Neighbourhood Officer, Newham
United Kingdom 1 month ago
Job Description
Neighbourhood Officer required to work for a large housing association on a contract basis.
Purpose:
* To deliver a responsive, efficient, agile, high quality and customer focused housing management service to residents.
* To build meaningful and trusting relationships with residents on patch.
* To own the primary relationship with residents living on patch and act as the voice of residents.
* To deliver reliable, repeatable, and consistent services in line with policies and standard operating procedures.
* To seek out resident views and to listen and act.
* To represent and champion residents.
* To act as the advocate for residents in getting things resolved at pace and quality.
* To co-ordinate issues on behalf of residents, making dealing with HA easy.
Key Responsibilities / Deliverables:
* Own the primary relationship between housing association and the residents on patch, irrespective of tenure, resolving issues with and on behalf of residents, to their satisfaction.
* Be the key point of contact for residents and be the‘voice of the resident’ across the organisation.
* Represent housing association at all activity relating to patch, examples being, resident forums, committees, residents' associations.
* Support housing association and residents with any business continuity issues or incidents.
* Communicate with residents in a timely manner, to a good standard and in a range of ways demonstrating empathy and care.
* Provide information and advice on all queries in relation to tenancy or property matters, taking advice and seeking information from relevant specialist teams as required.
* Know the itemised service charge information relating to patch and provide general information to residents about service charges, whilst also ensuring that charges are reasonable.
* Resolve incidents of nuisance and anti-social behaviour, referring into the ASB (Anti-Social Behaviour) service where appropriate.
* Investigate and resolve all issues on patch, such as (not exhaustive); waste management, fly-tipping, parked cars, abandoned vehicles, car parking, pets, graffiti, breaches of tenancy, etc.
* Make referrals for residents to receive additional support internally and externallywhere relevant.
* Carry out tenancy audits, inspections of homes and buildings, communal areas, open spaces, to ensure they are well maintained and comply with all regulations or inspection regimes.
* Complete necessary referrals for court action, work with in-house and external legal servicesto complete court papers and attend court as required.
* Identify, report, mitigate and escalate risks on patch.
* Complete Fire Risk Actions and other compliance related activity within relevant timescales.
* Assist in the resolution of MP/Cllr enquiries and informal and formal complaints.
* Co-create new services in collaboration with residents and engage with residents to provide clarity about the standards of service they should
Neighbourhood Officer, Newham
United Kingdom 1 month ago
Neighbourhood Officer required to work for a large housing association on a contract basis. Purpose: * To deliver a responsive, efficient, agile, high quality and customer focused housing management service to residents. * To build meaningful and...