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This Role: Housing Officer - known internally as a Local Housing Manager
Location: Southgate, N14 6PW
This role is a Fixed Term Position until August 2025 (subject to potential extension)
Salary: £40,915 based on a 37.5hr week
Your home office will be located at our office in Southgate, where you will be expected to be at least 2 days a week, and the remaining days you will be on site where your patch is located.
As the Local Housing Manager, you will manage and coordinate excellent housing and estate services within a defined geographical patch. This will allow you to be the accountable customer-facing representative of MTVH across rented tenures. Key will be the coordination of internal and external services to meet the diverse needs of customers, delivering services that meet individual and local needs to a high standard and within the guidelines set.
In addition, you will be required to manage the relationship and enhance MTVH's reputation with defined Local Authority Partners and other external agencies, and to participate in local initiatives that will improve the lives of our customers. You will be the point of contact for customers regarding complaints, estate services, tenancy management, anti-social behaviour, tenancy enforcement, and lettings management. With the support of specialist teams internally, this will provide you with the ability to be responsible for the solutions for our customers and own your patch.
What you'll need to succeed:
* Experience of working in a social housing setting is essential.
* Good working knowledge of housing practice, housing law, and the principles of service charge management is essential.
* At MTVH, our values of care, dare, and collaborate run through all that we do; we’re looking for people who can demonstrate these behaviours every day of the week.
* Ability to adapt and be flexible in a time of continuing change.
* Ability to collaborate, network, and be a strong team player.
* Experience dealing with customers from different backgrounds, presenting with complex or challenging needs is essential.
* Experience of excellent administration skills.
* Attention to detail and accuracy in writing, reporting, and numeracy.
* Experience of dealing with customers face to face and responding to customer enquiries on the phone and in writing.
* Ability to self-manage a varied and demanding workload, prioritising and organising effectively.
* A self-starter who isn’t afraid of challenges and shows innovation, initiative, empathy, and passion.
* The ability to manage and report on issues against agreed targets.
* Must possess excellent office management skills, managing inboxes, keys, etc.
The nature of this role means that the post holder will be regularly involved in activities with vulnerable adults who receive social care. To meet our commitment to providing safe, high-quality services to our customers, we will complete a basic background check with the Disclosure and Barring Service once an offer of employment is made.
Please note: we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.
What’s in it for you?
Our benefits include:
* 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year.
* 2 volunteering days per year for helping out in local communities.
* An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year for an extra day off.
* Supported family-friendly approach with extended parental leave.
* Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%.
* Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year.
* Life assurance cover 3 x your salary.
* Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department.
* Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members to.
* Tenancy deposit – interest-free loan to help with rental deposits and season ticket loan.
* Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform.
* Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues.
* Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships, and career planning support.
* Employee Assistance Programme - We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation.
About us:
We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.
Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document.
Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH), we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support, and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.
We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and others’ wellbeing.
We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we’re doing well, and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Network groups are:
* LGBTQ+
* Disability
Our core values of Dare, Care, and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people-focused business, solving social issues by working together!
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found, so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
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