Estates - Housing Officer

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Sheffield City Council as a Housing Officer within our Estates Team.

We are looking for highly motivated, enthusiastic, and keen individual who is passionate about keeping our neighbourhoods clean and safe.

Are you hard working and able to work well as part of a team?

Have you got excellent IT and communication skills and can deliver excellent customer care?

As part of the team, you will be required to undertake Health and safety checks of our flats. Keeping very concise records while following our policy and procedures. Dealing with customer complaints and any Housing issues including reporting repairs.

Full training will be given.

You will need to show a basic understanding of numeracy and literacy as you will have the use of I.T equipment to record your work and complete online training.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups.  We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.