Housing Officer - (Prevention & Partnership), Homeless Prevention and Housing Options Team

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Housing Officer - (Prevention & Partnership), Homeless Prevention and Housing Options Team
8 West Pilton Gardens

Salary: £28,854 - £34,057 per year
Hours: 36 per week

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 Prevention & Partnership Housing Officer to support and strengthen partnership working between Homelessness Services and partners throughout the city. The Prevention & Partnership Officer will create & deliver training to partners to assist in identifying the early risk of homelessness and look at the best possible outcome with a preventative approach.

The Prevention & Partnership Housing Officer 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 training and identifying gaps in knowledge that will reduce the potential threat of homelessness.

The Prevention & Partnership Housing Officer will fulfil the Council’s duties by working to legislative and good practice requirements and incollaboration with many other statutory services and partner organisations.

This role requires you to display resilience on a daily basis and the ability to take ownership and responsibility of applicable tasks, keeping up to date with current legislation and legislative changes in order 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.

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.

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

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