Housing Officer

Posted 09 January 2024
Salary £37,801.50
LocationDorchester
Job type Permanent
Discipline Social Housing Recruitment
ReferencePROF_44922
Contact NameJames McCarthy

Job description

We are currently working in partnership with a Housing Association based in Dorchester, Poole and Weymouth who are recruiting for a Housing Officer on a permanent contract. The position is due to start immediately, with a salary of up to £37,801.50 per annum.

The ideal candidate will have experience delivering a consistently high standard of customer focused tenancy and neighbourhood management services. You will be required to manage a defined area of properties, predominantly working in the field (70% of the time) and haver the ability to work from home (30% of the time)

Duties will include (but are not limited to):

  • Delivering a proactive face-to-face tenancy management service to customers at key stages of their tenancy such as viewings, new tenancy visits, tenancy audits, end of tenancy visits and property inspections for mutual exchanges/transfers

  • Completing home visits responding to ad-hoc tenancy enquiries and breaches of tenancy which includes, unauthorized alterations, tenancy fraud and property related nuisance reports such as noise, garden or vehicle nuisance

  • Working with customers where property condition failures are identified and agree achievable action plans

  • Completing property inspections as part of a targeted programme ensuring the home meets our standard and that it is safe and suitable for the customer

  • Identifying support needs and offer information, guidance, and signpost to appropriate statutory and voluntary agencies to ensure our customers can sustain their tenancy and look after the home

  • Completing regular inspections to our neighborhoods and blocks of flats taking actions to deal with environmental nuisance and reporting repairs to make sure they are safe and clean

  • Developing and maintaining collaborative working relationships with internal departments and other external agencies to ensure that we are working towards outcomes that support tenancy sustainment, create neighbourhoods where people want to live and enhance the service

  • Safeguarding vulnerable adults and children by escalating through the appropriate channels and represent housing in appropriate multi-agency meetings

Rewards and Benefits:

  • 28 days annual holiday with the opportunity to buy or sell 5 days per year

  • Brilliant Maternity, Paternity or Adoption Leave

  • Access to training and career development

  • Life Assurance

  • Company pension

  • Health cash plan, which includes discounts to a wide range of shops and services

Working hours:

  • 37 hours per week

  • Monday – Friday, 9am-5pm

  • Salary: £30,928.50 to £37,801.50

Please note that you require recent experience to apply for this role.

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