Community Housing Assistant

Job Description - Community Housing Assistant (26581)

Salary £26,300 per annum, plus great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hpw)

Whitehaven, Cumbria

We can't offer a CoS for this role

Home, a place where you belong

This is a great job opportunity for a Community Housing Assistant to join Home Group's awesome housing team in Whitehaven, Cumbria. As our Community Housing Assistant (CHA) you're the face to face customer support to our communities. If you like variety, meeting and supporting customers, and want to develop a career in housing, then this is the perfect job for you!

What's in it for you?

• 34 days leave, pro rated (including bank holidays and a "me day")
• Paid time off for volunteering
• Matching Pension contributions (up to 7%, with life assurance of 3x Basic Salary)
• Save up to £1,140 yearly with our health cash plan, covering dental, optical, and therapies
• Career path with development and an excellent training package
• Excellent benefits and rewards including supermarket discounts and travel expenses

What you'll do

• Through visibility, customer engagement, and proactivity on our estates, you'll really get to know our communities.
• You'll support our housing managers in looking after their patches and, through this, help us improve our local neighbourhoods.
• You'll support with tasks such as managing our voids processes which includes liaising with local authorities, estate inspections, engaging and meeting with contractors on site.
• You'll carry out and record the routine safety and compliance checks in our buildings and communities.
• You'll also manage the admin updating records, ordering, and arranging payment for works to be done.

This is more than a job, it's a place where you feel valued. You get great training, support from friendly colleagues and a chance to make a real difference every day. Be part of one of the UK's top 10 Great Places to Work!

You have

• 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
• This is a hybrid role focused on being visible in the community, so most of your time will be spent with customers, but of course there is time for breaks and team catch ups in the office or at home.
• Flexible working hours, there may be some flexibility to adapt your working hours, do let us know about this when you meet us at the interview
• To get from A to B, you'll need a valid driving licence and 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.
• This is a role where you'll spend much of your time lone working in our local estates.

For reasonable adjustments