Private Rented Sector Casework Supervisor

About the Role

The post holder is responsible for supporting the Private Rented Housing Manager in matters of housing advice casework helping prevent homelessness and acting to ensure that the City Council fulfils its legal and safeguarding requirements to Citizens in housing need or crisis. This will include evaluating; citizen need assessment housing advice homelessness prevention and deciding homelessness duties in accordance the Housing Act 1996 VII ( as amended). To have oversight of Social Lettings and casework at all stages providing technical advice and ensuring that all decisions are dealt with in accordance with legislation Council policy and statutory deadlines Individual Leadership Expectations.

About You

Key priorities for the postholder will include;

• Comprehensive and up to date working knowledge of homelessness in both public and private sector and able to advise colleagues and provide technical advice and guidance to social lettings officers
• Ability to supervise and support staff on a day to day basis providing technical advice
• Ability to effectively manage a complex workload under pressure meeting specified targets and deadlines whilst demonstrating attention to detail prioritisation and self-organisation skills
• Experience of dealing with legal challenges from advocates and customer complaints
• Ability to be creative to identify problems and work to create solutions

When applying candidates should provide a written statement along with their CV outlining their key skills and experiences in the priorities outlined above.

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

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 informationfor applicants page.

For informal enquiriesplease contact Rebecca McGill Private Rented Housing Manager

Closing Date: 01 May 2026

Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Interviews will be held:Monday 11th May 2026

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