Allocations (Housing List) Officer

An exciting opportunity has become available to join Housing Allocations, as an Allocations Officer.

Allocations is a high volume work area responsible for assessing, investigating and verifying all applications for social housing in Southampton, and providing housing options advice as part of this assessment. The team is also responsible for advertising and allocating all Council and partner Housing Association vacancies, including new build and regeneration schemes.

In this role, you will use your skills and knowledge to determine the housing requirements of applicants in line with the provisions of the Allocations Policy and the authority’s related statutory obligations. This will involve case working customers who can be in very acute housing need. You will also be involved with the advertisement and allocation of vacant SCC and partner housing association properties, ensuring that the application is up to date and fully verified.

Scrutiny over who is entitled to and prioritised for social housing comes from the public, Council members and internal and external partners. We are a high profile service area so you will need to be comfortable in making accurate, timely decisions that can be subject to challenge.

To do this, you will be expected to build good working relationships with related service areas such as Housing Management, Homelessness, Adults and Children’s Services, as well as external agencies such as registered social landlords operating in Southampton.

Contact Details For Informal Discussion

For more information or an informal discussion about the role please contact Carol McCarthy via email on

Additional Information

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• This post requires an Standard DBS check.
• For any posts that require a DBS check, if you have lived outside the UK within the last 5 years, you will be required to provide a Certificate of Good Conduct or a police certificate from the country/countries you have resided in. Kindly note that this is at the expense of the candidate, as well as any costs involved for translating into English.
• Please note the salary quoted is based on full time hours (37 hours per week)
• The Working Hours for this role are 37 hours per week.
• This role is fixed term until July 2023

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