Housing Officer (Community Housing) - ANG05902

Based at Provost Johnston Road Supported Housing, Provost Johnston Road, Montrose. This job is Workstyle 4 – Hybrid. You will have the opportunity to benefit from our flexible and agile working practices. This means you will work from a variety of locations, including council buildings, service user’s locations, site visits, and from home to best suit your work, meetings, and collaboration.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Housing Officer (Community Housing) to join the Community Housing Team within Angus. You will be responsible for a challenging but rewarding remit that includes:

• Taking a proactive person-centred approach by enabling, advising, assisting, and providing specific support to tenants and other customers on housing options, tenancy matters, property and estate management, and rent accounts in order to sustain their tenancy or to make an informed choice about their re-housing, ensuring a high standard of customer service.
• Playing a lead role in the prevention of homelessness by comprehensively assessing housing, support, and other needs of customers at risk of becoming homeless, referring on to other services if necessary, to ensure those needs are met and by interpreting legislation, relevant national guidance (Code of Guidance and Housing Options Guidance), and service standards and making decisions based on this to ensure that the council meets its statutory duties including the provision of temporary accommodation, where required.
• Being responsible for lettings for mainstream, temporary accommodation, and travelling sites using the Common Allocations Policy and Community Based Lettings Plans, Section 5 referrals, and nominations securing accommodation to meet customers’ assessed needs and making best use of the overall stock within Angus and minimising void times.
• Ensuring the continued and effective maintenance of houses (including furnishings) and the estates that they are within, as well as ensuring compliance with both tenancy and occupancy conditions.
• Establishing, developing, and maintaining good working relationships with tenants, tenant groups, other residents, other departments, services, and a range of agencies and professionals to provide safe, secure, and stable communities.
• Providing an out of hours service as part of a rota including emergency repairs and assisting, where required, with the administration of Civil Contingencies.

This job is temporary for up to 12 months from the date of appointment. You will be placed on the salary scale according to your qualifications and/or experience, as outlined in the attached career grade structure. As this is a temporary post, you will not be eligible to progress through the stages of the career grade structure. Internal and external applications on a secondment basis will be considered. You must have the approval of your line manager/organisation.

Please note interviews will be held Tuesday, 30 December 2025.

Requirements: You must have the ability to become a member of the PVG Scheme. Please refer to the job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.

About Angus Council: In addition, please refer to the "applicant guidance" document when completing your application form and to the "welcome to Angus" document and our website for more information about working for Angus Council.

The Individual: We are happy to discuss flexible working during the recruitment process for this position. This means we are open to a conversation about working patterns and the flexibility that is available for this role whilst managing the workload.

We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job: Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities, care experienced young people, and ex-armed forces personnel. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships, and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.