Housing Enabling Officer

6 months ago


Dorchester, United Kingdom Dorset Council Full time

**About The Role**:
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to help increase the number of new affordable homes built in Dorset?

We are recruiting a Housing Enabling Officer to come and work at the Council to assist in the delivery of affordable homes.

You will be joining the Housing Enabling and Delivery Team. The team is small, friendly, dynamic and very supportive of one another. We value a collaborative approach and work to build strong relationships with our colleagues, customers and partner agencies.

This post will be based in our Dorchester office while offering the flexibility of working in a hybrid way, whilst maintaining great team ethic We have regular catch ups to share knowledge and information and use Microsoft Teams to communicate throughout the day, providing a network of support within the Housing Enabling Team.

**Further Information**:
This is a part time role at 30 hours per week.

This post requires significant travel. You must have a vehicle (or transport we deem suitable) available for use as needed.

**About Us**:
We’re passionate about making Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Working for us should be no exception.

At Dorset Council we:

- provide more than 450 services to over 300,000 residents
- have ambitious aspirations
- are excited about our future
- care about Dorset and all the people who live here
- know that all roles make a difference and that our employees are key to our success

You will:

- have access to a range of employee benefits
- be part of an organisation that supports each other to grow and succeed
- have access to range of training opportunities which will help with your personal development and career progression

We are challenging ourselves to become a more diverse and inclusive organisation.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We offer an interview to everyone who declares a disability and meets the essential criteria for the role.

We also look for applicants who share our commitment to our behaviours. We will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

This role is UK based and we will need to establish your Right to Work as part of the appointment process.

We use generic job descriptions and person specifications. This means the job title on any attachments may differ from the job title in the advert. We may provide specific information in a context statement if relevant.

Find out more about how to apply.



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