Housing Supervisor - North East Locality Office

Housing Supervisor - Managed Units
Various Locations

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

The City of Edinburgh Council operate 5 hostels across the city and Housing Supervisors provide a vital service in each project by directly supporting our residents, many of whom have a history trauma and/or complex emotional and mental health needs.

Housing Supervisors work with our residents concentrating on building positive and supportive relationships as well as creating a sense of community. The goal is to enable the resident to maximise their own resources and ability to live independently so that they can successfully maintain a permanent tenancy when they leave our service.

The work can be challenging, and this requires staff to be emotionally resilient, understanding and committed to supporting residents who display challenging behaviour.

Housing Supervisors also manage a team of unit wardens who work a 24-hour shift pattern and are responsible for supporting residents during their day to day lives as well as cleaning and preparing rooms/flats when residents move on.

We welcome applications from individuals with lived experience of using homelessness or recovery services.

This is an exciting opportunity for anyone who is passionate about delivering a great service and improving the lives of Edinburgh's most vulnerable citizens,

Please ensure you fully review the person specification before submitting your application - if your application fails to demonstrate you meet the essential criteria for the post it is unlikely you will be invited for interview.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

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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