Job Introduction
Are you looking for a fulfilling and rewarding career opportunity working for one of London’s biggest housing associations, Notting Hill Genesis? Can you provide a first-class service to enhance and improve the customer satisfaction of our residents?
As a Supported Housing Officer, you will be the key NHG contact for anything relating to your residents’ homes. You will build and maintain excellent relationships with residents, offering an empathetic and personal housing service. Where a care and support provider (including NHG) delivers on-site, you will work exceptionally closely with this teams to achieve a joined up approach.
Care and Support (C&S) aspires to be the leading provider of supported housing within NHG’s geographical footprint, playing a key role in reducing the challenges our customers face.
You will be the principle housing contact for your supported housing residents, whose needs will range from experiences of homelessness or domestic violence to cognitive impairments and age-related conditions such as reduced mobility and frailty. You will deliver housing management services specialised to the client group, considering at all times their needs and vulnerabilities and putting them at the heart of our service.
You will ensure a safe, supportive environment by reporting repairs and managing the health, safety and cleanliness of the site. By developing superb relationships with customers and local stakeholders, you will be key to upholding NHG’s reputation and helping us achieve our aspirations.
Main Responsibility
The Supported Housing Officer (SHO) delivers housing management services and being actively involved in organising activities for the residents. Your role will often include working in partnership with other agencies and advocating for residents, as well as setting clear expectations with residents, so they consistently have the information and assistance to sustain their tenancies.
You will be personally committed to delivering the highest quality housing management services, ensuring that our homes are well-managed, with minimised voids, maximised income, and above all offer positive environments for our residents.
Deliver a responsive onsite service, looking after communal facilities, first line housing management, organising activities for residents and delivering customer service of the highest standard. Overall, the role calls for a highly collaborative, service-minded, and proactive individual, keen on making a positive impact on residents' lives.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate would have experience providing a customer focused service to customers with support needs, in a social care or social housing environment. Good working knowledge of the service’s customer group and experience working alongside multiple teams/agencies,
This is a challenging and rewarding role. You will be adept at-risk management, have good judgement, strong interpersonal skills and a passion for excellent customer service.
If this sounds like the challenge you are looking for, we would love to hear from you.
Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification.
This role is offered on a fixed term contract for 12 months.
Benefits
In return we offer:
- Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
- Generous pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay - we offer enhanced maternity and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
- Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counseling services provided by independent specialist organisations
- Health cash plan
- Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance and much more
- Interest free loans: season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan and training loan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Life Assurance x 4 annual salary
How to apply
- Applications close at 23:59 on 23rd February 2024
- Interviews will take place 7 and 8 March 2024
Please apply for this role with us online. If you are not able to apply online, please contact our HR team via jobs@nhg.org.uk to discuss your requirements.
Should a redeployee apply for this role; their application will be considered before any others.
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a Enhanced check via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
About the Company
Notting Hill Genesis is now one of the largest housing associations in London and the south east. We own and manage more than 67,000 homes and employ around 1,500 staff. We provide homes across a range of tenures and are committed to continuing to deliver housing that is affordable to all. Our roots reach back to the 1960s when our legacy organisations were established by local people who shared a similar vision – to house west London’s working poor, providing them a home from which to build themselves and their families a secure future. For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit: https://www.nhg.org.uk/about-us/
Our people
We value our people and both respect and celebrate their differences. We’re proud to say that our colleagues come from different backgrounds, with varied outlooks and are from all over the world. We encourage and are committed to diversity. We know that when people with varied experiences and unique points of view come together, it makes us a stronger organisation and more able to help the wide range of residents that we serve. We want all our colleagues to bring their full selves to work in a culture and environment based on respect and fairness, regardless of role, background or ability.
Our pledges
We are proud signatories of the G15 group’s diversity pledge to encourage more diversity in the boardroom and at senior level. The pledge on ethnic diversity commits NHG to reflect the ethnic diversity of the communities we work in at all levels and particularly at senior managerial, leadership and board levels.
We have under-representation of ethnically diverse colleagues at this level and are keen to fill this gap. We welcome applications from everyone. For this role, we especially encourage ethnically diverse candidates to join us and be part of an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity, equality of opportunity and provides a place for you to grow your career.
We are also a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer and have signed up to Harry’s Pledge. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation
To find out more about Diversity and inclusion at NHG, please visit our website.
