Housing Assessors Homelessness

3 months ago

Dorchester, United Kingdom Dorset Council Full time

**About The Role**:
The Housing Options team is a busy statutory frontline service which seeks to sympathetically yet robustly assist those households who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. You will have the support of a number of different teams based within the service to help you deliver the best options for our customers.

This post offers the flexibility of working in a hybrid way. There is the option to have an office base as well as working from home.

**Are you skilled in professional relationships?**

**Are you customer-orientated with exceptional communication skills?**

**Do you have an eye for detail?**

We require individuals with a keen attention to detail, capable of gathering, collating, and analysing information efficiently and meticulously. If you have a talent for uncovering the facts and piecing together information to inform decisions, we want to hear from you.

**Can you excel under pressure?**

We are seeking resilient individuals who thrive in dynamic environments, demonstrating efficiency, empathy, and the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously. If you can maintain your composure and deliver results under tight deadlines, you could be a perfect fit for our team.

**Further Information**:
This is a full time role of 37 hours, although flexible working is considered.

It is fixed term for one year and is based at County Hall in Dorchester, combined with home working.

**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 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.

If the advert is internal please add the following:
Additional Information

This vacancy is being advertised internally to:

- our employees
- agency workers currently working for us
- casual workers currently working for us

Employees working within a school are not considered internal applicants.

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.

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