Housing Team Administrator

Avenues is a community where people smile, laugh, grow and achieve great things.

We are pleased to offer a brand new role for a Housing Team Administrator to join our Housing team based at our Head Office in Sidcup. Avenues offers hybrid working and so the role will be based partly at this office as well as working from home. This role is full time, 37 hours per week.

In this role you provide an efficient, and effective secretarial and administrative support service to the Housing team.
- Support the Housing directorate by preparing & collating documents for meetings and arranging, attending, and minuting meetings as required.
- Undertake all aspects of diary, meeting, and activity management.
- Manage and monitor various operational and compliance tasks such as chasing and managing repairs feedback forms, adding cost to work orders, maintaining an Approved Contractors List, and arranging site visits for H&S contractors.
- Oversee the collection, organisation, and distribution of data across various platforms and creating and maintaining appropriate data folders.
- Assist in the development, collation and distribution of a range of documents including board and statistical reports, letters, contract administration, and proofreading reports.
- Handle administration of H&S audits, enforcement notices - managing plans, actions, and regular updates.
- Develop and maintain databases, including records of statutory checks and leases.
- Ensure regular monitoring and compliance tracking
- Provide general administrative support to the Housing directorate including scanning, uploading and filing of documents.
- Experience of IT systems, databases and MS Office
- Strong office administration skills
- Experience of working as part of a team and supporting colleagues
- Ability to prioritise own workload, be self-motivated, and work under pressure
- Effective communication skills at all levels
- Knowledge of Supported living and Registered Care - Desirable
- Knowledge of Repairs and Maintenance delivery_ - _Desirable

For full details please see the attached role profile.

**Your values should match ours**:
Respect: We treat people as we would wish to be treated ourselves.

Excellence: We don’t settle for okay, we are determined to achieve more.

Integrity: We do the right thing, even if it takes more time and effort.

Pride: The work we do is something we want to tell others we are part of.

**Benefits you can expect**
- £21,000 per annum
- Flexible Working including working from home.
- 31 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays (pro-rata), increasing after to 2 years’ service and after 5 years’ service.
- Access to high quality training that supports your career development.
- Free and confidential 24/7 access to the health portal and employee assistance programme.
- Contributory pension scheme with life assurance.
- Recommend a friend scheme.
- And more.

**About us**:
Avenues Group is a specialist charity provider of supported living, residential care and outreach services for people with autism, learning disability and complex needs. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to be an active citizen and engaged in the community where they live.

We encourage our central services employees to really get to know the organisation and to spend time visiting services, meeting people we support, their families and our support staff. As a not-for-profit organisation, we’re driven by strong ethics, and invest everything back into our staff and the people we support.

You’ll be part of an organisation that takes pride in its values at all levels, making sure the people we support are at the forefront of our decisions.