Housing Officer

**Housing Officer (Homelessness)**:

- Date: 11 Apr 2025
- Job Location: Gloucester

This is a Gloucester City Council job.
- Job Title: Housing Officer (Homelessness)
- Job Location: Gloucester City Council
- Salary: £29,572 - £31,586 per annum (pro rata)
- Hours per Week: 22.00
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Closing Date: 05/05/2025
- Job Requisition Number: 11179
- This post is not open to job share

We are a dynamic local authority providing essential services to the people of Gloucester.

Our main office, based in the Eastgate Centre on Eastgate Street in the heart of the city, is an accessible, modern and light space designed for collaborative working and finding new ways to work. It's all open plan, with a living green wall and other plants without set desks, so you can sit next to someone new every day. We're always looking to improve how we work and we offer flexible and agile working to give our people a great work life balance.

**About the Role**

Do you want to join a busy organisation and multifaceted housing services team dedicated to helping those in housing need.

**What we need from you**

The council is committed to supporting on-going development through coaching mentoring as well a formal training and professional development

**What we can do for you**
- We offer a range of attractive benefits including:

- Generous Annual Leave entitlement 25 days annual leave.
- An option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year.
- 2 days paid leave every year to participate in local volunteering activities.
- Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) & Life Cover of 3 times your salary
- Regular Training, career development and qualification opportunities.
- Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision.
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone, and an in-house Occupational Health service.
- Enhanced family friendly leave and pay.
- Cycle to Work scheme (Salary Sacrifice -T&C apply).
- Coming Soon - Car Scheme (Salary Sacrifice -T&C apply).
- Employee discount scheme.
- Discounted tickets for local events, and reduced rate use of GL1 Leisure facilities
- Free Flu-jabs
- Access to employee led networks such as Black Worker’s, Prism (LGBT+), Carers, Disability and the Young Employees Network, and opportunities to participate in our Equalities Working Group.

**How to apply**

**Additional Information**

To access the Job Profile, please follow the link below:

- Housing Officer (Homelessness) - Job Profile

Gloucester City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

**Equality and Diversity**
We recognise the positive value of equality and diversity and pride ourselves on growing a high-performing workforce that is diverse, skilled and talented; that represents the community it serves.

We aim to recruit a diverse pool of talent and will recruit the person who is most suited to the job without regard to their race, colour, religion or belief, age, nationality, ethnicity, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, caring responsibilities or disability.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.