Housing Property Coordinator
Luton – Houghton Regis
Permanent, part time (18.75 hpw)
Salary £24,664 per annum (pro rata) and great benefits including Health Cash Plan
Car driver essential
Home, a place where you belong
This is a great opportunity for a Housing Management Coordinator to join our team here in Houghton Regis. As our Housing and Property expert, you’ll focus on tenancy support for our customers, ensuring their homes are safe and well maintained. Providing a housing management service, you’ll support them to manage and maintain their tenancy and rent accounts with the aim of helping them move on to a secure, long-term accommodation!
Typical day as a Housing Property Coordinator
- Older people services (over 60s)
- Making sure that our customers properties are homes they can be proud of, you’ll support your customers by engaging and involving them in their tenancies.
- Help our customers with housing benefit claims, making sure that these are received on their rent account.
- Where there is a need, you’ll also issue and sign warning letters and notices which may lead to attending court.
- Getting rooms ready for the next customers who needs our help and for maximum occupancy, you’ll turn around vacant or void properties within set timescales.
- Ensuring we are health and safety compliant and that maintenance standards are met.
Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Place to Work in the UK!
You bring
- Experience in managing a housing management caseload and overseeing landlord and housing management duties.
- Know-how of re-letting of rooms or units, collecting rents, and taking formal tenancy action when needed.
- Able to take on a lead role within the team, offering guidance and support to your colleagues.
- The ability to work on your own initiative, positively influencing people from all different backgrounds.
- A “can do” positive attitude, you’re proactive and well organised, and able to work on your initiative.
- Confident working collaboratively with colleagues in other parts of the business as well as with external partners.
Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review
Our team
You’ll join Juliet and the team of eleven who manage the Older Peoples Independent living services in the patch. We are a welcoming, supportive and diverse bunch with interests that include the foodies to the motorbike rider and lots in between, the thing we all share is pride in our services and a real passion for what we do.
Job details
- Flexible working hours (18.75 hpw)
- Work pattern that works for you!
- Based at our service in Houghton Regis and occasionally travelling around the properties in the Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire area.
- Able to use technology for creating and updating support plans, making benefit claims, and doing tenancy signs ups.
- To get from A to B, you’ll need a vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage!
- You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.
A place where you belong
Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!
What’s in it for you?
- 34 days leave (including bank hols and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too!
- Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
- Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
- We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
- Colleagues really matters to us, that’s why we’re the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
- Learn more about our benefits on our website.
Find out more
Click APPLY NOW to see our Housing Management Coordinator Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out.
Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk
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