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Large Housing Association seeks a Voids and Lettings Coordinator to elevate the standards in voids, allocations, and lettings processes across the entirety of their portfolio. Responsibilities: Oversee the voids, allocations, and lettings processes, ensuring strict adherence to legislative, regulatory, and contractual requirements. Respond promptly to lettings, allocations, and rehousing enquiries from customers, stakeholders, and colleagues, providing clear and transparent information. Collaborate with housing officers to arrange viewings, manage shortlists, and facilitate the overall letting process in a timely and compliant manner. Managing all lettings and transfers, by working collaboratively with customers and colleagues. Managing the allocations of homes in cases of priority/management transfers - ensuring cases are managed sensitively, in line with policy, and in collaboration with relevant internal and external stakeholders. Support the teams to complete tenancy changes (for example successions, assignments, discretionary tenancies, and mutual exchanges) ensuring best use of the homes. To respond to lettings, allocations and rehousing enquiries from customers, stakeholders, and colleagues, including MP/Councillor enquiries and questions or feedback about services. Minimise re-let times of available homes and work with others (e.g. renew) to review lets against urgent needs e.g. decants. Co-ordinate the completion of all required property processes and documents to allow efficient letting of the property, to include Gas Certificates, Electrical Performance Certificates, EPCs, post inspections, keys, offer letters, etc. Experience and skills: Experience across a range of housing functions such as lettings and allocations, housing options. Solid understanding of housing law and processes related to the allocation of social housing. Customer-focused approach, conducting functions in a sensitive, compliant, responsible, and transparent manner. Detail focused, with the ability to ensure strict compliance with general and scheme specific nomination agreements. Proven experience in delivering excellent customer service with strong interpersonal skills, adhering to best practices and achieving best value. Good working knowledge of appropriate housing, tenancy, property legislation, and industry best practices. £20.84 ph PAYE - £27.56 ph Umbrella

A Large Housing Association is looking for a Housing Officer on an ongoing temporary basis to look after residents in a variety of locations in Central London. Key responsibilities as follows Responsible and accountable to residents for providing an excellent, empathetic and personal housing management service This includes regular communication and meetings with each resident at home, and being responsible for ensuring that any issues they have raised are resolved appropriately Achieve this by working creatively on your own as well as part of a wider team, including but not exclusively, the customer service centre and the Asset's team You will be connected to tenants - in their communities ensuring residents are offered the right support to maintain their tenancies, be happy in their homes and get on with their lives. Always keep your promise to tenants by getting back to them within agreed timescales and tasks. Ensure residents are kept safe by following safeguarding procedures and working closely with external statutory authorities. Responsible for ensuring tenancies are managed effectively, tackling unacceptable behaviour in an open and constructive manner. Work alongside residents to ensure we offer the right support to sustain tenancies. Manage void properties to be ready to let to "void standard" as quickly as possible including specifying work orders on standard voids. Always follow the lettings procedure ensuring an effective audit trail. Identify support needs and effective partners to support tenants as the start of their tenancy. Repairs Responsible for authorising work orders to budget. Work with Asset Management colleagues to resolve complex repairs in a timely manner. Income Collection and debt management Account for services accurately to ensure service charges are transparent and fair to residents Set service charges with support from the central service team Visiting Arrange to meet residents in their home to understand their needs and desires for the future. Identify any repairs needed in the property and order these as well as record Essential Previous experience as a Housing Officer is preferred Exceptional customer service skills Excellent communicator £19.50 - £20.84 PAYE or £25.78 - £27.56 ph Umbrella