Community Housing Assistant

Community Housing Assistant

North Yorkshire region, hybrid working from home with community and sites visits  

Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw), Monday to Friday and core office hours expected with some flexibility.  

Salary £24,638 per annum and great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Home, a place where you belong

This is a great job opportunity for a Community Housing Assistant to join Home Groups awesome housing team in Yorkshire.  As our Community Housing Assistant (CHA) you’re part of 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


* You’ll support our housing managers to look after their patches and through this, help us to improve our local neighbourhoods.


* You’ll support with tasks such as estate inspections, engaging and meeting with contractors on site, liaising with local authorities. 


* You'll lead on areas of work such as Compliance appointments, tenancy reviews and obtaining quotes and orders for estate needs.


* You’ll carry out and record the routine safety and compliance checks in our buildings and communities.


* Using Salesforce and Power BI, you’ll assist with management of admin, updating tenancy records and communicating with customers and colleagues.  


* Through visibility, engagement with customers and proactivity on our estates, you’ll really get to get to know our communities.

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

You bring


* A “can do” positive attitude, you’re proactive and well organised, able to work on your initiative.


* The ability to work alone on tasks as well as part of a team, with an eye for detail, and a consistent, methodical and accurate approach to tasks.  


* 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 they’re not deal breakers!


* The ability to use technology to navigate our systems and update customer records


* An appreciation that this is a role where you’ll spend much of your time lone working in our local estates.

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.

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