Housing Officer - Sheltered Accomodation (12 month fixed term contract)
Aster Group
London, UK
Published 1 week ago
Housing officer
Housing Officer - Sheltered Accomodation (12 month fixed term contract)
Location: London W9
Salary: £30,899 per annum
Hours: 37 hours per week
Closing Date: Tuesday 04 February 2025
Do you have experience in housing/tenancy management? If you do please keep reading.
Your Role
As a Housing Officer you will work within Ada Court, our sheltered housing scheme in Maida Vale. '>Day to day you will find yourself overseeing building safety, managing tenancies including viewings, settling in new residents and sign ups and completing fire risk assessments. It's a role with many hats and you'll enjoy the variety the role brings and will happily use your previous experiences to gain great outcomes.
You'll be part of resident's meetings and will be responsible for reporting both communal and resident's repair requirements.
The role could also see you managing light anti-social behaviour issues, so being able to effectively communicate is a must.
About You
To be successful in this role you will have previous housing/tenancy management experience, ideally with a local authority or housing association.
The following are considered essential:
Central & Cecil Housing Trust as part of the Aster Group provides safe and affordable homes for people over 55 in London. Since 1926, we've helped our residents to enjoy vibrant, active and fulfilling lives.
Today, C&C supports people aged over 55 across a portfolio of safe and affordable properties and care homes, in outstanding locations. As a not-for-profit organisation, we re-invest every penny into helping our residents achieve their potential. From partnerships in fitness and the arts, to innovative technology and building inspiring homes, we support vibrant, active, and connected communities. Day to day, we live our values: "to be pioneers, to believe in better, to do what we do from the heart, to invest in each other and to have the courage to act".
What's in it for me
We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:
Aster is not a sponsorship organisation and all candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it's subsidiary brands.
Location: London W9
Salary: £30,899 per annum
Hours: 37 hours per week
Closing Date: Tuesday 04 February 2025
Do you have experience in housing/tenancy management? If you do please keep reading.
Your Role
As a Housing Officer you will work within Ada Court, our sheltered housing scheme in Maida Vale. '>Day to day you will find yourself overseeing building safety, managing tenancies including viewings, settling in new residents and sign ups and completing fire risk assessments. It's a role with many hats and you'll enjoy the variety the role brings and will happily use your previous experiences to gain great outcomes.
You'll be part of resident's meetings and will be responsible for reporting both communal and resident's repair requirements.
The role could also see you managing light anti-social behaviour issues, so being able to effectively communicate is a must.
About You
To be successful in this role you will have previous housing/tenancy management experience, ideally with a local authority or housing association.
The following are considered essential:
- Experience in tenancy management, including audits and signposting to other agencies for additional resident support
- Strong awareness of building health & safety issues
- Ability to work independently, exercising good initiative and judgement.
- Great communication skills, you'll be a go to person so building rapport will be very important
- Awareness of safeguarding issues, proactively ensuring that people are kept safe, protected from harm.
- Excellent written, communication and IT skills
- Successful candidates will complete an Enhanced DBS check
Central & Cecil Housing Trust as part of the Aster Group provides safe and affordable homes for people over 55 in London. Since 1926, we've helped our residents to enjoy vibrant, active and fulfilling lives.
Today, C&C supports people aged over 55 across a portfolio of safe and affordable properties and care homes, in outstanding locations. As a not-for-profit organisation, we re-invest every penny into helping our residents achieve their potential. From partnerships in fitness and the arts, to innovative technology and building inspiring homes, we support vibrant, active, and connected communities. Day to day, we live our values: "to be pioneers, to believe in better, to do what we do from the heart, to invest in each other and to have the courage to act".
What's in it for me
We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:
- Flexible working - whilst some roles need to be carried out in a specific place at a specific time, where possible we encourage our colleagues to work to their own schedule at a location that suits them, their team and our business' needs
- A focus on colleague wellbeing - workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
- We invest in colleagues' careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
- Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
- Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
- Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
- Enhanced leave
- We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives
Aster is not a sponsorship organisation and all candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it's subsidiary brands.