Housing Officer

6 months ago


Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom Hightown Housing Association Full time

**About Us**

Hightown is a charitable housing association operating principally in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. We believe everyone should have a home and the support they need, so our aim is to build new homes and to provide excellent housing and support.

We currently manage over 8,000 homes and employ over 1,000 full and part time staff from our head office in Hemel Hempstead. We have an annual turnover of £120 million and a development programme that will deliver over 400 new affordable homes each year.

**About the role**

We are looking for a full time Housing Officer to be part of a team providing professional, customer focused housing management service to the Association's general needs residents in rented accommodation.

Unfortunately although we love to develop people, at this critical stage in our journey you will need to have had experience of delivering a customer focused housing management service.

The role involves managing a geographical patch of properties and duties will include:

- Carrying out tenancy reviews and tenancy audits with residents in their homes
- Housing management casework including anti-social behaviour, domestic abuse, and hoarding
- Taking appropriate action in regard to breaches of tenancies
- Working with the Income Recovery team to ensure appropriate action is taken to deal with breaches of tenancies related to rent arrears

Each Housing Officer in the team has a lead role, enabling staff to specialise in an area of Housing Management. This may include:

- Anti-social Behaviour
- Domestic Abuse
- Tenancy Fraud

As part of your lead role, you will be expected to keep up to date with legislation, regulatory requirements and best practice in your key area as well as providing guidance to other team members when needed.

Due to the nature of the role you must have a driving licence and access to a vehicle.

**The Benefits**

In return for your hard work and commitment, we offer a benefits package which includes:

- Generous annual leave allowance of 33 days per year, including statutory bank holidays, rising to 35 days with service
- £37,164 pa for a 35 hour a week contract
- Regular support from your line manager and colleagues
- Annual bonus based on satisfactory performance
- Monthly attendance bonus on top of your basic salary
- Annual salary and cost of living review
- Commitment to health and wellbeing with the Five Ways to Wellbeing
- Ongoing professional development and support to deliver outstanding support
- Workplace pension scheme and life assurance of three times your annual salary
- Refer-a-friend scheme: Earn a £130 bonus for each friend you refer to work for us
- Friendly and supportive team environment
- Employee assistance helpline
- Mileage paid for car usage
- ** Well-equipped on-site gym**

We are an Equal Opportunities Employer.

We are a Disability Confident Employer.

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