H&T 143 - Revenue Officer (Court Team)

Hours: 21 hours per week

Working Pattern: Monday - Wednesday 8.45am - 4.45pm

Salary: £31,096.30 - £31,954.00 per year pro rata

Vacancy: Permanent

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An excellent development opportunity has arisen for an experienced individual to join the council’s Court Team, responsible for providing an in-house service for raising Court actions for recovery of possession of Council tenancies in relation to rent arrears. The Court Team is also responsible for the management of former tenant rent arrears recovery.

As an Officer within the Court Team, you will have responsibility for effective collection of current and former tenancy rent arrears, including raising simple procedures cases and proceeding to diligence. You will provide guidance and assistance to team members. You will also contribute to the development of procedures to ensure continuous improvement. As an officer within the court Team will you will also be required to attend and represent South Lanarkshire Council at Lanark, Hamilton and Glasgow Sheriff Courts.

The successful applicant will have excellent communication skills and the ability to work with a wide variety of people including Courts, Sheriff Officers, Solicitors, Local Area Teams, and other internal and external partners/agencies.

As an Officer within the Court Team, you should have significant experience of working in challenging environment and will be required to interview tenants under threat of eviction and provide advice and assistance.

Excellent IT skills are required as well as having the ability to work to deadlines, with the ability to organise and prioritise your own workload.

When completing the application process please ensure that you cover the following areas:

• Please provide evidence of your experience and achievements in the five specific behaviours framework. 'Efficient, Flexible, Leading, Working with Others and Performing?
• Please provided evidence of your experience in a Debt Recovery/Legal environment

Please note we do not accept CVs, any submitted will be disregarded. If you require to submit additional information to support your application, please upload this under supporting documents.

Please apply online - All correspondence will be via your email address.

Legislative Information

This post is excepted in terms of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 2003.

This post is considered Regulated Work with Children and/or adults, under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act, 2007. Therefore, it is an offence to apply if you are barred from working with children and/or adults.

Preferred candidates will be required to join the PVG Scheme, or undergo a PVG Scheme Update check, prior to a formal offer of employment being made.

Please refer to http://www.disclosurescotland.co.uk for further information about the disclosure process and best practice.

Foreign Police Check

Candidates should be able to detail any gaps in employment and provide a foreign police check where applicable for any periods living or working abroad.

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.

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
• 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)

South Lanarkshire Council signs Housing Professionalism Commitment

South Lanarkshire Council have signed up to the Chartered Institute of Housing Scotland’s, Housing Professional Commitment.

This commitment underlines the importance that we have always placed on developing our housing and homelessness teams to ensure they have the skills and knowledge they need to enable them to effectively carry out their roles and to develop professionally.