- Delivering a comprehensive rent and service charge collection service
- Negotiating payment arrangements with customers
- Providing welfare benefit and money advice
A new permanent opportunity for an
Income officer
to join our Clients'
Customer Accounts team
in Christchurch.
This is a full time permanent role with a mix of home and office working.
On offer is a starting salary of £30,000 - £35,000 depending on experience.
The role:
As an
Income Officer,
this will include customer accounts from mixed tenures and you'll be responsible for managing the end to end process.
As part of this role you'll be carry out a range of tasks including negotiating payment arrangements with customers, providing welfare benefit and money advice, managing eviction's and preparing applications for court. You'll be engaging with external agencies and local authorities when needed and on standby to visit customers in their home as well as occasionally attending court hearings.
To be successful in this role you'll need:
- Experience in income management or debt recovery/collection
- Knowledge and experience of either social housing, home ownership or the private rented sector
- Excellent customer service skills
- A working knowledge of welfare benefits
- To be a self-starter with a proactive approach and possess the ability to work without close supervision
- To have effective decision-making skills, a diplomatic and confidential approach and the ability to prioritise a busy workload.
As you'll need to travel in this role, having a car and full driving licence is essential.
A DBS check will also be undertaken for the successful candidate.
As a member of the Customer Accounts Team you will be part of a friendly, dedicated and supportive working environment.
Our client invest in their people, and you will be able to develop your skills and be part of something that makes a real difference to people's lives. This role can give you the opportunity for a career within a successful and diverse organisation.
Some of the benefits include:
- £450 yearly flexible benefit pot to use against benefits of your choice
- Flexible working
- 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)
- A chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package
- A generous pension scheme matching up to 12%
- Life cover as soon as you join us
- You will be a part of our Recognition scheme where you can be gifted retail vouchers
- A range of wellbeing discounts including Gym Memberships
- A wide selection of other benefits available
For further information about this role, please contact Specialist Social Housing recruiter, Mark Grove, on or apply via this site