Housing Officer

6 months ago


Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Riverside Full time

**Overview**:
**Job Title**: Housing Officer
**Job Number**: 1460
**Contract Type**:Permanent
**Salary**: £24,699.43 (£25,813.09,is achieved after 18 months successful performance in the role)
**Working Hours**: 37.5 hours a week
**Working Pattern**: Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm
**Location**: Claremount House, Gloucester

**Your own car is essential to travel around Swindon and Gloucestershire.**

**Why Riverside?**

At Riverside, we’re a housing association with a difference - enhancing the everyday for all our customers. For 90 years, we’ve been revitalising neighbourhoods and supporting communities by providing the homes they need to live full, fulfilling and rewarding lives.

We have a portfolio of over 75,000 affordable residential and retirement homes across the UK. Our work ranges from homelessness services to social care, employment support to retirement living, and we need the best people on board to help us.

**Working with us, you’ll enjoy**:

- Competitive pay & generous pension
- 28 days holidays plus bank holidays
- Flexible working options available
- Investment in your learning, personal development and technology
- A wide range of benefits

**The difference you will make as a Housing Officer**

Working collaboratively as part of a committed team that puts the customer first by delivering an outstanding housing management service across several defined properties, you will contribute to the day-to-day service by undertaking a range of tasks to ensure the safe operational management of our care and support services.

**About You**

We are looking for someone with:

- Experience of working within housing management
- An understanding of the barriers faced by vulnerable and diverse customer groups and individuals with complex needs
- Previous experience in positively resolving incidents

**Role Profile**

**Deliver an Allocation & Letting Service**:

- Liaise with external stakeholders to deliver an effective referral pathway into the service/properties
- Ensure occupancy targets are met, through lettings and refurbishment of empty properties in line with the scheme’s re-allocation procedures
- Allocate properties ensuring customers meet the criteria, affordability and required landlord checks
- Meet with customers to provide practical support with setting up a new tenancy, ensuring all documents are complete and liaising with external stakeholders if required
- Show new customers the accommodation and communal amenities, clearly communicating tenant responsibilities and compliance to enable them to fulfil and maximise their tenancy
- Visit new customers to make sure they are settling into their accommodation and are being supported to follow their tenancy agreement

**Deliver a Housing Management Service**:

- Be responsible for ensuring empty properties are referred to Asset colleagues for void works, following the void procedure to ensure rooms are ready-to-let
- Report and monitor the delivery of reactive repairs within properties to ensure they are maintained and health and safety compliant
- Liaise with contractors and colleagues around planned maintenance programmes, ensuring that on-site delivery is well co-ordinated and in line with customer requirements
- Undertake day-to-day housing management duties, ensuring high standards of cleanliness are maintained within services and that rooms are prepared, ready for site inspections
- Proactively support customers experiencing issues that may put their accommodation at risk; where appropriate issuing warnings and Notices to
- Determine (NTDs) in consultation with Service Managers
- Prepare files and case notes in readiness for court
- Deliver a tenancy sustainment advice service to support customers to maintain their accommodation, e.g. claiming correct benefits
- Work directly with customers to monitor or reduce issues of anti-social behaviour within the service
- Meet regularly with customers to discuss ways to improve their accommodation, promoting involvement and consultation on matters impacting their housing
- Ensure the safety of our customers by recognizing and acting on any risk by following local safeguarding procedures and escalating appropriately
- Monitor and assist in maintaining health and safety requirements standards

**Deliver an Administration Service**:

- Carryout administrative tasks to support efficient running of the service
- Produce reports and other written documentation as required to support housing management delivery
- Maintain and update clear, accurate and strength-based records on the appropriate digital platform
- Assist schemes in daily operational tasks, including answering phones and working on Reception, as required

**Other Information**
- You will be required to work flexible hours to meet customer and business needs, which may not include normal office hours
- You will be required to travel to different properties within the defined area as and when required
- Use the Lone Worker system as and


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