Housing Solutions Officer
Housing Solutions Officer
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Job Description
23 months contract with a Local Authority
Job Summary:
Providing holistic and personcentred housing management services across the borough.
Universal Housing Services Officers will be providing holistic and personcentred housing management services across the borough.
This will include: Receiving a wide range of transactional and housing related service requests from residents and nonresidents using right firsttime principles to manage demand and conclude a variety of enquiries efficiently.
Responding to customer enquiries through phones email website CRM and Apps ensuring they are dealt with and responded to speedily and efficiently Making Every Contact Count through the rapid assessment of resident needs to identify opportunities for early intervention and prevention.
Postholders may rotate specialisms over time enabling them to gain a greater level of expertise in tenancy management services. Officers are central to the provision of quality housing advice streamlining the customer experience.
Key Duties/Accountabilities
To be part of an agile front door service able to adapt to changing demand and internal transformation whilst ensuring that customer interactions are dealt with quickly efficiently and professionally and are aligned with customer need
To be adaptable using modern workflow practices and technology to deliver improved responses to service requests enquiries payments and incoming reports processing transactions wherever possible and organising access to specialists when required.
To update systems people and documentation to ensure that data is accurate relevant and valid increasing the value potential and effectiveness of our data resources.
To ensure service users understand the availability of digital and selfserve options encouraging and aiding their use through effective digital inclusion activities to achieve the channel shift programme. Service users should be actively moved towards digital and selfserve solutions at every opportunity.
To undertake robust assessments recording and reviewing risks and vulnerabilities escalating as required to the appropriate level within the service structure
To contribute to a programme of process and system improvements to ensure first line customer interactions are fast accessible facilitate selfserve and meet customer need.
To provide housing and tenancyrelated advice and support directly to council tenants their families advocates and other professionals to make every contact count ensuring opportunities to identify vulnerabilities safeguard residents/staff understand resident needs and build resident resilience are realised.
Essential Experience Required:
Experience of providing advice and practical assistance to the public in a social
housing public sector or equivalent setting is essential.
Experience of working in and delivering services to a multicultural community is essential.
Experience of housing provision in the rental or leasehold market is essential.
Essential Qualification Required:
General level of education qualification is essential.
Additional information to note:
Working hours: 35 hours per week.
The role closes soon please apply ASAP.
Providing holistic and person-centred housing management services across the borough.
Employment Type
Full Time
