Housing Manager

Harrow, North London

Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hpw)

Pay circa £34, 000 per annum and great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Home, a place where you belong

Join us as a Housing Manager at Home Group, in Amanda and Tim’s awesome housing team in Northwest London, covering areas across Brent, Harrow, Harringay, Enfield and Tower Hamlets.

You’ll be our face-to-face customer support to our estates, ensuring we provide safe homes and communities where people choose to live, while also ensuring our income is maximised.

You’ll provide first class customer service, delivering our customer promise every day!

Typical day as a Housing Manager:

• Through visibility, engagement with customers and proactivity on our estates, you’ll really get to get to know our communities.
• You’ll look after a number of patches and neighbourhoods (ably supported by our Community Housing Assistants).
• Through visibility, engagement with customers and proactivity on our estates, you’ll really get to get to know our communities. This will help us to improve our local neighbourhoods.
• Proactively managing anti-social behaviours in our estates, responding to customer queries and complaints.
• Managing our voids process including liaising with local authorities.
• Carry out estate inspections, engaging and meeting with contractors on site, as well as carrying out and recording the routine safety and compliance checks in our buildings and communities.

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 Places to Work in the UK!

You bring

• A “can do” positive attitude, you’re proactive and well organised, able to work on your initiative.
• A real passion for delivering excellent customer service and a genuine desire to help your customers.
• Confidence working collaboratively with colleagues in other parts of the business and external partners
• An understanding of housing management, housing law and universal credit would be ideal, but they’re not deal breakers!
• The ability to use technology to navigate our systems and update customer records
• An appreciation that this is a role where you’ll spend much of your time lone working in our local estates where access to a vehicle for business use is a must.

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

You’ll join Amanda and Tim’s team, we’re super passionate about what we do! We are a newly formed team and we’re really proud of the work we do in our communities to help our customers sustain their tenancies. We’re a supportive bunch and like to meet up regularly in our office in Harrow for team catch-ups and a regular office day.

Job details

• This is a hybrid role and in an average week, you’ll be expected to split your time working from the nearest local office, as well as out in our communities in Northwest London and working remotely from home.
• There may be some flexibility to adapt your working hours, do let us know about this when you meet us at the interview.
• We mainly work Monday to Friday and work occasional evenings to meet with customers. The great news is that you’ll be able to shape your own diary.
• To get from A to B, you’ll need a vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage!
• You’ll need a Standard 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 Manager 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 by making reasonable adjustments at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk