North Lanarkshire Council is leading an exciting and ambitious regeneration programme for its town centres and surrounding areas as part of its plans for inclusive economic growth. Working with a variety of partners, the Enterprise and Communities service has a key role in guiding this regeneration towards sustainable development. North Lanarkshire is the largest local authority social landlord in Scotland with Within the Housing service there are four locality offices covering Airdrie/Cumbernauld, Coatbridge/Kilsyth, Bellshill/Motherwell and Wishaw/Shotts with our Rents team located in Viewpark and Housing Headquarters located in Motherwell. As a Housing Service Manager within the Public Protection Team, you will lead work that helps keep North Lanarkshire's communities safe and supported. You'll work closely with partner agencies to manage and support individuals involved in arrangements such as MAPPA, Justice Throughcare, MARAC/MATAC, and hospital discharges for restricted patients. You'll make sure Housing meets all legal and partnership responsibilities, including those related to housing legislation, information sharing, GDPR, and Adult and Child Protection. This is a busy and fast‐paced role, where you'll need to balance priorities, manage risk, and ensure effective services for tenants and service users. Your work will support homeless prevention, tenancy sustainment, and safe community reintegration across our social housing stock. The CIH Level 4 Diploma (pre-2016) or CIH Level 5 Diploma in Housing or SVQ4 Social Services & Healthcare (SCQF Level 8) are essential as is a management qualification. You will have sound knowledge of housing related legislation, considerable experience including development of housing policies and procedures and experience of managing employees and processes within a multi-disciplined setting. This includes 27 days annual leave and 6 public holidays*, and a wide range of benefits available to you, find out more at work well NL. We also have a full package of learning and development through our learning academy LearnNL to help you reach your full potential and further your career. For more information on local authority careers visit the myjobscotland career hub North Lanarkshire Council are Happy to Talk Flexible Working, we operate a Smarter Working Policy. For all casual/sessional roles, you will receive 12.1% of your hourly rate for every hour worked in total recompense for annual leave, including public holidays. We are a Disability Confident Leader and offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who consider themselves to be disabled, as long as they meet the essential criteria of the person specification/job description. We have also adopted the Armed Forces Community Covenant to show our support for service personnel, veterans and their families. We offer a guaranteed interview for service leavers, spouses, reservists and veterans, as long as they meet the essential criteria of the person specification/job description. This means that if you have ever been in care (looked after at home with a social worker, lived with a relative other than your parents, experienced foster, residential or secure care) you are entitled to a guaranteed interview for this post, as long as you meet the essential criteria of the person specification/job description. This is one way North Lanarkshire is demonstrating our commitment to supporting Care-Experienced People. The Council recognises that work is an important part of adult life and is critical to our wellbeing and shaping how we live. Alternative Application Packs can be requested in other formats for example, Large Print, Braille, and Audio. To request an alternative Application Pack please phone 01698 403151. The following link contains our Easy Read documents which will help explain the process and what happens during the selection process:
