Housing Options Officer
- Recruiter
- Mendip District Council
- Location
- Somerset
- Salary
- £17,012 - £25,339 per annum (subject to grading review and experience)
- Posted
- 23 Mar 2017
- Closes
- 10 Apr 2017
- Sectors
- Construction & Skilled Trades, Surveying
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Housing Options Officer (37 hours per week)
£17,012 - £25,339 per annum (subject to grading review and experience)
We are looking to recruit a Housing Options Officer to help us deliver a comprehensive homelessness and housing advice service to customers across the district, in accordance with current legislation and good practice. We are a busy and committed service that promotes career development and provides strong support to staff undertaking training.
If you are looking for a new opportunity where every day brings a different challenge, you enjoy meeting new people from a wide variety of backgrounds, and feel you have good negotiation skills, interpersonal skills and a willingness to learn in a performance driven team, then this could be the opportunity for you. If you want to be part of our team we need you to:
- Be a team player to play a full part in our service improvement.
- Be committed to delivering a quality housing options service to our customers.
- Have a minimum of 2 ‘A' Levels, NVQ Level 3 or equivalent qualification or relevant experience.
The position is career graded so you will be required to undertake a course of study via the Chartered Institute of Housing. The post will be subject to a disclosure request through the Disclosure and Barring Service.
As well as those with experience, we also invite applications from people new to this field to undertake the role as a trainee (salary according to experience).
Further details and an application pack can be obtained from our website by clicking apply.
Closing date for applications is Friday, 7 April 2017