Part Time Housing Officer (Perm: Bromley, Kent)
A fantastic opportunity has emerged for a Part Time Housing Officer to join one of Adecco Public Sector's smallest but most improved Housing Association clients in a permanent post, paying £32,203.20. The working hours are 4 days each week (28 hours), Tuesday to Friday.
The post holder will be working from home but also needed to attend their Orpington office in Kent (minimum 1 day each week) and expected to own a patch of approximately 224 units which will include leasehold and general needs homes. You will be expected to seek out solutions for all customers whatever their needs and will need to be able to think independently and creatively.
Covering a geographical patch across 4 local authority areas (Crawley, Croydon, Islington, Lambeth) by car and public transport, your working days will be Tuesday to Friday, but this is open to come negotiation if needed. You must be available to work occasional evenings with reasonable notice. The successful candidate will be expected to have knowledge of/experience in:
- Providing a professional and knowledgeable estate and facilities service to residents in a range of tenures and resolve issues efficiently and effectively.
- Estate Inspections: Inspecting and grading communal areas and estates, raising and following up on appropriate corrective actions to customer resolution.
- Estate and facilities management: Providing a responsive and efficient estate, block and facilities management service to ensure residents' communal areas and neighbourhoods are pleasant, well-maintained and safe places to live.
- Service Charges: Understanding all services and charges provided to estates, properties and communal areas and checking the quality of services provided to ensure these represent value for money.
- ASB: Tackling and reducing the effects of anti-social behaviour on estates and in communal areas.
- Housing sector knowledge: including knowledge around property management, service charges, health and safety, personal safety and working with vulnerable people.
- Monitoring the financial costs of managing properties and scrutinise service charges (desirable).
- Managing cleaners, scheme managers and caretakers but not income recovery.
Please note, applicants will ideally be a car driver with their own vehicle, due to the 224 homes across 4 local authority areas (Crawley, Croydon, Islington, Lambeth) that they will be managing.
Only applicants who feel they meet the above criteria, and can start in the first week of April 2025 (4 week's notice period maximum) need apply for this role as the client is keen to fill this vacancy as soon as possible and conduct interviews in the final week of February 2025.