Housing Management Coordinator with Apprenticeship

West Yorkshire, Huddersfield, Batley

Permanent, full Time (37.5 hpw), Monday to Friday

Pay £13.21 per hour (£25, 838 per annum) and great benefits including Health Cash Plan

'plus upskilling via an apprenticeship from day one if you don't already hold a relevant qualification'

Home, a place where you belong

This is a great opportunity for a Housing Management Coordinator to join our team here in West Yorkshire. As our Housing and Property Guru, you’ll focus on tenancy support for our customers, ensuring their homes are safe and well maintained. Providing a housing management service doing an apprenticeship alongside it.

Typical day as a Housing Management Coordinator

• Customer group - Homeless
• Making sure that our customers properties are homes they can be proud of, you’ll support your customers by engaging and involving them in their tenancies.
• Help our customers with housing benefit claims, making sure that these are received on their rent account.
• Where there is a need, you’ll also issue and sign warning letters and notices which may lead to attending court.
• Getting rooms ready for the next customers who needs our help and for maximum occupancy, you’ll turn around vacant or void rooms / bed spaces / properties within set timescales.
• Ensuring we are health and safety compliant and that maintenance standards are met.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Place to Work in the UK!

You bring

• Enthusiasm in housing and overseeing landlord and housing management duties
• Enthusiasm of re-letting of rooms or units, collecting rents, and taking formal tenancy action when needed.
• The ability to work on your own initiative, positively influencing people from all different backgrounds.
• A “can do” positive attitude, you’re proactive and well organised, and able to work on your initiative.
• Confident working collaboratively with colleagues in other parts of the business as well as with external partners

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review

Our team

Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you! Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You’ll join our team, who come from different walks of life and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home!

"Don't worry if you don't have experience or qualification in this sector as we will train you via apprenticeship learning from day one; this is our commitment toward ensuring you gain the skills and experience needed for a good career in Housing."

Applicants must hold at least GCSE grade D-G or 4-1 (A-C or 9-4 is preferred though!).

Job details

• Flexible working hours (or we’re open to agreeing a work pattern with you)
• Manage your own diary
• Based at our services in Huddersfield and Batley you’ll spend your time around the properties.
• Able to use technology for creating and updating support plans, making benefit claims and doing tenancy signs ups,
• You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave (including bank hols and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Colleagues really matters to us, that’s why we’re the 10^th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
• Learn more about our benefits on our website.

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Housing Management Coordinator Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out. Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk