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Hours: 17.5 hours per week
Working Pattern: Monday, Tuesday 8.45am - 4.45pm, Wednesday 8.45am - 12.15pm
Salary: £18,212 - £18,732 per year
Vacancy: Permanent
View the Gypsy/Traveller Site Assistant job profile
Housing and Technical Resources have a proven track record in delivering an excellent service to the Gypsy Traveller community at our two sites in Larkhall and East Kilbride.
An exciting opportunity has now arisen for an experienced individual to join our team in delivering this service to our East Kilbride site.
As a Gypsy Traveller Site Assistant, you will be responsible for successfully managing the Gypsy Traveller site on a daily basis, liaising with the Gypsy Traveller community and agencies and contributing to Gypsy Traveller issues within the Council.
You should ideally have experience of working with the Gypsy Traveller community and have an understanding of the current issues, legislation and best practice in this area.
Your responsibilities will include ensuring sites are maintained and meet all legislative requirements including health and safety, acting as an advocate for tenants and other members of Gypsy Traveller community, contributing to good practice locally and nationally, dealing with unauthorised encampments as they occur, encouraging Tenant Participation with Council Services.
We are seeking an individual who is dynamic and self-motivated with the ability to work on their own initiative. You should demonstrate excellent communication skills, and the ability to liaise effectively with a wide variety of agencies and networks. You must have the ability to organise and prioritise your workload in an effective way and adapt to changing priorities as required in delivering a quality service.
As part of your duties, you will be expected to assist the East Kilbride Homeless Team with the management of their temporary accommodation voids. This will include carrying out inspections of properties and being available to carry out any duties as required by the team in relation to their temporary accommodation.
This role will involve travel throughout the South Lanarkshire area. You will be eligible to participate in South Lanarkshire Council's Car Pool Scheme as it would be advantageous to have access to a vehicle for business purposes when required to travel to alternative locations.
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 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.
Preferred candidates identified after the selection event process will be required to assist the recruitment team, if need be, to ensure timely completion of recruitment checks. If recruitment checks are not completed within a reasonable timescale you may automatically be withdrawn from this position.
Canvassing of Elected Members or employees of South Lanarkshire's Council directly or indirectly in connection with any appointment within the Council shall disqualify the applicant.
Legislative Information
This post is excepted in terms of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 2003.
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
* 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)
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.