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Community Housing AssistantHybrid working, from Home, our Reading Office and in the communityPermanent, full time (37.5 hpw), Flexible workingSalary circa xc2xa324,638 depending on experience, and great benefits including Health Cash PlanHome, a place where you belongThis is a great job opportunity for a Community Housing Administrator to join Home Groups awesome housing team in South Region. As our Community Housing Administrator (CHA) youxe2x80x99re 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!Typical day as our Community Housing Assistant

• Through visibility, engagement with customers and proactivity on our estates, youxe2x80x99ll really get to get to know our communities.
• Youxe2x80x99ll support our housing managers to look after their patches and through this, help us to improve our local neighbourhoods.
• Youxe2x80x99ll support with tasks such as managing our empty property processes which includes liaising with local authorities, also completing estate inspections, engaging and meeting with contractors on site.
• Youxe2x80x99ll carry out and record the routine safety and compliance checks in our buildings and communities.
• Youxe2x80x99ll also manage the admin updating records, ordering, and arranging payment for works to be done.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? Youxe2x80x99ll do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Place to Work in the UK!You bring

• A xe2x80x9ccan doxe2x80x9d positive attitude, youxe2x80x99re 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 theyxe2x80x99re not deal breakers!
• The ability to use technology to navigate our systems and update customer records
• An appreciation that this is a role where youxe2x80x99ll 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 teamYouxe2x80x99ll join Sonia's team, wexe2x80x99re super passionate about what we do! We are a newly formed team and wexe2x80x99re really proud of the work we do in our communities to help our customers sustain their tenancies. Wexe2x80x99re a supportive bunch and like to meet up regularly in our London office for an anchor day.Job details

• This is a hybrid role and in an average week, youxe2x80x99ll be expected to split your time working from our various office's in the region, as well as out in our communities, 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 youxe2x80x99ll be able to shape your own diary.
• To get from A to B, youxe2x80x99ll need a vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that wexe2x80x99ll pay your mileage!
• Youxe2x80x99ll need a Standard DBS check done and we pay for that.

A place where you belongGreat 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. !Whatxe2x80x99s in it for you?

• 34 days leave (including bank hols and a xe2x80x9cme dayxe2x80x9d 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 xc2xa31140 per annum. Wexe2x80x99ll 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 youxe2x80x99re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Colleagues really matters to us, thatxe2x80x99s why wexe2x80x99re the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
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