Housing Management Worker
| Posting date: | 22 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £24,638 per year |
| Additional salary information: | 24638 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 June 2025 |
| Location: | Wakefield (Amblers Orchard), WF3 1FQ |
| Company: | Home Group Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 25837 |
Summary
Housing Management Worker
West Yorkshire
Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw)
£24,638 (per annum) (pro rata) and great benefits including Health Cash Plan
Home, a place where you belong
We have two fantastic opportunities to join our beautiful extra care communities. One role is at Amblers Orchard in the charming village of Tingley (opened late 2021), and the other at The Sycamores in leafy Woodlesford, Leeds, brand new in Autumn 2024!
Our schemes support people aged 55+ to live independently with peace of mind, offering over 60 stylish apartments and superb on-site facilities; 24/7 care and wellbeing support, assistive tech, café, hair/beauty salon, cosy lounges with IT areas, an activity room, and gorgeous landscaped gardens. These are true community hubs!
Both locations are close to the M1 and have great public transport with bus stops right outside.
Typical day as a Housing Management Worker
- Be our property housing expert, delivering a top notch housing management service to our customers.
- Support residents in managing their tenancies and rent accounts, including assistance with housing benefit claims.
- Ensure housing benefit payments are received and correctly applied to rent accounts, manage the admin updating records, ordering, and arranging payment for works to be done
- Take the lead in quickly turning around vacant bed spaces, helping new customers move in without delay.
- Maximise occupancy levels by keeping the same scheme running efficiently and responsively.
- Maintain full health and safety compliance across the schemes at all times.
You'll go home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better, here, working for the 5th Great Place to Work in the UK!
You bring
- A background in property management, but that?s not a deal breaker! Perhaps you?ve worked in an environment with compliance and health and safety checks?
- A ?can do? positive attitude, you?re proactive and well organised, and able to work on your initiative.
- A passion for delivering excellent customer service and a genuine desire to help your customers.
- The ability to work on your own initiative, positively influencing people from all different backgrounds.
- Confidence working collaboratively with colleagues in other parts of the business as well as with external partners
- Passion for property and get a thrill out of knowing that your properties are the best they can be for our customers!
Our team
You?re going to be part of a fabulous new Home Group family. You?ll be reporting to our Community Wellbeing Managers (Emma at The Sycamores and Lianne at Amblers Orchard), working closely alongside our housing team and the Registered Manager and their Care team too.
Job details
- Working hours are usually between 8am and 5pm Monday to Friday
- We will require you to be flexible to meet our customers needs
- Based at our service at either Amblers Orchard or the Sycamores in West Yorkshire
- Able to use technology for creating and updating support plans, making benefit claims and doing tenancy signs ups,
- You?ll need an Enhanced 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?
- 25 days annual leave (increasing to 30), the option to buy 5 more, a me day (to take off for whatever you fancy) 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 matter to us, that?s why we?re the 10th 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 Management Worker 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 at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk
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