Retirement Housing Officer- Fixed-term Contract - Skegness, United Kingdom - Platform Housing Group

Platform Housing Group

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Skegness, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Are you a People Person?

We have an opportunity for a Retirement Housing Officer to join our specialist housing team based in Skegness, with occasional travel to nearby schemes and Platform Housing offices when required.

Here at Platform we believe in making a difference to people's lives and we work to achieve this by providing the best levels of service to our residents and always approaching challenges with a can-do attitude.

If you want to make a genuine difference with the work you do, this might be the right role for you

If you have experience working with older people in sheltered housing, housing management, residential care, home care, social services, or health services and have worked with a range of voluntary and statutory agencies to secure and coordinate care and support for older people, then we want to hear from you

You will also participate in an out of hours standby rota, a minimum of two weeks per year, to provide occasional phone based support to our Retirement Living schemes.

Remuneration of £180 per week on standby would apply.

This role is a 12 month fixed-term contract running up until August 2024.

What could you be doing?
As a Retirement Housing Officer, you will be providing a housing and tenancy management service to maximise tenancy sustainment. You'll be a regular and flexible customer contact for the residents, providing practical and preventative support and advice.

As well as this, you will signpost to specialist care and support services to maximise wellbeing, social interaction and minimise isolation.

You provide effective building management, including property inspections, risk assessments, H&S monitoring and compliance checks.

Responding, investigating and taking timely action to reported breaches of tenancy/leasehold agreements will be a key part of the role.

Some things we need from you:

You will be customer focused and may have experience of working with customers to solve complex issues
An awareness of working with vulnerable Adults would be desirable
Great interpersonal skills, and used to communicating with people from diverse backgrounds
Keen to deliver high standards with an ability to look to improve services too
Confidence using digital devices, ICT software and systems
An Enhanced DBS check is also required for this role.

Some of our great benefits include:

28 days annual leave (pro rata) with the opportunity to buy and sell leave
Family friendly policies
Medicash health plan membership for all employees which includes access to an employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership and exclusive discounts
Non

- contributory Health & Wellbeing plans with cashback for dental, optical, physio and complementary therapies

Reward & Recognition scheme with retailer discounts and cash back
Pension Salary Sacrifice contribution scheme with employer contributions of up to 8% (inclusive of life assurance and dependent on employee contributions)
Supportive working environment with great learning and development opportunities
If this sounds like the role for you and you want to find out more, please contact _._