Housing Supervisor - North East Locality Office - 11880_1760442736

The City of Edinburgh Council; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government body in Edinburgh is seeking a Housing Supervisor to manage a diverse team and ensure high-quality housing services. The ideal candidate has significant social housing experience, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to customer care. This role offers a salary of £33,287 - £39,129 for 36 hours per week.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a social housing role within a housing association, council or similar organisation.
• Excellent knowledge of social housing, property management and homelessness.
• Leadership skills to lead a diverse team.

Responsibilities

• Put customers first and respond sensitively to their concerns.
• Supervise Housing Assistants and ensure properties are maintained to a high standard.

Job description

Job Title

Housing Supervisor

Location and Compensation

North East Locality Office, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Salary: £33,287 - £39,129
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks per year.

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Housing Supervisor position in The City of Edinburgh Council's Temporary Accommodation Service. You will be a housing professional with significant experience in a social housing role within a housing association, council or similar organisation. With an excellent knowledge of social housing, property management and homelessness, coupled with a passion and track record for delivering high quality work within a limited timescale; you will have the leadership skills and motivation to lead a diverse team of Homelessness Mobile Wardens who work in our void properties to bring them back to a high standard to enable them to be let out to our homeless clients. You will also supervise Housing Assistants who are responsible for a range of admin tasks to ensure all properties are set up on our Internal Housing Systems and any specialist works are carried out in a timely manner.

Responsibilities

You will put your customers first, respect and understand their concerns and needs when delivering services to them and inspire confidence and respect in your customers for you and the service you work for. You will be sensitive and responsive to the needs of all your customers, many of whom may experience significant challenges in their lives.

Qualifications

Please ensure you fully review the person specification before submitting your application – if your application fails to demonstrate you meet the essential criteria for the post it is unlikely you will be invited for interview.

Regulated Work and Participants' Protection

This post is considered Regulated Work with Vulnerable Children and/or Protected Adults, under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. Preferred candidates will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG scheme update check prior to a formal offer of employment being made by the City of Edinburgh Council.

Diversity and Inclusion

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.

Interview Assessment

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.

Behaviour and Values

Our Behaviours web page: https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/behaviours

Compensation Overview

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

Flexible Working

Happy to talk flexible working.

Contact

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