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Place – Housing & Homelessness
Housing Officer – Recharge Officer
Waverley Court
Salary: £32,010 – £37,626
Hours: 36 per week
We have an exciting opportunity for highly motivated and experienced individuals to join Locality Housing Teams as a recharge officer.
Working as part of a Housing Locality Management Team, the post holders will be responsible for assessing locality Emergency Repairs undertaken in mixed tenure blocks affecting Council homes in line with the Tenements (Scotland) Act 2004, interpretating ownership and invoicing costs with owners through the Councils debt recovery process.
The Recharge Officer will be responsible for following the Operational Procedure for emergency works in mixed tenure blocks which will involve working closely with a number of colleagues within the locality including patch Housing Officers, Team Leaders and managers, as well as colleagues in Shared Repairs and Low Rise mixed tenure teams.
Candidates must be able to use their own initiative, be innovative in their approach and be able to use strong communication skills when dealing with both other colleagues, residents and home owners. The successful candidates will have knowledge and an understanding of Housing legislation, repairs and housing management. Training in this role will also be provided.
If you are someone who enjoys new opportunities and have skills demonstrating our behaviours – respect, integrity and flexibility as well as experience of being able to deal with changing demands, we would love to hear from you.
If you have any questions, or would like to discuss the post further, please get in touch with [email protected]
We’re committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Happy to talk flexible working.
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