Community Housing Officer

Community Housing Officer - 4 months - Immediate start - £17.50 per hour - Blaenau Gwent

Are you passionate about making communities safer and supporting people to feel secure in their homes?

Yolk Recruitment Public Sector and Not-for-Profit are working with a Housing Association to appoint a Community Housing Officer, the role will utilise your customer service skills and stakeholder management ability.

Key responsibilities

• Work with all partners, both internal and external to the organisation, to identify when tenants are struggling to sustain their tenancy and ensure the appropriate support is offered. A wellbeing plan for persons deemed at risk of being unable to sustain their tenancy will be undertaken and monitored.
• You will lead on identifying and project-managing neighbourhood improvements to agreed procedures, helping to maximise the level of tenant involvement.
• You will lead on identifying and project-managing neighbourhood improvements to agreed procedures, helping to maximise the level of tenant involvement.
• Undertake community inspections on a regular basis ensuring all areas such as gardens, open spaces and pathways are maintained in good order and are clean, and free of hazards taking the appropriate action to address issues identified.

About you

You'll have experience in housing and be knowledgeable about various elements of housing and you must have a people focused outlook and be confident when it comes to keyboard skills. You must be an excellent communicator, highly organised and in order to be considered for this role you MUST be able to drive.

Benefits

• Monday to Friday with no weekends
• Hybrid Working
• £17.50 per hour
• 37 hour working week
• Due to location be able to drive

If you think this one's for you:

Please contact Richard Coombs at Yolk Recruitment for a confidential discussion and to access full job details: (phone number removed)

Please submit your up-to-date CV and please take into account you need housing experience

Yolk Public Sector & Not-for-Profit team works with organisations across the UK to fulfil their recruitment needs and to achieve their D&I objectives. We recruit temporary, contract and permanent hires for 1 off specialist needs or for volume campaigns. We support our applicants to navigate the public sector recruitment processes and secure their dream jobs.

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