Housing Manager: Communities

Location

Durham, County Durham | United Kingdom

Job description

Housing Manager: Communities

Teesside, Durham & Sunderland

Permanent, Full time (37.5 hpw), typically 9:00am – 17:00pm Monday – Friday

Salary £28,200 to £32,000 pa, negotiable dependent on skills and experience, with great benefits including Health cash plan

Home, a place where you belong

This is a great job opportunity for a Housing Manager to join Home Groups awesome housing team in Teesside, Durham & Sunderland. As our Housing Manager, you’ll be the face-to-face customer support to our communities. This is the perfect job for you if you like variety and delivering excellent services to our customers and communities. It is an ideal job for someone who has a passion for neighbourhood management, including managing anti-social behaviour and supporting our customers through some difficult times. You may already have extensive experience as a generic Housing Manager or experience of face-to-face customer service within another sector.

You’ll join our team with a real focus on delivering for our customers within our communities. You will be supported by the wider housing management teams, Neighbourhood Assistants, Financial Inclusion Partners and Community Housing Assistants. Through visibility, engagement with customers and proactivity on our estates, you’ll really get to get to know our communities. This will help us to improve our local neighbourhoods.

Typical day as a Housing Manager: Communities

• You’ll understand the community that you work in for our general needs, shared ownership and leasehold customers covering our homes in Teesside, Durham & Sunderland and decide on the necessary course of action.


• You will develop and maintain a community plan in collaboration with our customers and external stakeholders.


• You will represent Home Group in our communities and being present on our estates undertaking Housing Manager tasks such as: Estate Inspections, Anti-social behaviour management, statutory compliance visits and viewings/sign-ups for new customers.


• You’ll progress legal paperwork such as notices and prepare witness statements for anti-social behaviour cases at court.


• You will also have involvement across our other housing management functions.

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 have

• You will have a background in neighbourhood management processes, either within the housing sector or an alternative sector.


• You’ll have an understanding of housing management, housing law and customer service.


• You are fully competent in IT and can learn new systems quickly.


• You’re super organised and methodical in your approach and are a proactive self-starter with a “can do” positive attitude.


• Passionate about delivering excellent customer service and have a genuine desire to help your customers.


• This job can challenge, especially when we’re dealing with complaints, but your resilience will help you through.


• Confident working with external partners and stakeholders such as local authorities.

Our team

You’ll join our friendly and dedicated team and will soon discover that we support each other as much as we support our customers. We have a wealth of experience which will enable us to support you as you settle into your new role. We work hard but have fun too and we are looking forward to sharing our skills and knowledge with you!

Although we work as a mobile team, we are close knit and supportive of one another. We don’t just love to support our customers, we’re there for each other too!

Job details

• Hybrid working which involves working from home, in the community or your nearest local office.


• You'll manage your own diary and be accountable for achieving KPI’s.


• You will need to be able to drive and have access to a vehicle insured for business purposes. Don’t worry, we’ll pay your business mileage to cover this use!


• 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 holidays 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.


• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3 x salary


• 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.


• 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!


• Colleague wellbeing really matters to us. There are a number of tools and support available to help you when you need them.


• Explore our benefits in detail on our website

Find out more

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Finally do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process at [email protected]

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Salary

£28.2k - £32k per annum