Income Officer Co Operative Services

To ensure Co-operatives and community associations maximise income through the effective collection of rent, service charges and other income owed to it by customers working supportively and proactively with the aim to sustain tenancies.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry out home visits or virtual face-to-face contact in connection with income recovery or arrears prevention.
• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of housing and welfare benefits and provide information and signpost tenants to relevant agencies.
• Work alongside the Income Services Manager and the Co-operative Service Manager and other relevant officers across the service to coordinate a response to the Government's Welfare Reform agenda ensuring policies and procedures are amended to reflect legislative and regulatory changes and effective systems are created to collect relevant data and measure the impact of welfare reform.
• Liaise with Housing Benefit departments and the Department of Work and Pensions to encourage prompt and accurate payment of claims, and speedy resolution of problems, access UC Portal and verify claims.
• Work in partnership with external agencies to ensure the co-operatives and community association is delivering a responsive service and maximising income recovery.

The benefits:

• 34 days annual leave, plus the option to purchase up to 5 additional days.
• Birthday leave.
• New Home leave.
• Life assurance (3 x salary).
• Employee Assistance programme.
• Employee Wellbeing programme.
• Flexible Working options.

About You

• Experience of working in a social housing environment and income recovery.
• Computer literate understanding of spreadsheets and ability to use various software packages.
• A working knowledge of legislation and the regulatory requirements relevant to the department.
• The ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team.
• Strong interpersonal skills and excellent communication skills.
• Flexible approach maintaining confidentiality.

Trident Group has over 60 years’ experience of delivering homes, services and innovation for up to 8,000 people in over 3,600 homes in some of the most disadvantaged communities in the Midlands. The Group employs more than 750 staff, works with over 150 volunteers and provides training places and apprenticeships for many more. The Group has an annual turnover of more than £37m and owns assets close to £190m.

The Group consists of:

• Trident Housing, which provides landlord services for the Group in respect of housing management and maintenance.
• Trident Reach, which is a registered care and support charity delivering trauma-informed care and support services. These services include supporting people within registered care, domiciliary care, people with learning difficulties, those with mental health needs, young people at risk, older people, BME groups, people at risk of being homeless, those seeking employability, education and training opportunities and those fleeing domestic abuse.

Trident offers their employees learning and development opportunities and wants to invest in their development and career growth. Through our apprenticeship scheme, we offer various courses in areas that will help support employees within their roles and for their further development.

We celebrate Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and as a person-centred organisation we are continually striving to build a community where everyone feels valued, respected and equally guided by our beacon of hope.

By joining Trident Group, you will have the opportunity to join our Diverse Voices Steering Group to ensure Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion remains at the heart of everything we do.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to:

• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.
• Communicating and promoting vacancies.
• Offering an interview to disabled people.
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required.
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work.
• At least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people.

Applying

All applications must be accompanied with a current CV which will be used to assess your suitability for the role. Please ensure all the skills, experience and qualifications requested are clearly demonstrated in your CV as explained in the body of the advert.

All applicants must provide their right to work documentation at interview stage, such as a valid passport which will be verified to check your eligibility to work and live in the UK.

Relevant roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).