London Borough of Hillingdon Jobs | 1 Live Vacancy

The London Borough of Hillingdon is the local authority for London's second-largest borough by area, in the west of the capital. It is home to Heathrow Airport and has extensive green spaces and parks alongside its town centres, with Uxbridge as the administrative centre. The council's main offices are at the Civic Centre in Uxbridge town centre, with staff also based across the borough, and its stated approach is to put residents first in everything it does.

Housing and homelessness services

Hillingdon is a stock-holding council, meaning it owns and manages its own council homes through a Homes and Neighbourhoods service that covers tenancy and estate management, rent collection and income maximisation, repairs and voids, caretaking and complaints. The council's homelessness pages urge anyone worried about their housing to act immediately and describe help with finding private rented accommodation, preventing homelessness, temporary accommodation for households owed a duty, longer-term assistance, reviews of decisions and a Duty to Refer route for public bodies. Adverts for its housing roles talk about preventing tenancy failure and homelessness, supporting vulnerable tenants through Universal Credit and benefit claims, and working with welfare benefits officers, adult and children's social care and outside agencies.

The council also arranges supported housing: sheltered housing and extra-care schemes for older residents, a Shared Lives scheme, and a number of named supported living schemes including Chapel Lane, Glenister Gardens, Goshawk Gardens, Honeycroft Hill House, Sessile Court and Swan House. Separate teams cover domestic abuse and violence against women and girls, with independent domestic violence advisors and specialist co-ordinators recruited from time to time.

Who the council supports

The housing service works with council tenants and leaseholders, households facing eviction or the end of a private tenancy, people sofa surfing or sleeping rough, survivors of domestic abuse, older and disabled residents needing supported accommodation, and families in temporary accommodation. The borough's location next to Heathrow and on the Metropolitan, Piccadilly and Central lines, the A40 and the M25 makes it accessible from across west London and the Home Counties.

Working at Hillingdon Council

Full-time staff work a 36-hour week with flexible hours, and get a minimum of 26 days' annual leave rising to 29 after five years (more for senior grades), membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme, season ticket loans, a cycle purchase scheme and free parking at the Civic Centre for part of the week. The council lists professional fee reimbursement, Vivup discounts, a credit union, a free 24-hour confidential counselling and legal advice line, mental health first aiders, occupational health, discounted leisure centres and adult education, and an apprenticeship programme. Career breaks are available.

Typical roles

Housing vacancies are advertised under the Housing and Repairs and Maintenance departments on the council's jobs portal and have recently included income maximisation officers, estate caretaking managers, repairs and voids support officers, complaints and legal disrepair officers, accommodation service managers, housing project delivery managers and independent domestic violence advisors, alongside a large volume of social work posts. Most roles are based at the Civic Centre, Uxbridge UB8 1UW, with hybrid working where the job allows.