Housing Officer

2 weeks ago

United Kingdom MTVH Full time

Housing Officer - Wembley, HA9 9AX

This Role: Housing Officer - known internally as a Local Housing Manager

Location: The Welford Centre - 113 Chalkhill Road - Wembley, HA9 9FX

This role is a Fixed Term Position until August 2025 - Salary: £40,915 based on a 37.5hr week

Your home office , at the Welford Centre , Wembley , will be where you will be expected to be at least 2 days a week , and the remaining days you will be on site where your patch is. This role will be covering the Ealing , Brent , Hammersmith and Fulham and Westminster.

As the Local Housing Manager, you will manage and coordinate excellent housing and estate services within a defined geographical patch. This will allow you to be the accountable customer facing representative of MTVH across rented tenures. Key will be the coordination of internal and external services to meet the diverse needs of customers delivering services that meet individual and local needs to a high standard and within the guidelines set.

In addition you will be required to manage the relationship and increase MTVH reputation with defined Local Authority Partners and other external agencies and to participate in local initiatives that will improve the lives of our customers. You will be the point of contact for customers with respect to complaints, estate services, tenancy management, anti-social behaviour , tenancy enforcement and lettings management . With the support of specialist teams internally this will provide you with the ability to be responsible for the solutions for our customers and own your patch.

What you'll need to succeed:

  • Essential car user
  • Experience of working in a social housing setting is essential
  • Whilst good working knowledge of housing practice, housing law and the principles of service charge management is essential, to really succeed it will be your values and passion that will set you apart.
  • At MTVH our values of care, dare and collaborate run through all that we do, we’re looking for people who can demonstrate these behaviours every day of the week.
  • At a time of continuing change, you should be able to demonstrate the ability to adapt and be flexible
  • Ability to collaborate, network and be a strong team player
  • Experience of dealing with customers from different backgrounds, presenting with complex or challenging needs is essential
  • Experience of excellent administration skills
  • Attention to detail and accuracy in writing, reporting and numeracy
  • Experience of dealing with customers face to face and responding to customer enquiries on the phone and in writing
  • Ability to self-manage a varied and demanding workload, prioritising and organising too
  • A self-starter who isn’t afraid of challenge, shows innovation, initiative, empathy & passion
  • The ability to manage and report on issues against agreed targets
  • Must possess excellent office management skills, managing inboxes, keys etc
  • You will be the point of contact for customers with respect to complaints, estate services, tenancy management, anti-social behaviour , tenancy enforcement and lettings management

The nature of this role means that the post holder will be regularly involved in activities with vulnerable adults who receive social care. To meet our commitment to providing safe, high quality services to our customers we will complete a basic background check with the Disclosure and Barring Service once an offer of employment is made.

Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What’s in it for you?

Our benefits include:-

  • 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
  • 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
  • An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra a day off
  • Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
  • Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
  • Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
  • Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
  • Cycle2work scheme
  • Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
  • Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
  • Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
  • Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
  • Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
  • Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
  • Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation

About us

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other’s wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we’re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-

  • Gender
  • Ethnicity
  • LGBTQ+
  • Disability

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

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