Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: 37 per week
Worker Type: Onsite Worker
Salary: Starting Salary is £36,363 (Level one) rising to £39,152 per annum ‘pro rata for part-time’
Location: Housing Solutions, Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3NG
We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…
Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.
In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.
* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council .
About the Role
The post holder is responsible for supporting the Prevention and Assessment Manager in matters of housing advice casework, helping prevent homelessness and acting to ensure that the City Council fulfils its legal and safeguarding requirements to Citizens in housing need or crisis. This will include evaluating; citizen need assessment, housing advice, homelessness prevention and deciding homelessness duties in accordance the Housing Act 1996 VII ( as amended). Having oversight of casework at all stages, providing technical advice and ensuring that all decisions are dealt with in accordance with legislation, Council policy, and statutory deadlines
About You
The ideal candidate will have:
· Comprehensive and up to date working knowledge of Homelessness and associated legislation and able to advise colleagues and decide any duties owed to citizens for the Authority
· Ability to supervise and support staff on a day to day basis to deliver a customer facing service, providing technical advice on a range of homelessness issues
· Ability to effectively manage a complex workload under pressure meeting specified targets and deadlines whilst demonstrating attention to detail, prioritisation and self-organisation skills
· Experience of dealing with legal challenge from advocates and customer complaints
· Ability to be creative, to be able to identify problems and work to create solutions
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
The role requires you to participate in the on call rota.
his post is covered by the statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) (English Language Requirement for public sector workers) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English, is an essential requirement for the role.
You can find the job description for this post .
At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the for applicants page.
For informal enquiries please contact Emma James, Prevention & Assessment Manager by email or Joseph Muir, Prevention & Assessment Manager by email .
Closing Date: 08 February 2026
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held: Friday 13 February 2026
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