Housing Officer

Housing Officer
Who are Acis?

We are a welcoming and friendly organisation who own and manage more than 7,000 properties across the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber, helping thousands of people in our communities every single day. This includes homes for affordable rent, homes for students and homes for older people. We even develop new homes to help people get on the property ladder. In addition to this, we provide Student accommodation. We support over 4000 learners a year with everything from entry level qualifications, arts and wellbeing courses through to employability support to help people fulfil their potential. This is through Riverside Training, our employment and skills team, and CLIP, an education provider.
Your role is all about being the face of Acis in our communities. You’ll be at the front line, making a real difference to our customer’s lives and taking great satisfaction in that.
Please note this is a job share due to internal progression. As such communication and teamwork is paramount to this position. 
As an Area Service Manager, a typical day might include:

• Being out and about amongst our communities and customers 
• Understanding tenancy issues and helping guide next steps. 
• Helping customers find and settle in their new home through property viewings and sign ups. 
• Working closely with a variety of stakeholders on estate management issues 
• Investigating and responding to antisocial behaviour 
• Seeking access to properties for servicing and repairs, especially for gas safety checks 
• Carrying out Neighbourhood Audits to identify any health and safety risks, improvements that could be made and other issues such as fly tipping and repairs.
• Supporting and working with various agencies and partners  
• Inspections and checks of our over 55’s accommodation including legionella and fire regulations checks.

Some of the experience/skills we need to consider you: 

• A good standard of education (minimum Level 2 Numeracy & Literacy, or equivalent) 
• Computer literacy and have a good working knowledge of PC based office management systems – you will need to use these to do the job. 
• A strong customer focussed approach both externally and internally. 
• Be committed to working as part of our team.  
• Direct housing management experience and an expectation that you will work in a result driven, and outcome focussed environment.  
• Be motivated, adaptable, determined, and able to work on your own initiative to resolve problems and achieve positive solutions. 
• An ability to communicate effectively.  
• Resilience. Working in social housing is a challenging but rewarding career, you’ll be helping to bring real change to our customer’s lives. 

What will make you stand out from the crowd:

• A housing management qualification would be of benefit. 
• It would be great if you have some knowledge of community development – we want to play our part in creating and supporting thriving communities and neighbourhoods. 
• You’ll be adept at change, having got hands on experience living and breathing new ways of working and knowing how to bring your colleagues along for the experience. 

Being part of the Acis team, you’ll get:

• Generous holiday entitlement –  25 days leave plus bank holidays (pro rata)
• Enhanced pension contributions up to 10%
• The opportunity to undertake professional training, funded by us.
• One days paid leave a year for volunteering work (in addition to your Annual leave entitlement)
• Staff benefits with Paycare – A health and benefits scheme giving you support and contributions towards various health benefits such as counselling, eye tests, vaccinations and much more
• Benefits with Acis Perkz – a discount scheme giving you savings off hundreds of schemes including discounts on your coffee, weekly shop, days out and much more!
• Employee recognition scheme, where we celebrate and award our Stars within Acis, including gift vouchers
• Long service awards for our loyal employees
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced sick pay scheme 
• Enhanced maternity and paternity scheme to support you and your family
• Employee Assistance Programme to give you confidential advice and support, when you need it
• Professional membership subscription to support your continuous professional development
• Death in service benefit 

As soon as a suitable candidate is found for this role we reserve the right to close the job advert ahead of the closing date, so please do not delay in submitting your application.
Acis are committed to equality and diversity, are a proud member of disability confident and welcome applications from any applicant who feel they hold the essential skills to fulfil the role. We recognise that people need flexibility in their role and we’re happy to discuss flexible working options with the successful candidate
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