H&T 471 - Housing Services Manager - 402222

Hours: 35 hours per week

Working Pattern Monday - Thursday 8.45am - 4.45pm and Friday 8.45am - 4.15pm

Salary - £50,878.21- £55,659.45

Vacancy - Permanent

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Location: Hamilton

South Lanarkshire Council is one of the largest and most progressive local authorities in Scotland.

Housing Services deliver a range of quality services to 25,000 tenants within the South Lanarkshire area. Our local housing teams provide services directly and in partnership with others, including tenancy and estate management; homelessness and housing support; allocations and void management; preventing and tackling anti social behaviour; rent arrears collection and management.

An exciting opportunity has arisen at our Hamilton Area Office for a full time Housing Services Manager to lead a highly motivated team providing day-to-day housing management and homelessness services.

You will lead a multi disciplined team in a dynamic environment and you will be committed to constantly improving services to meet challenging targets and obtain best value for our customers.

You will be a self motivated and confident professional with a proven track record in delivering results. You will be required to demonstrate an up-to-date knowledge of housing and homelessness policy and practice and you will preferably be qualified to Housing Diploma Level.

In return you will be part of a forward thinking organisation that values its staff and customers which will afford you the opportunity for personal and service development potential.

As part of our approach to good practice and safer recruitment we carry out a number of pre-employment checks for example, Identity, Asylum and Immigration and employment history etc.

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

• Can you please provide evidence of your experience and achievements in the five specific behaviours framework - Efficient, Flexible, Performing, Working with Others and Leading?. 
• Can you please evidence the experience you have in Managing People, particularly in the context of housing and homelessness team (s)?

Please Apply online

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. 

Preferred candidates will be required to complete a PVG check, prior to a formal offer of employment being made by South Lanarkshire Council.

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

All correspondence will be via your email address.

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

• 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)