This Role: Housing Officer - Known internally as a Local Housing Manager
Patch Location - Moorlands Estate, Brixton plus surronding properties stretching to Central Brixton
MTVH Office Base - Clapham Park - SW2
Permanent Full Time - Salary: £40,915 based on a 37.5hr week
MTVH are recruiting are recruiting for a skilled and experienced Local Housing Manager to be predominantly office based and out on the patch, you will manage and coordinate excellent housing and estate services within a defined geographical patch. The patch primarily consists of the The Moorlands Estate in Brixton, South London, however, the patch includes surrounding properties stretching to central Brixton. You will be accountable, customer facing and representative of MTVH across all tenures including rented, shared ownership and leasehold customers, although you will be responsible for our rented customers only. Co-ordination of internal and external services to meet the diverse needs of our customers, delivering services that meet individual and local needs to a high standard is essential. Participation in local initiatives to support the community with their initiatives is necessary and may involve weekend work but this is not common. You will seek continuous improvement with a view to providing an excellent service to residents.
You will be required to manage our relationship with the Local Authority and other Housing Association partners. You will be the point of contact for customers with respect to complaints, estate services, tenancy management, tenancy enforcement and lettings management.
What you'll need to succeed:
* Essential car user
* Experience of working in a social housing setting is essential
* Whilst good working knowledge of housing practice, housing law and the principles of service charge management is essential, to really succeed it will be your values and passion that will set you apart.
* 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.
* At a time of continuing change, you should be able to demonstrate the ability to adapt and be flexible
* Ability to collaborate, network and be a strong team player
* Experience of dealing with customers from different backgrounds, presenting with complex or challenging needs is essential
* Experience of excellent administration skills & analysing customer feedback to achieve service improvements
* 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 too
* A self-starter who isn’t afraid of challenge, shows innovation, initiative, empathy & passion
* The ability to manage and report on projects against agreed targets
* Must possess excellent office management skills, managing inboxes, keys etc
* Must be willing to work flexible hours as required
Desirable
* Housing qualification
To meet our commitment to providing a 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. This will be renewed on a 3 yearly basis. The cost of the application will be paid for by MTVH as part of our on-boarding process.
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 things like helping out in local communities
* An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra a 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
* Cycle2work scheme
* Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
* Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
* 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
Our promise
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 other’s 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 Networks groups are:-
* Gender
* Ethnicity
* 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.