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Housing Management Officer

companyFife Council
locationInverkeithing KY11, UK
PublishedPublished: Published today
Housing / Neighbourhood management
Job Description

Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing 27 January 2025

Closing Date: Sunday 19 January 2025

Contract Type: Permanent & Temporary (6 Vacancies available)

Salary: FC6 £28,508,69 - £32,437.03 (Pro-Rata)

Working Pattern: 36 Hours per week (Part-time positions available)

Location: Fife Wide

Supporting Statement

As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked 'upload resumé'. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement

Job Details

Good Housing impacts on so many aspects of our daily lives. As well as being a basic human right, it also encourages a sense of community, helps economies to thrive and creates an environment which people want to protect.

We need you to help us meet our aim to provide everyone with access to good quality, affordable decent housing that meets their needs and aspirations. We want to improve the quality of life for people across Fife and we work with many different organisations, including tenants groups, to try to make that happen.

As a Housing Management Officer, you will form part of an Area Housing Team that delivers on improved services. You will be responsible for a specific neighbourhood, ensuring high quality, well-run estates through the assessment of need of individuals, properties and neighbourhoods, followed by the development of solutions which range from prescribed processes to self-developed initiatives. You will deliver high quality landlord services to build stable communities by sustaining tenancies and engaging with customers and partners to make required improvements. You will be able to provide high standards of Customer Care while encouraging local people to maintain Estate Standards.

The positions available as shown below:

Permanent Positions -

  • 1 X 36 hours per week in Cowdenbeath.
  • 1 X 36 hours per week in South West Fife.
Temporary Positions, including but not limited to -

  • 1 X 36 hours per week in Levenmouth (Maternity cover) until August 2025.
  • 1 X 36 hours per week in Levenmouth until January 2026.
  • 1 X 36 hours per week in Kirkcaldy until March 2025.
  • 1 X 36 hours per week in North East Fife until March 2025.
The Person

We are looking for an individual who has knowledge of the Scottish Secure and Short Scottish Secure Tenancies and who has experience of working with a range of Supports available to tenants. You will have experience of partnership working when managing tenancies. You will be committed to assisting tenants to sustain their tenancy, while also taking action against any breaches of tenancy.

  • You will need good time management, communications and organisational skills.
  • You will possess good IT Skills.
  • You will be educated to SCQF level 5 or equivalent and you will require (if you do not already hold this) to undertake the SVQ4 in Housing and Home point 2 qualifications.
Before confirming to your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme.

Further Information

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For further information, please contact: Leanne Dunn at Leanne.dunn@fife.gov.uk