Very Sheltered Housing Officer

Supporting Statement

As part of your application, you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement, your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked ‘upload resumé’. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.gov.uk/jobs/supportingstatement .

Job Details

Good Housing impacts on so many aspects of our daily lives. As well as being a basic human right, it also encourages a sense of community, helps economies to thrive and creates an environment which people want to protect.

We need you to help us meet our aim to provide everyone with access to good quality, affordable decent housing that meets their needs and aspirations. We want to improve the quality of life for people across Fife, and we work with many different organisations, including tenants’ groups, to try to make that happen.

The role of the Very Sheltered Housing Officer is to deliver a Housing Support service to tenants within our 12 complexes across Fife. Our tenants live in our Very Sheltered Housing complexes as part of our Older Persons Housing Service. We provide daily welfare checks to our tenants, and we also provide onsite Housing Support which is delivered through a Housing Support Plan.

Staff work on a 4-week rota which involves working weekends and public holidays. There will be requirement to be flexible; be mobile, working across all our complexes in Fife; working as a lone worker as part of a wider team.

A link to the role profile is included at the bottom of the advert. You will find out more about the job and the type of person we are looking for.

The Person

• Previous experience working with older people or service users with specific or additional needs.
• Educated to SVQ level 6 which meets the SSSC registration requirements for Housing Support Workers in a Housing Support Service.
• Can deal with crisis situations.
• Be able to demonstrate an ability to work on his/her own initiative.
• Have a positive attitude to service users.
• Literacy and numeracy skills.
• Basic IT skills – ability to deal with e-mails.

Before confirming to your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme.

As this role requires SSSC registration, the successful applicant will have three months to apply for registration.

If appointed, you must start your application as soon as possible so you're registered within the required six months.

If you need to achieve a qualification to maintain your SSSC membership, information will be provided if you are appointed. You must ensure you complete the qualification within the specified timeframe.

More details are included in the role profile.

Further Information

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