Housing Officer – 9 Month Fixed Term Contract – Full time hours
Job Summary
Contract Type:
Fixed Term
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
18/03/2024
Advert End Date:
Closed for applications on 27/03/2024 23:59
Salary:
Band 6 - £29,775 - £31,169 per annum
Employment Location:
South Shields
Further Information
Post Title: Housing Officer – 9 Month Fixed Term Contract – Full time hours
Location: Various
Salary: Band 6 - £29,775 - £31,169 per annum
Reference: 14-2024
Closing Date: Wednesday 27th March 2024
The Company
South Tyneside Homes is an arms-length management organisation (ALMO) created by South Tyneside Council to manage, maintain, and improve its 17,000 council homes.
We are a not-for-profit company 100% owned by South Tyneside Council.
Staff are central to what we do and the services we provide. One of our company’s strategic objectives is to be an “employer of choice, efficient and well-governed” and we aim to have a motivated, well-trained, and diverse workforce to meet the needs of the business both now and in the future.
If you are passionate and motivated to make a positive lasting impact in South Tyneside, then please read on…
We’re currently looking for a Housing Officer to join our team on a full-time basis on a 9 month fixed term contract to help us deliver exciting new changes across our organisation.
You will be joining us at an exciting time of significant change as we transform how we deliver tenancy sustainment support to our tenants. This is your opportunity to be part of this journey and make a real difference to the lives of our tenants – providing them with support, advice, and assistance to help them maintain their tenancy, and helping to shape the service for the future.
South Tyneside Council has commissioned an independent review of the housing and wider services that are currently carried out by South Tyneside Homes and could result in changes to the ways in which these services are delivered.
The Benefits:
- Salary of £29,775 to £31,169 per annum
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Annual Leave package of 26 days per year rising to 30 days after 5 years as well as 8 bank holidays to give you a good work/life balance.
- Flexi
- Health and Wellbeing Group
- Staff Suggestion Scheme
- Comprehensive Induction
About You
We are looking for a proactive individual who will support the delivery of a high-quality, proactive tenancy sustainment service to our tenants.
Interested? If you have experience of working in a social housing environment or tenancy-related service, have strong customer skills and focus, have worked in a front-line customer-facing environment, and have experience of prioritising personal workload and meeting deadlines then we want to hear from you. You should also have experience of dealing with customer complaints and enquiries and be able to demonstrate service excellence.
If you are interested by what you have read and meet our criteria, we would love to hear from you. Please click “Apply Now” to submit your application via our recruitment portal providing a CV and supporting statement outlining how you meet the criteria outlined in the attached Person Specification. Please ensure that you anonymise your CV & supporting statement.
This post requires a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to be carried out.
Closing date: Wednesday 27th March 2024. BT Typetalkers welcome.
If you would like an informal conversation about this role, please contact Gemma Stevenson, Housing Manager via email at Gemma.Stevenson@southtynesidehomes.org.uk or on 07484041618
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any specific requirements during the application process
South Tyneside Homes are an equal opportunities employer. We value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.
Should you need to apply using an alternative method please contact jobs@southtynesidehomes.org.uk OR on 01914268344
Please note
This job is closed for applications.