Housing Assistant

**Vacancy No**

VN4505

**Employment Type**

Permanent

**Hours Per Week**

18.50

**Work Pattern**

Monday to Friday

**Location**

The Factory - Goldthorpe, S63 9PG

**Location Region**

Yorkshire and the Humber

**Location City**

Rotherham

**Location Postal Code**

S63 9PG

**Interview Date**

04 Oct 2024

**Job Details**

**Housing Assistant**
**The Factory - Goldthorpe, S63 9PG**
**Closing date - **29/09/2024**
- Humankind has ambitious plans which include the further growth and development of our housing offer, and we currently have a fabulous opportunity for a Housing Assistant to join our hard-working, dynamic, and committed housing team. This is a part time role based in Barnsley_

**About the role**
We will require you to work flexibly to suit the needs of our housing provision and tenants however the good news is you will also have a degree of flexibility of either working from home or from one of our offices. Humankind understands the importance of having a work-life balance and not missing out on those events in your life that really matter whether it’s your child’s sports day or school play, something you want to attend with a partner or even just having your boiler serviced, you would have the flexibility to do these things.

**Main duties**
This role will require you to carry out a range of comprehensive and pragmatic housing management activities centred around tenancy start-up, closure, and resettlement. Dealing with rent arrears, void and income management, anti-social behaviour and enhanced housing management activities that support people to sustain their tenancy. You will also ensure properties are of a high standard, undertake regular inspections and report repairs and maintenance requirements in a timely manner to ensure properties remain safe and well maintained for our tenants in line with Humankind Housing’s policies, procedures, and legal requirements.

**About you**
You will bring with you a passion for providing good quality homes, excellent customer service, intensive housing management and tenancy sustainment services to people who struggle to secure and retain a home from other sources who may have a range of complex health and social care support needs.

Please note this is a part time role for 18.5 Hours - working hours will be flexible between the hours of 9am-5pm Monday to Friday including hybrid working.
Driving licence required due to visiting different sites
Next steps will be a face to face interview

Please **click here** to review the full job description.

**Who are we**
Humankind is one of England’s most successful home-grown charities. We provide free, confidential support for alcohol, drugs, housing, or mental health in friendly local places across the UK. We are committed to fair chances for all and making sure everyone can access the help and support they need to realise their potential. By joining our teams of passionate individuals, you will be contributing to making this happen. You can really make a difference by believing in our service users and their ability to make positive changes when they don’t always believe in themselves.

We are incredibly proud of the work that we do to help address health inequalities in England. Every five minutes, an individual accesses one of our services, and we have supported over 90,000 people across all our services last year. Check out our impact report **here** to read more about the important work that we have done.

**What can Humankind offer you**
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Generous annual leave entitlement (27 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 32 after 1 years’ service)- Annual leave purchase scheme- Enhanced occupational sick pay- %
Enhanced employer contribution to your workplace pension- Death in service benefit- Free Will writing- Eyecare vouchers- ️
Blue light card discount- Fantastic learning and development opportunities, including free training courses- Work-life balance
- flexible working and family friendly policies- ️
- Happy, Healthy You - our wellbeing offers for our workforce- Employee Assist Programme and Humankind Support Networks**Humankind is an equal opportunities employer**
If you feel that you would fit with our values & ethos, are passionate about supporting people, but maybe don’t feel you have the experience required, talk to us about your transferrable skills. For the right people, we can provide development to help you to realise your potential.

**Salary Period**

Per Annum

**Vacancy Salary Range**

23,088 26,440

**DBS Requirement**

Basic

**Does role require Police/Prison vetting?**

Not Applicable

**Driving licence required for role?**

Yes

**Applications Close Date**

29 Sep 2024