Specialist Housing Officer
Hours: 26 hours, Part-time, Salary: £24,641 per annum (actual for 26 hours)
Contract: Permanent
Location: Finsbury Park, N4
This role is based at this organisation's Head Office but there is some flexibility to work in a hybrid way if preferred.
This Housing Association is looking for a confident individual with great interpersonal skills for this busy Housing role. If this is you, come and join this organisation's Specialist Tenancy Officer.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Housing professional to join a small, but supportive, Housing Team working with older adult residents and providing an enhanced housing management service. It is an interesting and varied role for an engaging, solution-focused person, with a passion for providing excellent people-focused services, and someone who wants to add value within an organisation.
You will work closely with the external Care and Support agencies caring for residents, to support with maintaining a safe and secure living environment and their wellbeing. This includes continuous improvement across all areas of the role, while helping to support and achieve organisational objectives.
Some of the key responsibilities of the role include:
- Assess residents referred to the service.
- Liaise with colleagues to ensure viewings and lettings are coordinated and completed at the earliest opportunity.
- Work with colleagues to assist residents in maximising income and benefit entitlement.
- Take reasonable measures to ensure the security and health and safety of residents in their home.
About the Employer
They are a small but ambitious housing association at a critical juncture. Their ambition is for the communities they are anchored in and exist to serve, and they have done and achieved much over the past few years. But in these challenging times they know they’ll achieve nothing unless they are equally ambitious for their people.
Their values are at the heart of who they are and everything they do, inspiring their thinking and guiding their actions. They strive to build a more diverse organisation, where everyone feels empowered to bring, and be, their best self to work.
They can’t be a brilliant landlord if they don’t partner with brilliant colleagues. Could you be one of them and be trusted to make the difference?
If this sounds exciting, they want you on their team. Please do submit an application.
Staff Benefits
They will offer you a generous pension scheme (up to 10% employer matched contributions and a death in service benefit), 29 days annual leave (increasing after five years’ service), eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and other great benefits.They have an evolving wellbeing offer, that is being developed following employee feedback, and they will invest in your professional development with on-going training and career development opportunities.
Inclusion and Diversity
They want their organisation to be a great place to work and to ensure that their communities are represented across their workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring they are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking.They particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBTQ+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to their residents so that passionate commitment to customers, respect for everyone, pride in the team, and trusted to make the difference remains at the heart of everything they do.
Deadline: 09:00am on 4 October 2024.
Interview: 11 October 2024 in person at Finsbury Park HQ.Please note: This employer can only accept applications from candidates with eligibility to currently work in the UK.
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