Summary

What you'll do

The Supported Housing Assistant assists the Supported Housing Officers to deliver housing management, and being actively involved in organising activities for our vulnerable residents. We know that having a safe, secure home is fundamental to everyone's wellbeing. Your role will often include working in partnership with other agencies and advocating for residents, as well as setting clear expectations with residents, so they consistently have the information and assistance to sustain their tenancies.

How you'll do it

You will provide an excellent response to vulnerable residents, working from the scheme itself. Helping with day to day issues on the site and use your passion and enthusiasm to facilitate a connected community where people want to live.

You will be personally committed to delivering the highest quality housing management services. You will assist the SHO with ensuring that our homes are well-managed, with minimised voids, maximised income, and above all offer positive environments for our residents. This is a challenging and rewarding role.

You will provide an excellent response to vulnerable residents, working from the scheme itself. You will conduct wellbeing visits, ensure new residents settle in, helping with day to day issues on the site and use your passion and enthusiasm to facilitate a connected community where people want to live.

You will play a key part of our team of frontline staff, assisting Supported Housing Officers to deliver safe, caring and high quality services to our residents.

The ideal candidate

We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation.

Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification.

You will be adept at-risk management, have good judgement, strong interpersonal skills and a passion for excellent customer service.

Essential:

• Experience providing a customer focused service, providing support to customers with similar needs to those within the post's remit, in a social care or social housing environment.
• Good working knowledge of the service's customer group
• Experience working alongside multiple teams/agencies

What's in it for you?

Once you join us, you'll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You'll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.

Benefits include:

• Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
• Generous pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
• Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
• Health cash plan
• Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
• Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Life Assurance x 4 annual salary

All about us

Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 60,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,500 staff.

For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/

We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments. To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/diversity-is-our-strength/

Selection Process

Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now! Closing date is Friday 15th August

Step 2: Successful candidates will be invited to interview and assessment

Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via .  

Should a redeployee apply for this role, their application will be considered before any others.

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to an Enhanced check via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.