Home Adaptations Officer

Contract Type

Permanent

Working Hours

37 hours per week

Location

Civic Offices and Homeworking

Interview date to be confirmed

Colchester is Britain’s First City, and Britain’s Newest City. A wealth of heritage buildings, coastline and Constable countryside surrounds a modern City that is rapidly changing to match our thriving population growth. We have a new vision to modernise our services to match the future needs of the city and our next generations as our team culture.

The Council are seeking a Home Adaptations Officer to support vulnerable residents to remain safe and independent in their home by providing an effective technical surveying and advice service to enable adaptation, improvement and repair work to dwellings with grant or loan aid.

Duties of the role

We are expanding our Healthy Homes team in order to deliver a range of financial assistance schemes to improve housing conditions. We have a large Disabled Facilities Grants programme and offer other discretionary forms of financial assistance to residents.

We are looking for an individual that can manage a busy workload and work with the other members of the team including the Home Adaptations Officers, Caseworkers, Coordinator and Senior Occupational Therapist to process grant and loan enquiries through from receipt, property inspection, preparing detailed specifications, detailed technical drawings, liaising with contractors to obtain quotes, submitting appropriate applications for permissions and monitoring works through to completion.

Colchester City Council recognises that housing conditions are a key determinant of health and wellbeing and that a citizens environment plays a key role in protecting, sustaining and improving people’s quality of life.

Our approach is to consider the home environment and individuals holistically and the Healthy Homes Team makes use of the full range of Council resources available. We work closely with front line health and social care professionals to identify and remove housing related barriers to better health, particularly for our vulnerable residents.