Housing Officer

As a not-for-profit housing organisation providing more affordable homes for Londoners, we’re on a mission to work better together for our residents and make London home for those who live in our capital, whatever their personal circumstances.

We’re looking now for people with previous experience of customer service to join our operations team, which has recently been refreshed to ensure we’re set up in the best way to deliver the things that matter most to our residents.

As a Housing Officer, you’ll play a vital role in enhancing our residents’ overall experience of living in one of our homes. You’ll foster a strong local presence, ensuring residents know you by name, by being readily available and proactive.

• Main Point of Contact: You will be one of the primary points of contact for residents on your patch. You’ll handle day-to-day resident inquiries while working alongside building managers and specialist teams like the repairs hub and customer experience team to ensure communal and estate-wide matters are managed.
• Autonomy and Planning: You will have the freedom to plan your own week, managing site inspections, meeting contractors, and carrying out annual resident check-ins to ensure any issues are addressed.
• Problem Solving: In this reactive role, you’ll need to be adaptable—managing your daily tasks while responding to urgent matters like emergency repairs, ensuring residents feel their concerns are prioritized.
• Supporting Residents: You’ll be involved in safeguarding situations, supporting vulnerable residents dealing with issues such as addiction, mental health, or abuse. We’re looking for someone who genuinely cares about the welfare of residents and can ensure positive outcomes.
• Collaboration and Office Work: You’ll be on your patch at least two days a week, with the remaining time spent in the office collaborating with colleagues to deliver the best services possible.

The Ideal Candidate: We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation. You’ll be tenacious and resilient, with solid problem-solving skills and previous experience in delivering customer service. You don’t necessarily need to have worked in housing before, but if you have, that would be a bonus. Most importantly, you’ll be someone who genuinely puts customers first, has a passion for our vision and mission, and makes our values visible every working day. Our Housing Officers are busy, so you will need to be flexible, resilient and able to easily switch from one task to another as priorities can quickly change throughout the day. You'll be proactive and customer-focused with the ability to communicate effectively to multiple audiences.

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.

Essential:

• Customer service experience including developing customer relationships
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to manage workload and prioritise accordingly, capable of quickly switching from one task to another
• Problem-solving skills
• Organisational skills
• Excellent computer skills including Microsoft Word and Excel

Desirable:

• Previous housing experience

What’s in it for you? Once you join us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You’ll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.

Benefits include:

• Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
• Generous pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
• Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling 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

Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 65,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,800 employees.

We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments.

To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit:

Selection Process:

• Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now!
• Step 2: Successful candidates will be invited to a screening call
• Step 3: Successful candidates will be invited to interview

Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via RecruitmentTeam@nhg.org.uk.

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 Basic check via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.