Job Introduction

Job Title:                Housing Assistant

Salary:                   £21,840.00 - £25,085.00

Contract:               Permanent

Location:               Homebased North West

Weekly Hours:      35

So…. What is this role exactly?

Are you driven to achieve results and great outcomes; do you work at pace on your own or within a team? Are you looking to be part of an amazing organisation like Your Housing Group and join #TEAMYHG to provide a brilliant customer experience?

If this is you, and you have knowledge or experience within Social Housing Choice Based Lettings Portals and general administrational duties, we would love to hear from you!

This is an exciting opportunity for a Permanent Housing Assistant to join our Region 5 Housing Management Team, which covers the Greater Manchester Area.

The successful post holder will be performance driven, with the ability to manage your own workload and meet targets. Travel is required to our Head Office, Youggle House for meetings and training, and to occasionally cover our team office in Partington.

What will my working week look like? 

Reporting to the Assistant Regional Manager, you will provide advise and guidance to housing applications on Choice based lettings scheme Manchester Move, with responsibility for processing invoices and raising purchase orders.

You will also work with the housing management team to ensure gas safety checks are booked in with our customers.

You will be homebased, living within the North West, within a reasonable travelling distance of our Head Office in Warrington, to attend meetings and training courses when needed.  Realistically, you will be required to visit our Head Office approximately once a month and our Partington office twice a month.

What will I be responsible for doing?

You will be foremost responsible for providing the Regional Housing Management Team with an efficient and effective administration service. This relates to providing access for gas Safety Checks and the management of Choice Based Lettings Portal Manchester Move.

You will be able to Manage your own time against a list of tasks with varying deadlines and priorities whilst maintaining accurate records.

You will also be passionate for handling customer and stakeholder enquiries through to resolution.

And what would make me stand out from the crowd?

To be a successful as Housing Assistant here at YHG, you will have experience in;

• Processing housing applications for choice-based lettings schemes administered by the Group, ensuring applications, queries and reviews are timely processed.
• Support the Group’s Regional Housing Management Team and Compliance Team, through all available contacts proactively contacting customers requiring access for gas safety checks, minimising the requirement for Tenancy Management Officers to complete gas access home visits.
• Process purchase orders, invoices and sundry payments in line with the Group Operational Standing Orders (OSO’s) and required timescales.
• Complete landlord reference checks for existing and former customers.
• Administer and maintain the Group’s management move and tenancy transfer list.
• Administer and complete low level tenancy changes e.g. name changes.
• Complete ad-hoc administration tasks on behalf of the Regional Housing team.
• Identify and report any issues/breaches, in relation to Health and Safety.
• Adhere to safeguarding policy and procedure; where appropriate refer customers at risk to relevant and appropriate Agencies/Local Authority.
• Support the wider Regional Team to meet team objectives and Key Performance Indicators.
• Undertake additional duties appropriate to the role and/or grade

Ideally you will have;

• Strong organisational skills with the ability to effectively prioritise a busy and reactive workload.
• Positive attitude with a flexible and adaptable approach.

This role is really suited to someone who likes to work at pace, is organised and performance driven, always wanting to provide a great customer experience.

This role also offers genuine progression opportunities where many post-holders in this role have gone onto other areas of the business such as Allocations and Lettings Offers and Tenancy Management Officers.  If you feel this could be the right role for you, we would love to hear from you!

For more detail on the role, please review the role profile available by visiting the vacancy on our website - www.yourhousinggroup.co.uk/careers.

That all sounds great, what’s in it for me?

In return we offer £21,840.00 - £25,085.00 for a 35-hour week, and 25 days annual leave (holidays also increase with time served) plus Bank Holidays, but our employee offering provides much more than just a competitive salary and holiday allowance.

At #TeamYHG we measure performance on outputs and quality, not hours and minutes. We offer a flexible, homeworking culture where you’re trusted to get the job done.  If you need time for an appointment, the school run or an exercise class, if it fits with business needs, we’re open to what works for you too. And when you need to collaborate with your team, you can visit Youggle House – our purpose-built collaboration, wellbeing, and social space in Birchwood, Warrington.

On top of this, we’ll provide you with a great benefits package, including a contributory pension where we match whatever you choose to contribute (up to 8%), an advanced level Healthcare cash plan through BHSF, that doesn’t just provide dental and optician cashback but also health and wellbeing benefits (such as 24/7 GP Access, money back from prescriptions and alternative therapy treatments) and an amazing discount scheme that gives you access to half price cinema tickets, subsidised gym memberships and a huge range of discounts with some of the biggest high street and online names.

For more of our great benefits, please review the benefits information sheet available by visiting the vacancy on our website - www.yourhousinggroup.co.uk/careers.

And who are Your Housing Group?

Your Housing Group is a registered social landlord helping people at every stage of life to live in quality homes they can afford.

As one of the North’s sector-leading landlords, we are proud to play our role in tackling the UK's housing crisis by continually reinvesting in our 29,000 properties and tailoring our services to meet the diverse needs of our customers. We also build over 1,000 new homes each year.

We’re an employer of choice, over 88% of colleagues here recommend us as a 'great place to work

Closing Date:   14th October 2024

We review applications as they’re received and reserve the right to close this advert early; if you’re interested, please apply ASAP to avoid disappointment.

Your Housing Group values diversity and encourages applications from all communities. Your Housing Group operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for any applicants who declare they have a disability, if these applicants meet the minimum requirements for the role (as set out in the role profile and/or person specification) they will be guaranteed an interview.  Your Housing Group welcomes applications from our customers, however, access to confidential information and probity will be explored to determine whether there is a potential conflict of interest or security issue present which may prevent the Group from being able to proceed with the application.YHG1

Your Housing Group