H&T 506 - Housing Officer (SHORE)

Hours: 35 hours per week

Working Pattern: Monday to Friday

Salary: £27,245 - £31,954 per year

Vacancy: Temporary until 16 December 2025

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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.

Do you have experience of working in a prison or criminal justice environment?

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.

Do you have excellent IT skills and are you organised and able to prioritise your workload?

The post requires excellent IT skills along with the ability to organise and prioritise your workload in an effective way. The ability to be flexible and to be able to respond and adapt to changing priorities is required in delivering a quality service.

Are you a good communicator?

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. It is therefore important for this role that you possess excellent communication skills and have the ability to liaise effectively with a variety of service users, other public bodies and third sector agencies.

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.

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.