Housing Officer - Home Accessibility Referral Team (HART)

Housing Officer - Fixed term until 30/4/2027
Home Accessibility Referral Team (HART)

Salary: £34,452 - £40,501
Hours: 36 per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Home Accessibility Referral Team (HART) as an Assessment Officer.

The role of HART is to assess housing applicants who have mobility issues, to ensure that they are awarded Gold Priority in order to access social housing that meets their needs. Due to an increase in the number of applicants that are also assessed as homeless, the team is expanding to include an additional Assessment Officer to ensure that applicants with mobility issues can be assessed as quickly as possible and supported to access a home that meets their needs.

To take this work forward, there is a fixed term opportunity to join HART as an Assessment Officer for 12 months.

Tasks and activities of the HART Assessment Officer include:

• Screening EdIndex forms to establish if housing applicants meet the criteria for Gold Priority
• Undertaking housing needs assessments for applicants that meet the criteria
• Liaising with the HART Occupational Therapists around assessed needs and recommendations on property types
• Supporting applicants to access suitable homes
• Nominating applicants for accessible Council homes during the current Allocations Policy suspension
• Providing housing options advice
• Managing a caseload
• Working as part of a closely knit team to develop and improve service delivery

• Joint working with partner agencies to get the best outcomes for clients

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone feels valued and able to be their best. We particularly encourage applications from women for senior roles, as well as people from minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities or neurodivergent people, care experienced people, carers and LGBT+ people across all levels of the organisation, all of whom are currently underrepresented. All applicants will be considered fairly based on skills and experience. Disabled and care-experienced applicants who meet the minimum job criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

Find out more about our commitment to equalities https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/inclusive-edinburgh/4

As part of our goal to improve organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure we're recruiting the best people. We're interested not only in your skills and experience but also in your approach to work. Therefore, part of our interview process will be an assessment of 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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