Housing Manager

Location: Edinburgh
Salary: £24,500
Closing Date: 30 April 2021
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Job Description

Housing Manager

Edinburgh, Glasgow & Dundee

Full Time (37.5 hours per week)

Permanent

Salary circa £24,500 (dependent on experience) plus our Brilliant Benefits!

Empowering to live rewarding and happy lives. Thats when it hits home

We have fabulous opportunity for you to join our really awesome team as a Housing Manager. Your roles in a nutshell, is to make our customers happy! Its not just about providing our customers with a home, its about building relationships with them. This means that when it comes to those situations that are a bit difficult or tricky (which do happen from time to time) that we make it easier to deal with.

Yes, we collect rent, chase arrears, fill void properties, manage estates and deal with anti-social behaviour, but it is so much more than that! Its also about working closely with our colleagues to make sure that where our customers need support, that we help them to live their best lives!

About our team

To us were not just a team were a work family. Our manager is Wendy and has been working for us for 14 years now.  Youll join our fairly new team, we are a small team of 2, and we dont just love to support our customers, were there for each other too! We work hard but have fun too! Our team is looking forward to welcoming you onboard and sharing their knowledge and skills with you!

Where youll work

Youll work across the geographic areas of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee. The great news is that you will have the flexibility of working either from home or in one of our local offices and well give you the technology and kit to make that easy.

Working hours

As a team were critical to supporting our customers. This means youll work a 37.5 hour week covering the hours of 9am to 5:30pm Monday to Friday. The good news is that you will have a degree of flexibility, as its the teams unwritten rule that you attend the important appointments in life. So, whether its your childs school play, your partners graduation, or to get your new fridge delivered well work with you in what matters. Our focus is on getting the job done, not your working hours!

About you

You'll have a proven passion for delivering excellent customer service and a genuine desire to help our customers. You will demonstrate effective relationship, negotiation, conflict resolutions skills and the ability to self-manage and prioritise. You'll also need an understanding of housing, neighbourhood management, housing law, universal credit, welfare benefits and how this relates to the work of a Registered Provider.

You will be responsible for carrying out generic Housing Management activities including arrears, void management, estate management, customer involvement, income management, lettings and other related tasks.  You will continuously improve services to meet challenging targets and obtain best value for customers, working in partnership with stakeholders, external partners and colleagues.  You will also signpost our customers to our varied access channels within the contact centre, improving their access to our range of services.

Here at Home Group we have invested heavily in our future and use current and up to date equipment. Youll be issued with the latest kit, which could include a Surface Pro and mobile. So it's really important to us that you are technologically savvy (or at the very least not a technophobe!)

Experience

Its important to us that you have worked in a Mid-Market Rent or Letting Agent environment before and have knowledge of the Letting Agent Code of Practice. Ideally you will hold a technical award in Residential Letting and Property Management or would be willing to work towards this award!

You will have a confident understanding of current legislation and working knowledge of tenancy deposits. Registering with deposit schemes is also required.

As this is a Mobile working and community based role, you need to be able to drive, as well as having access to a car insured for business purposes. Dont worry, well pay you expenses to cover this use.

When you join, youll need to have a valid Enhanced Check under the Disclosure and Barring Service. The great news is that we will pay for that to be done if you dont have a transferrable one.

Want to know more?

If youre not reading this advert on our careers pages, press the APPLY NOW button to access lots of useful stuff! Youll be able to download the Housing Manager Job description, and find out more about Home Group. Weve also got some short films that show you what its like to work here, and we know youll want to find out more about our award winning benefits and rewards package!

To apply

Dont delay applying for this brilliant job, as we may close it early if we get lots of applications! Just upload your CV and if you have one, your covering letter (this will help us learn more about you!). If you need them, weve also got some great templates to help you.

Youre unique!

Home Group play a big part in tackling prejudice and discrimination, not just for our customers, but colleagues too! You can be yourself here, because we value everything that makes you unique. So whatever your age, race, sexuality, disability, religion, or gender identity, we recognise and celebrate our differences. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

During Covid

Were continuing to deliver services for our customers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and our brilliant colleagues are at the very heart of making that happen. Were doing things a little differently at the moment, so to keep everyone safe, well engage with you digitally where possible. Check out our awesome video to find out more on how our colleagues have felt supported here during the outbreak.


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