Housing Officer - (Prevention & Partnership), Homeless Prevention and Housing Options Team - EDN29497

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Prevention & Partnership Housing Officer Homeless Prevention and Housing Options Team
City Chambers

Salary: £32,010- £37,626 per year
Hours: 36 per week

The City of Edinburgh Council’s Homelessness Prevention and Housing Options Team (HP&HOT) is at the frontline of tackling homelessness in Edinburgh.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Prevention & Partnership Housing Officer to support and strengthen partnership working between Homelessness Services and partners throughout the city. The Prevention & Partnership Officer will create & deliver training to partners to assist in identifying the early risk of homelessness and look at the best possible outcome with a preventative approach.

The Prevention & Partnership Housing Officer will work in a statutory service and be fully responsible for identifying new and existing partners who currently work with those at risk of homelessness, delivering training and identifying gaps in knowledge that will reduce the potential threat of homelessness.

The Prevention & Partnership Housing Officer will fulfil the Council’s duties by working to legislative and good practice requirements and incollaboration with many other statutory services and partner organisations.

This role requires you to display resilience on a daily basis and the ability to take ownership and responsibility of applicable tasks, keeping up to date with current legislation and legislative changes in order to provide accurate learning and training packages to our wider partners. The successful candidate will therefore have a proven track record of working with a multi-agency approach in the prevention of homelessness.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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