Title:  Housing Officer

Sanctuary manages rented and shared ownership homes and supports community initiatives for thousands of customers across England. Our staff help make a real difference to the quality of people’s lives.

Housing Officer

Brighton & Surrounding areas - Base office location may vary dependent upon suitable candidate - balance of home and office working

£33,854 - £35,636 per year

37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday

We are looking for an experienced Housing Officer to join our Housing Operations team, based in Brighton. As a Housing Officer you will play a key role in delivering a high quality housing management service that meets the identified needs of customers and the wider community.

The role will involve visiting properties across the South East region and working with colleagues across different service areas to address a number of issues which could pose risks to the welfare of our residents and the condition of our properties. These include repairs, property neglect, sublet and abandoned properties, hoarding and anti-social behaviour. If you are a hardworking and enthusiastic individual, then this could be the challenge you are looking for.

The role of Housing Officer will include:

• Effective management of anti-social behaviour cases
• Collaboration with colleagues in Property Services and Lettings to ensure the effective allocation of void properties
• Managing tenant expectations about repairs and escalating any property maintenance issues affecting tenant welfare via appropriate channels
• Managing complaints about service delivery
• Working with colleagues in other service areas to help the organisation meet its compliance obligations (fire safety, water hygiene, gas safety and data protection)
• Providing general advice on all aspects of tenancy to enable sustainability
• Working with a range of external agencies to resolve a range of issues affecting tenant welfare including domestic abuse, anti-social behaviour and safeguarding)
• Working with administrative colleagues to complete a range of tenancy management process including tenancy conversions, permissions, mutual exchanges, successions and service charges
• Enforcement of tenancy breaches

Skills and experiences:

• Recent experience undertaking a similar role and a passion for supporting tenancy sustainment and working with vulnerable people
• Proven experience of delivering high quality tenancy and customer service
• Excellent skills in analysing and diagnosing problems and implementing solutions ideally with experience of this in relation to anti-social behaviour
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Working knowledge of relevant regulations and good practice
• An understanding of Microsoft Office packages including Word, Excel and Outlook is essential and knowledge of SAP, ReACT and Radar would be advantageous
• Travel will be a requirement of the role, therefore a full valid driving licence is essential

Why work for us?

Sanctuary Housing is one of the UK’s leading social landlords, providing around 70,000 homes across England. We give our residents good quality, affordable homes in communities that they can be proud of. As part of a not-for-profit organisation, we reinvest any surplus we make back into the local communities we serve.

Our Benefits    

As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental and financial health and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:

• 24 days annual leave
• A pension scheme with employer contributions from Sanctuary
• Life Assurance
• Employee Advice Service including counselling
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Voluntary health plans  
• Employee discounts
• Wellbeing support and tools
• Employee recognition scheme
• Employee Networks, with a shared interest in inclusion, and who provide invaluable support to colleagues
• £33,854 per annum (rising to £35,636 per annum after 12 months, subject to satisfactory performance)

To view the job profile please click here (if the link is unavailable please visit the Sanctuary careers website)

Closing Date: 9 October 2024

We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.

For an insight into what it’s like to work for us, take a look at our company page on Linkedin

Inclusion is one of our core values. Our goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive and meet our customers’ needs with fairness and empathy. We know having a range of ideas and opinions makes a difference.  We encourage and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission.  We will make adjustments throughout your application process, in line with Sanctuary’s commitment to our Disability Confident employer status.

Building Equality and Diversity

Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers. 
We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent illegal working.
A basic Disclosure and Barring Service check will be necessary in the event of a successful application which we will pay for.
Sanctuary Housing Services Limited is a subsidiary of Sanctuary Housing Association, an exempt charity.