Neighbourhood Officer
Salary £41,082
Location Manchester - Agile
Permanent, Full Time, 35 hours per a week
Closing date: 29th August 2024
Potential Interview date: TBC
Support our communities. See the difference you can make in our city.
At One Manchester we are passionate about providing good quality homes, great services and real opportunities for customers and communities. We are more than just a landlord. We invest in new and existing homes, provide money advice and wellbeing, employment and training support and build strong partnerships to support inclusive growth.
We are expanding and seeking a Neighbourhood Officer who can proactively lead the delivery of a customer-focused service in a defined geographical area. You'll deliver a high-quality housing and tenancy service, working mainly in a designated neighbourhood, you will help to create a sustainable and thriving neighbourhood, customer independence.
You will be encouraged to be innovative and work autonomously in the delivery of neighbourhood services, with a solution focused approach to overcome challenges and contribute to thriving communities, as well as helping deliver an exceptional 'first point of contact resolution' customer experience.
What we're looking for:
- Experience of working in the housing sector or similar role delivering services to customers providing high-quality, responsive and proactive tenancy and neighbourhood management and related services including anti-social behaviour, arrears recovery and allocations
- Understanding of property condition issues with a commitment to maintaining the condition and appearance of properties, estates and neighbourhoods.
- Experience of delivering a high standard of customer service with demonstrable initiative and problem-solving skills.
- Experience of working collaboratively building successful working relationships with key stakeholders, partners and customers to achieve strong community and neighbourhood regeneration.
- Able to lone work safely and effectively, delivering high quality services in field-based settings.
- Demonstrable experience of Safeguarding; raising concerns through policies and procedures.
- Good IT literacy
If you have applied for this role within the past six months, please note that we will review your previous application. Therefore, it is not necessary for you to reapply.
Why take up the challenge with One Manchester? This really is a great place to work. We've bags of potential and have huge opportunities waiting to be unlocked. Supportive and flexible, we're rightly proud of our work and excited about the future. So, challenge yourself to be creative and ambitious and see the difference you can make in our great city.
If this sounds like you then apply today, we'd love to hear from you!
We own and manage over 12,000 homes in central, south and east Manchester. We have one purpose: to provide good quality homes, great services, and real opportunities for our customers and communities. Our role as a trusted Registered Provider of Social Housing goes well beyond putting people in safe and secure homes. That's not to say it's not one our key priorities, it's simply one of the many things we do to help our customers live happy and fulfilled lives. We put people at the heart of everything we do. We're constantly evolving as a business to ensure we're supporting our customers and communities. We focus on improving our communities by offering a range of services, including employment opportunities, building new developments, and ensuring our customers have safe homes to live in.
In accordance with the aims of our Equality and Diversity strategy and organisational commitment to address the employment of underrepresented groups, One Manchester is operating 'the Rooney Rule'. This means that we aim to interview at least one ethnically diverse candidate for all roles. We will also interview at least one female candidate for all our roles within our trades and facilities teams where we experience an under representation.
One Manchester strives for equality, diversity and inclusion in all that we do. We positively encourage applications for employment from eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
We are transitioning to a culture where agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also try to support and promote a culture of flexible working where possible and practical. If you are interested in a role but require flexibility or part time hours please give us a call and we can let you know if this can be considered for a particular role.