Lettings Assistant

2 weeks ago


Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom Hightown Housing Association Full time

**Lettings Assistant - 35 hours a week - £27,117**

The Lettings Assistant will be part of the Income Recovery and Lettings Team, providing a highly professional customer focused lettings service to applicants for Hightown’s rented housing. Liaising with Local Authority Partners, Hightown’s Lettings Officer and Housing Officers, the Lettings Assistant will work to ensure that Hightown’s rented homes are let swiftly and appropriately.

Duties will include answering lettings enquiries, processing tenancy terminations, advertising properties, sending appointment and offer letters, ensuring that all records are updated and accurate, preparing paperwork for tenancies to start, assisting with the sign up process and processing and scanning tenant files.

**About you**

We're looking for an individual who:

- has excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- can take ownership and deliver excellent customer service in a professional and confident manner
- has experience of property lettings either in the public or private sectors
- has a full UK driving licence and access to a car for business use

**About Us**

Hightown is a charitable housing association transforming thousands of lives every year. We do this by building hundreds of much needed new homes and providing care and supported housing services for a wide range of people. We have high ambitions, a principled approach and a dependable, flexible team that delivers.

We currently manage over 9,000 homes and employ over 1000 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 around 500 new affordable homes each year.

**The Benefits**

We offer a range of benefits which include:

- Generous annual leave allowance of 33 days per year, including statutory bank holidays, rising to 35 days with service
- £27,117 pa for a 35 hour a week contract
- Regular support from your line manager and colleagues
- Annual bonus based on satisfactory performance (Dependant on start date and contract length)
- 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

**Closing date: Tuesday 22nd October 2024**

**Interview date: TBC**

We are an Equal Opportunities & Disability Confident Employer.

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