Senior Housing Options Officer

Senior Housing Options Officer

 

Directorate:           Environmental and Community Services

Department:          Housing Services 

Hours:                   37 hours per week

Contract Status:    Permanent

Salary:                   Grade F £33,366 - £37,035 per year

Location:               Ilkeston Town Hall, Wharncliffe Road, Ilkeston, Derbyshire DE7 5RP

                              Hybrid working available

 

If you are passionate about preventing homelessness, this is your chance to manage a dynamic and creative team that is determined to enable people to stay in their own homes.

 

The Housing Options Team helps residents to keep their homes and to find a new one where this isn’t possible. It also manages temporary homes for residents without one and provides housing advice to help people to find and keep the right home for them.

 

Your emphasis will be on empowering, motivating and supporting your team to ensure that the focus is on customers and to develop and sustain high performance as well as high-quality housing advice and homelessness prevention services.

 

You will need:

• experience of working well as part of a team in a housing options service dealing with homelessness;
• experience of taking homeless applications, making enquiries and providing decision letters;
• experience of exploring and implementing housing options to prevent homelessness; and
• to be a Chartered Institute of Housing Certified Practitioner (CertCIH) and/or educated to HNC level in Housing/Social Policy and/or suitable relevant experience.

 

In this role there will be the need for occasional travel, mainly within the local area for which you will receive a casual car user allowance if you use your own transport.   Please see the job description and person specification for full details.

 

About Us

 

Erewash is a bustling borough in Derbyshire that is perfectly positioned between the vibrant cities of Derby and Nottingham.  With a blend of busy urban and beautiful rural scenes, Erewash enjoys strong and ongoing economic diversification and great transport links. So, it’s no surprise that our borough is a popular place to live, work and visit.

 

What do we offer?

 

• Generous annual leave package – 29 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years’ service) plus 8 bank holidays a year
• Casual Car Allowance
• Free workplace car parking within the Borough
• Opportunities for training, learning and continuous professional development
• Family friendly and flexible working policies available
• Option to join the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) plus access to a salary sacrifice scheme for added voluntary pension contributions
• Discounted leisure membership with the Fit for Work scheme
• Access to an employee benefits discount and salary sacrifice scheme.

 

If you would like more information about the job or if you would like more details about working at Erewash Borough Council, please contact Steven Shanahan, Housing Services Manager on 0115 8508313 or email steven.shanahan@erewash.gov.uk .  No recruitment companies or advertisers, please. 

 

The closing date for applications is 27 April 2025 at midnight. 

 

How to Apply

 

Interested candidates can apply with a CV and a supporting statement, clearly demonstrating suitability and experience for the role.  Please visit http://www.erewash.gov.uk/job-search

 

To submit a CV please click on the 'Apply Online' icon located at the foot of the page. You will be requested to provide some basic information before you upload your CV.

 

Alternatively, an application form and job description are available from Human Resources, Erewash Borough Council, Town Hall, Wharncliffe Road, Ilkeston, Derbyshire DE7 5RP. Telephone: 0115 931 6000 (24 hr. voicemail) or e-mail: jobs@erewash.gov.uk

 

If you are a current employee of Erewash Borough Council and you wish to apply for this vacancy, you must apply through your Employee Self Service account.  If you do not have access to Employee Self Service, you must complete a paper or word version of Erewash Borough Council’s job application form.

 

The Council is positive about disabled people and those who meet the essential shortlisting requirements will be guaranteed an interview.

 

The Council also supports the Armed Forces Covenant and those who have previously worked in the armed forces and meet the essential shortlisting criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

 

Please ensure that you make it clear on your application form that you wish to be considered under these criteria.