Housing Officer

**Who are Accent?**

We own almost 20,000 houses across the North, East and South of the country and they are homes to over 35,000 of our customers.

We’re not just a housing association, we actually exist to improve lives, providing people with high quality homes, affordably. Whatever their housing need, whether family, single, older or more vulnerable - our customers always come first. They are always at the very heart of our business, and we demonstrate this through our values.

**About the Role and Person**
- 35 hours per week
- Up to 12 month FTC
- Patch location - Kirklees

This is an exciting opportunity to join Accent as Customer Partner. You and your colleagues will be improving the lives and homes of our tenants, as well as ensuring they can manage their tenancies and have any support they may need.

As the Customer Partner you will own the customer experience for your patch, you will be the focal point in delivering the Accent promise to our residents. We want you to be highly visible in our communities - you will know who our customers are and they will know who you are. We tell our customers we will be “With you for the journey” and we want our Customer Partners to deliver that promise.

You will have strong communication skills, be self-managing and be able to offer a seamless service.

You will also be keeping our customers safe; liaising with contractors and colleagues to ensure the physical environment looks good and does not pose any risks. We want you to be creative and push the boundaries to maintain Accent as a landlord of choice.

You will be out and about most of the time and you will get lots of support whilst managing your own time and your own patch. This will add to your knowledge when you are approving service charges and identifying options for proposing improvements on your patch.

**A typical day might include**:

- Being highly visible in our communities - you will know who our customers are and they will know who you are
- Meaningfully engaging customers in order to understand and surpass their expectations, achieving satisfaction levels that exceed our target
- Enabling sustainable tenancies and being creative in coming up with solutions with customers so that we deliver on our vision of With You for Your Journey
- Owning all aspects of customer safety to ensure that our homes and communities feel safe and secure for the people who live there
- Using your initiative and networks to ensure a fantastic customer experience and that we get it right first time, every time
- Owning and delivering on performance for your patch, ensuring that all targets are surpassed, or putting plans in place to recover any performance failings
- Where relevant, working with Accent colleagues, contractors and local authorities to ensure that our homes are let sustainably to people in housing need
- Where relevant, working with Accent colleagues to deliver creative solutions in order to let those properties that are proving more difficult to let, including effective use of void enhancement budgets
- Engaging with new customers so that the Accent/Customer relationship sets off on a strong footing, positively creating trust in the Accent brand
- Bringing our values to life through all of your interactions with our customers and with our colleagues
- Taking responsibility for your own health & safety and making sure that our customers are safe in their home and communal areas
- Supporting and advising our vulnerable customers who are unable to maintain their homes, collaborating with other agencies to get the best outcomes
- Being responsible for using your budget effectively and delivering positive outcomes that will enhance the customer experience

**The must haves**
- Passionate about customer care and wellbeing, and inspiring others to do the same to support them throughout their journey with Accent.
- Curious, creative and innovative in problem solving, in delivering successful outcomes for the customer and community
- Someone who is committed to the development of their own skill, experience and knowledge
- A consistently high performer who thrives on challenges and will seek to inspire both customers and colleagues everyday
- A brilliantly positive team player, who will be committed to delivering excellence
- Accountable, open and honest
- Taking ownership of situations from beginning to end to ensure the best possible outcome for our customers
- Be driven to succeed in all Key Performance indicators that you are responsible for
- Fantastic relationship skills which enables you to build rapport with customers and all other stakeholders
- A keen eye to value for money and able to deliver
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for business use

**Location**

We’re a keen promoter of agile working and encourage a mix of office and home working when not out on site.

We’ll provide you with all the equipment and software that you’ll need for your role however it will be your