SLA11764 – Housing Officer (SHORE) – SLA11764 Full Time & Part Time

Job Description

Location: Council Offices, Hamilton

Two post being recruited for:

• 14 hours permanent post
• 35 hours fixed term post for 1 year.

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an two experienced individuals to join the Sustainable Housing on Release for Everyone (SHORE) team within Hamilton.

As a Housing Officer you will be responsible for delivering a wide range of housing services to our customers therefore, you should have 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.

This post will be involved in providing face to face housing options advice to prisoners within HMP Barlinnie and HMP Addiewell, ensuring tenancy sustainment where possible or developing housing plans to prevent homelessness. The Housing Officer will require to undertake training within the prison establishments which will include personal protection training. The Housing Officer will then provide housing options casework and plan for a positive housing outcome.

This is a developing role and will require an individual with excellent communication skills and ability to network with key partners. Involvement with other prison establishments is likely to be required, however due to the geographical nature this may be by telephone.

You will also be responsible for ensuring compliance of policy and procedures by monitoring and auditing information and ensuring that complaints are processed according to standards.

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.

As part of our approach to good practice and safer recruitment we carry out a number of pre-employment checks for example, Identity, Asylum and Immigration and employment history.

Preferred candidates will be required to complete a Basic Disclosure check carried out be Disclosure Scotland, prior to a formal offer of employment being made by South Lanarkshire Council. Please refer to www.disclosurescotland.co.uk/publications/ and click on Code of Practice for further information about the disclosure process and best practice.

Requirements

You will be eligible to participate in South Lanarkshire Council’s Car Pool Scheme as it would be advantageous to have access to a vehicle for business purposes if required to travel to alternative locations.

Additional information for Internal Applicants:

As one of the posts is a Temporary position, prior to making your application, please discuss your potential application with your current Line Manager. In the event that you are being considered for this post, your release to undertake this internal fixed term opportunity would need to be agreed in advance and managed by the service/s or resource/s.

Please Apply online

All correspondence will be via your email address registered with myjobscotland.

Equal Opportunities and Armed Forces Community Covenant

South Lanarkshire Council is an Equal Opportunities employer and encourages applications from all members of the community. As a user of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum competency/behaviour requirements for the position.

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.

The Individual

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)