Salary: £27,273 - £45,815 per year
Contract Type: Temporary
Position Type: Full Time
Hours: 36.25 hours per week
Work From Home: Hybrid
Job Description
Based at Supported Housing, Provost Johnston Rd, Montrose, covering the Angus area.
This job is workstyle 4 - Hybrid
You will benefit from flexible and agile working practices, working from council buildings, service user locations, site visits, or from home to suit your work, meetings, and collaboration.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Housing Officer (Community Housing) to join the Community Housing Teams within Angus.
You will be responsible for:
1. Taking a proactive, person-centred approach by enabling, advising, assisting, and providing support to tenants and customers on housing options, tenancy matters, property and estate management, and rent accounts to sustain tenancies or make informed re-housing decisions, ensuring high customer service standards.
2. Playing a lead role in preventing homelessness by assessing housing and support needs of at-risk customers, referring to other services if needed, interpreting legislation and guidance, and ensuring statutory duties are met, including provision of temporary accommodation.
3. Managing lettings for mainstream, temporary accommodation, and travelling sites using the Common Allocations Policy and Community Based Lettings Plans, to meet customer needs and optimize stock use, minimizing void times.
4. Maintaining houses and estates, ensuring compliance with tenancy and occupancy conditions.
5. Building and maintaining good relationships with tenants, residents, other departments, services, agencies, and professionals to promote safe, secure, and stable communities.
6. Providing out-of-hours services on a rota, including emergency repairs and civil contingencies support.
This temporary role is until no later than 13 August 2026.
Internal and external secondment applications are welcome with managerial approval.
We support agile and flexible working arrangements, which can be discussed during recruitment.
Interviews are scheduled for Monday, 23 June 2025.
Requirements
Please refer to the job outline and person specification for detailed requirements.
We are open to discussing flexible working options during recruitment. We also offer guaranteed interviews for applicants with disabilities, caring responsibilities, or care-experienced young people who meet essential criteria.
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