Housing Support Officer - EAY12406

Job Description Provide tenancy information, guidance, support and advocacy to prospective tenants to assist with the promotion, delivery and integration of the Council’s key objectives specifically in relation to the Community Plan, Shared commitments, Single Outcome Agreement and Best Value.

Requirements The duties of the post involve Regulated Work with children and/or protected adults, as specified in the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007.

Successful applicants for such posts will be required to become a Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme member in respect of Regulated Work with either or both of these groups as appropriate, or if they are already a Scheme member, be subject to a PVG Scheme Record Update, before any formal offer of employment can be made by East Ayrshire Council.

Please note:- PVG members' records are constantly updated with any new vetting information that arises.

Any information that is disclosed on a PVG Scheme Record or Scheme Record Update, if relevant to the post being applied for, will be discussed with the applicant prior to any formal offer of employment being made.

Responsibilities If you apply for this post, please add the following email address to your safe sender list to ensure that any My Job Scotland related e-mail’s go directly to your inbox - noreply@myjobscotland. gov. uk.

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References: We follow the national guidance in relation to pre-employment checks namely “Safer Recruitment Through Better Recruitment”.

With regards to requests for references and in line with this guidance, during your application process you should provide details of a minimum of two appropriate and relevant references, one of which should be from your current or most recent employer.

It is also a requirement that the reference from your current or most recent employer is from an appropriate senior manager and it is not a reference from a former peer operating at the same level.

The Individual This is a permanent full time post and the admin base is the Opera House, Kilmarnock.

The hours of work is 35 hours per week working: Monday to Thursday 9am to 5pm and Friday 9am to 4pm.

The annual salary for the post is £29,666 - £31,614 per annum.

The workstyle for this post is ‘Mobile’ - 20-49% of your time in an office or other work location.

You will work at your administrative base or another agreed office location between 1 to 2.5 days per week and the remainder of the week at home or other work locations as required.

It is the expectation that all office-based employees (with the exception of those working in schools) will work to the higher end of their allocated workstyle in terms of time spent in the office or at other work locations.

East Ayrshire Council is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcomes applications from all members of the community.

We encourage applicants from underrepresented groups including Black and Minority Ethnic people, disabled people and LGBT people.

We are also keen to decrease occupational segregation and so encourage women to apply for managerial posts and/or roles in which they are underrepresented.

East Ayrshire Council is a Disability Confident employer and a Recruit with Conviction Ambassador.

To be considered for interview, candidates must demonstrate on the application that they meet all essential criteria of the attached job specification.

If you require further information please contact alexander. rae@east-ayrshire. gov. uk