A Housing Association is currently looking for a Housing Officer on a temporary basis for about three months to work on a portfolio in Colchester.
Key responsibilities as follows
Responsible and accountable to residents for providing an excellent, empathetic and personal housing management service
This includes regular communication and meetings with each resident at home, and being responsible for ensuring that any issues they have raised are resolved appropriately
Achieve this by working creatively on your own as well as part of a wider team, including but not exclusively, the customer service centre and the Asset’s team
You will be connected to tenants - in their communities ensuring residents are offered the right support to maintain their tenancies, be happy in their homes and get on with their lives.
Always keep your promise to tenants by getting back to them within agreed timescales and tasks. Ensure we keep residents safe by following safeguarding procedures and working closely with external statutory authorities.
Responsible for ensuring tenancies are managed effectively, tackling unacceptable behaviour in an open and constructive manner.
Work alongside residents to ensure we offer the right support to sustain tenancies.
Manage void properties to be ready to let to our "void standard" as quickly as possible including specifying work orders on standard voids.
Always follow the lettings procedure ensuring an effective audit...