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Energy Advice Assistant

  • Full time
  • £27,440 – £30,495
  • Thenue HA, 423 London Road, Glasgow G40 1AG
  • Closing 6th March 2024


  • Advertised from 20th February 2024
  • EVH Grade 5 PA13-16. Pay award from 1 April 2024. Fixed term until January 2025. 35 hours per week.

Role

Thenue Housing Association provides high quality housing with a stock base of approximately 3,000 properties in our six main communities located in Glasgow. Thenue Housing Association has always gone beyond our core housing responsibilities to address the wider needs of our communities and we have successfully secured funding through the Energy Redress Scheme to deliver an Energy Advice Project to our communities.

We are seeking 1 Energy Advice Assistant to join our Energy Advice team. The successful candidate will be part of an Energy Advice Team of 3 staff consisting of 3 posts (1 Energy Advisor and 2 Energy Advice Assistants). The team will provide a free, impartial energy advice, information and advocacy service. The service will be accessible to low income and vulnerable households who are struggling to heat homes and pay energy bills, and tenants who are in energy debt or at risk of energy debt.

You will have practical experience of providing advice and advocacy in a community / voluntary setting as well as experience of working in a customer focussed environment. Key to the role, you will have experience of working with people from a wide range of backgrounds including vulnerable and ‘hard to reach’ individuals. You must be willing to work towards a City & Guild Energy Awareness Level 3 qualification.

In return, we offer an excellent package including a competitive salary, a Defined Contribution Pension Scheme, 25 days annual leave plus 15 public holidays. A Basic Disclosure check will be required for this post.

Thenue aims to be an equal opportunities employer.

Application notes

For an application pack please contact recruitment@thenuehousing.co.uk or download from our website.

Closing date for receipt of applications is 12 noon on Wednesday 6 March 2024.

Interviews are expected to be held on Thursday 14 March 2024 these will be in person interviews.