Income Assistant

4 days ago

Chatham, United Kingdom mhs homes Full time

At mhs homes, our mission is to support our communities and enhance financial well-being. As Income Assistant, you will play a key role in recovering income from non-residential sources, including garages, sheds, parking spaces, customer recharges and former tenant debts. You will also provide administrative support to other members of the income team.

**Role Overview**:
Your main tasks will include issuing recharges, chasing garage arrears, recharge debts and former tenant debts, escalating relevant debts to outside agencies and serving notice to quit where garage debts are not paid. Additionally, you'll talk to customers when they have questions or problems. Also you will provide admin support and assistance to Income Officers focusing on proactive management of social housing tenancies and rent accounts.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Collaborating with external stakeholders including the DWP, Universal Credit and housing benefit department, to reduce debt
- Working with Income Officers to support customers with repaying debt
- Verifying tenants Universal Credit claims and making contact for first payment.
- Providing a customer focussed rent and debt collection service for Garage arrears.
- Making initial contact with former tenants following termination of tenancy to agree/negotiate a repayment plan.
- Referring former tenants to debt collection agency
- Dealing with current and former tenancy credits
- Setting up, terminating and amending Direct debits
- Providing administrative support within the team

**We offer**:

- A performance based annual bonus + pension contributions matched up to 6%
- 28 days holiday + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell holiday
- Training & Development and opportunities for continuing professional development including regular tool box talks
- A great team of colleagues to work with
- Regular social and charitable events and a range of wellbeing activities
- Enhanced family leave policies
- A really competitive package of flexible employee benefits including a cycle to work scheme
- A fantastic working office environment overlooking the River Medway that’s accessible and inclusive
- Free parking and disabled parking
- Access to two holiday homes in Norfolk and Dorset

We’re a **Disability Confident** employer. This means if you tell us you have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the job, we’ll offer you an interview. We can be flexible when assessing people so everyone has the best opportunity to demonstrate they can do the job.

For more details read the role profile attached. If you have the essential requirements we look forward to hearing from you.

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