Housing Advisor (Maternity Cover) Job at Hamilton Full Time NEW

Hours: 35 hours per week, fixed term until 31 March 2027 Monday – Thursday 8.45am – 4.45pm, Friday 8.45am – 4.15pm An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced individual to join the Sustainable Housing on Release for Everyone (SHORE) team within Central Homelessness Team. Do you have experience of working in a housing related environment? As a Housing Officer you will be responsible for delivering a wide range of housing services to our customers, you should therefore 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 includes personal protection training. The Housing Officer role in this situation is to provide housing options advice and assistance and plan for positive housing outcomes for the households they are working with. Do you have experience of working with policies and procedures? You will be responsible for ensuring compliance with policy and procedures, there is considerable monitoring and auditing of casework of service delivery. Furthermore, the Housing Officer has responsibility to take and process any complaints received according to procedure and standards. The ability to be flexible and to be able to respond and adapt to changing priorities is required in delivering a quality service. This is a developing role and will require an individual with excellent communication skills and ability to network with key partners. There may be a number of prison establishments that you will be required to engage with both in person and be telephone. Please Apply online – All correspondence will be via your email address This post is considered a Regulated Role with Adults, in respect of the Disclosure Scotland Act 2020. Therefore, it is an offence to apply if you are barred from working with Adults. Overseas Criminal Records Check An Overseas Criminal Records Check is required where applicants born outside the UK (Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland) or who have lived or worked outside the UK for a continuous period of three months in the past 10 years. Applicants are responsible for providing evidence of the Overseas Criminal Record Check. The check must be translated into English and should come from the police, judicial authority, government department or home embassy of the country or countries concerned. The check must include an official statement confirming that the applicant does not have any history of or pending criminal record proceedings. Equal Opportunities and Inclusion statement The Council is committed to fostering equality, diversity and inclusion in its workforce. Therefore, we welcome applications from all sectors of the community, including under-represented groups within our workforce. We are keen to receive applications from candidates who have a disability, who are from a care experienced background, who are from a black, Asian or minority ethnic background, from a military service background and from those who are new Scots. As a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria as outlined in the job profile for this position. As proud holders of the UK Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award, the Council is also committed to supporting members of the armed forces community, including service leavers, veterans, reservists and their families. Enrolment in award winning local government pension scheme To increase the value of their pension pot, Local Government Employees can opt to join the Salary Sacrifice Shared Cost AVC 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)