Housing Casework Supervisor

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 37hours

Worker Type: Onsite Worker

Salary: Starting Salary is £36,363 (Level one) rising to £39,152 (Level four) ‘pro rata for part-time’ (pay award pending)

Location:Housing Solutions, Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3NG

We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.

* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.

About the Role

We are looking for a confident and knowledgeable Housing Casework Supervisor to support the delivery of high-quality housing advice, homelessness prevention and statutory homelessness services. You will provide technical advice and casework supervision to colleagues, oversee complex housing cases, support decision- making under homelessness legislation, and help ensure citizens receive timely, effective and person-centred support. This is a key role in maintaining quality, managing risk, improving practice and working with partners to achieve positive housing outcomes for people in housing need or crisis.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

• Comprehensive and up to date working knowledge of Homelessness and associated legislation and able to advise colleagues and decide any duties owed to citizens for the Authority
• Ability to supervise and support staff on a day to day basis to deliver a customer facing service, providing technical advice on a range of homelessness issues
• Ability to be creative, to be able to identify problems and work to create solutions
• Good working knowledge of safeguarding
• Experience of dealing with legal challenge from advocates and customer complaints
• An understanding of why it’s important to consider equality, diversity, and inclusion in all that we do.

This post is covered by the statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) (English Language Requirement for public sector workers) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English, is an essential requirement for the role.

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post

The role requires you to participate in the on call rota.

You can find the job description for this post here.

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.

For informal enquiriesplease contact Emma James, Prevention & Assessment Manager by email at emma.james@nottinghamcity.gov.uk or Craig White, Prevention & Assessment Manager by email at craig.white@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

Closing Date: 6th September 2026

Interviews will be held:TBC

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