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About The Role

Role: Housing Accommodation Officer
Location: Jubilee Gardens, Leyland
ContractFull time (36.25 hours per week) / Permanent
Salary: 27,694 - 29,064
Closing Date: 12 April 2026

Are you looking for a new career in housing and customer service?

We have an exciting new opportunity to be a part of the Accommodation team working together to provide on-site administration, excellent customer care and housing management to officers and managers at the council’s new build Extra Care facility, Jubilee Gardens

What you’ll be getting up to

  • You will deliver a professional frontline service assisting customers to resolve queries and complaints, and provide information on all Council services, deliver low level support tasks and inductions and helping customers to manage appointments whilst contributing to their Personal Housing Plans and Care plans. Recognise the diversity of our customers promoting participation.

Who we’re looking for

  • Someone with the ability to deal with and respond to complex and sensitive enquiries.
  • Someone with an empathetic but professional manner who can work independently but also work effectively with others
  • The ability to work under pressure and respond flexibly to all situations
  • The ability to respond positively to changes and challenges

Other requirements

  • Successful applicants will be subject to a DBS check (applied and paid for by the Council).

About Us

At South Ribble Council, our mission is to provide a first-class service and improve the quality of life for our communities. Our staff are our greatest resource in helping us achieve this. They’re at the heart of everything we do and are crucial to the delivery of excellent services. 
 
Working Together
 
We share a number of our services with Chorley Council. This allows for improved resilience across both councils and provides numerous benefits to our operations. Whilst some staff and back-end processes are shared between the Councils, both Councils still retain sovereignty and have separate strategies and corporate plans.
 
Additional information

Applicants are advised to apply early. We reserve the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date. 

Equal Opportunities

We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to the elimination of unfair and unlawful discrimination and prejudice in all our policies, procedures, and practices.

We’re committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process, please contact us via the "Contact Us" page on our website.

If you are disabled or your last employer was the armed forces, and you meet all the essential criteria of a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

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