Housing Officer - City Chambers - 11377_1757402699
| Posting date: | 09 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £33,287.00 to £39,129.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 September 2025 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, EH1 1YP |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | The City of Edinburgh Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 11377_1757402699 |
Summary
Housing Officer - Homeless Prevention and Housing Options Team
City Chambers
Salary: £33,287 - £39,129
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks
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 a Prevention & Partnership Housing Officer to join the team to support and strengthen partnership working between Homelessness Services and partners throughout the city. You will create and deliver training to partners to assist in identifying the early indicators for those at risk of homelessness and look at the best possible outcome with a preventative approach.
You 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 prevention training and identifying gaps in knowledge that will reduce the potential threat of homelessness.
You will fulfil the Council's duties by working to legislative and good practice requirements and in collaboration with many other statutory services and partner organisations. The role requires you to display resilience daily and the ability to take ownership and responsibility of applicable tasks, keeping up to date with current legislation and legislative changes 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.
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.
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.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/behaviours" target="_blank">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.
Happy to talk flexible working.
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