H&t 1396

LOCATION:
East Kilbride Area Office, Civic Centre, East Kilbride, G74 1AB

SALARY:
£31,096 - £31,954 per year

CONTRACT TYPE:
Permanent

POSITION TYPE:
Full Time

HOURS:
35 hours per week

**Vacancy**: Permanent

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for experienced individual to join the East Kilbride Housing Team within Housing Services. As a Housing Officer you will be responsible for delivering a wide range of housing services to our customers therefore, you should have similar experience of working within a housing related environment and have an understanding of current issues and legislation in relation to homelessness, allocations, estate management, rent recovery and dealing with anti
- social behaviour. Excellent IT skills are required as well as the ability to organise and prioritise workload in an effective way and to respond and adapt to changing priorities required in delivering a quality service. You should possess excellent communication skills and have the ability to liaise effectively with a variety of agencies.
- **Please provide evidence of your experience and achievements in the five specific behaviours framework. 'Efficient, Flexible, Leading, Working with Others and Performing’.**:

- **Please outline your understating of homelessness legislation.**:

- **Please explain your experience of working in a reactive role managing your own caseload.**:

- **Please explain what experience you have of dealing with vulnerable people.**:

- **South Lanarkshire Council are committed to delivering excellent customer service. Please describe how you would ascertain and manage client expectations, while still delivering excellent customer service.**

**Legislative Information**

This post is excepted in terms of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 2003.

**Foreign Police Check**

**Equal Opportunities and Armed Forces Community Covenant**

South Lanarkshire Council is committed to providing support to members of the armed forces, veterans and their families which is set out in the Armed Forces Community Covenant. Veterans are guaranteed an interview who meet the minimum requirements for the position.

As an employee of South Lanarkshire Council you would also receive a wide range of benefits including:

- Enrolment in award winning local government pension scheme
- Up to 33 days annual leave
- Public holiday entitlement (up to 10 days)
- Occupational sick pay
- Family friendly policies - flexible working and leave, maternity/paternity leave enhanced leave.
- Employee Discounts - including discounts at the cinema.
- Range of benefits to support you (Cycle to Work Scheme, Physiotherapy, Employee Assistance Program which offers practical and emotional support)

**South Lanarkshire Council signs Housing Professionalism Commitment**

South Lanarkshire Council have signed up to the Chartered Institute of Housing Scotland’s, Housing Professional Commitment.

This commitment underlines the importance that we have always placed on developing our housing and homelessness teams to ensure they have the skills and knowledge they need to enable them to effectively carry out their roles and to develop professionally.