Housing Officer

Salary:£28,624 - £31,067per annum, pro Rata, depending on experience

Hours: Full time 37.5 Hours

Location: Kingswood, Bristol

Contract Type:Permanent

Additional Information:DHI offers up to 31 days paid leave (service related) in addition to statutory holidays, a 7% pension contribution and Employee Assistance Scheme.

DHI are currently recruiting a Housing Officer to join our Home Turf Lettings Team who will be responsible for a portfolio of tenancies and properties (approximately 50 units); ensuring HTL tenants are able to sustain and succeed in their tenancies and delivering excellent property management.

Home Turf Lettings is a social lettings agency working across Bristol, South Gloucestershire and Bath and North East Somerset to provide long term affordable homes for people who are homeless or threatened with homelessness. We have helped hundreds of tenants find quality, affordable accommodation within the private rented sector.

You will be joining an experienced team of property and support professionals that work hard to support each other, and to deliver an exceptional service to our clients

A Driving Licence with access to vehicle and willingness to use it for work travel is essential.

About You

At DHI we highly value transferable skills and life experience. If you have good organisational skills, can manage relationships, solve problems, and are resilient, adaptable and flexible then we would love to hear from you.

Your background could be from anywhere where you have needed to apply problem solving and motivational skills. Teaching, ex-armed forces, customer service are all examples of just some professions where we believe these transferable skills are often found, or you may have lived experience.

Our Values

We are an award winning charity that challenges social exclusion by supporting people to achieve their potential and our values underpin this.

If you share DHIs values of flexibility, stimulation, self- direction and zest for life, then we encourage you to apply.

We look forward to exploring these with you during the interview process should you be successful at the shortlisting stage.

What We Offer

We offer a variety of training to enable the successful candidate to develop and thrive within this role including within motivational interviewing techniques, professional boundaries and housing.

As an employee of DHI, you will have also access to our Employee Assistance Programme, our Cycle Scheme, 26 days paid annual leave/up to 31 days paid leave (service-related) , company pension scheme andCharity Worker Discounts.You will also have the option to take part in DHIs on-call service which is paid at an additional £100 per week.

Next Steps

If youd like to know more about the role contact:David Roffeyto arrange an informal discussion. Or to apply for the Supported Housing Worker vacancy please follow the link below:

To apply for this role please provide a CV and covering letterbymidday on 21st November 2024.

Applications will be reviewed and interviews conducted on a rolling basis, vacancies may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoiddisappointment.

All applicants are required to submit a covering letter that should address the following questions in no more than 500 words maximum.

1. State how you meet the requirements within the Person Specification
2. What do our core values mean to you in relation to this role?

We strongly encourage you to complete our Equality & Diversity monitoring form to help us achieve a diverse workforce. The form does not form part of the selection process. Please also tell us where you saw the post advertised.

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