Independent Living Housing Officer - 9 month fixed term contract

at  Aster Group

INDEPENDENT LIVING HOUSING OFFICER - 9 MONTH FIXED TERM CONTRACT

Location: Dorset
Salary: £25,183 per annum (£31,058 FTE)
Hours: 30 hours per week
Closing Date: {Expiry Date}
We have an interesting opportunity for an Independent Living Housing Officer to join the team for a 9 month fixed term contract. This is a part time role for 30 hours per week.
You’ll be working in our Dorset region, mainly in Wimborne and Beer Regis and the surrounding area, which is a lovely area to work in.
As a Housing Officer you’ll be providing housing management services to customers living within our independent housing properties, taking a holistic approach, ensuring an enhanced service is offered.
You’ll be seen a someone who is able to deliver a reliable customer service in a professional and confident manner. You’ll have great communications skills and will be a natural problem solver, ensuring the job gets done.
Our aim is to enable our customers to live as independently as possible in their homes, ensuring that additional support is put into place when needed.
You’ll be present in the community meeting customers in their homes and will be a dedicated point of contact. You’ll have the ability to adapt your day to suit change in demands and won’t be phased by a busy workload.
You may also find yourself, arranging scheme meetings, facilitating social inclusion activities and completing health and safety risk assessments, so no two days will be the same.
You will come to the role with knowledge of the housing sector and current housing issues. Alongside a strong understanding of the needs of older, disabled and vulnerable customers and the services that can be accessed for them.
You’ll be able to demonstrate your resilience, giving examples of when you have worked in challenging, emotive situations and how you’ve been able to apply empathy and patience.
You will be a natural problem solver, a ‘can do’ person, always keen to see a task through to the end. You’ll also consider yourself to be very organised, a strong record keeper and someone who is able to meet deadlines.
You will be a great communicator, able to adapt your style to your audience and you will be confident in your admin and IT skills, to complete the ‘paperwork’ element of the role.
As you’ll be out and about in the community you will need a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes.

We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:

• Flexible working – whilst some roles need to be carried out in a specific place at a specific time, where possible we encourage our colleagues to work to their own schedule at a location that suits them, their team and our business’ needs
• A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
• We invest in colleagues’ careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
• Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
• Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
• Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
• Enhanced leave
• We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives

To apply, please use information provided in the advert and role profile to let us know why you’d be good for the job. Please submit a copy of your up-to-date CV along with a supporting statement.
We create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and believe that creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work is the right thing to do.

Please refer the Job description for details