Community Housing Assistant
Earn £13.45 ph, Salary £26,300 per annum and great benefits including Health Cash Plan
Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw)
Gateshead
Home, a place where you belong
This is a great job opportunity to join Home Group’s awesome housing team, providing face to face customer support to our communities. If you like variety, meeting and supporting customers, and want to develop a career in housing, then this is the perfect job for you!
What’s in it for you?
34 days leave (this includes bank holidays and a "me day"!), increasing to 39
Health cash plan saving you (and your children) £1140+ each year covering dental, opticians, prescriptions and more
800+ discounts on shops, holidays, days out, tech and more
Instant pay access with Stream
Career path with development and excellent training package.
What you’ll do
Be visible and proactive on our estates to build strong links with our communities
Support housing managers with their patches to improve neighbourhoods
Handle tasks like managing voids, liaising with local authorities, carrying out estate inspections and meeting contractors on site
Complete and record routine safety checks in buildings and communities
Keep admin up to date, including records, ordering and arranging payments for works
Why join us
This is more than a job, it’s a place where you feel valued. You get great training, support from friendly colleagues and a chance to make a real difference every day. Be part of one of the UK’s top Great Places to Work!
You have
A positive, can-do attitude, stay organised and take initiative
A real passion for delivering excellent customer service and a genuine desire to help your customers.
Confidence working collaboratively with colleagues in other parts of the business and external partners
Knowledge of housing management and housing law, universal credit is a bonus, not a must
The ability to use technology to navigate our systems and update customer records
An appreciation that this is a role where you’ll spend much of your time lone working in our local estates.
Strongertogether
We do our best work when we’re ourselves. That’s why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work!
The practical bits
You’ll work as our Community Housing Assistant in a hybrid role, spending at least two days in the office, one day working from home, and two days out on patch in Gateshead.
Flexible working hours. There may be some flexibility to adapt your working hours, do let us know about this when you meet us at the interview
We mainly work Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm. The great news is that you’ll be able to shape your own diary
You need to be able to drive and have access to your own vehicle insured for business purposes
You’ll need a Standard DBS check done and we pay for that
Find out more
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Roles can close early, so don’t wait. For reasonable adjustments email recruitment@homegroup.org.uk

We're Home Group, a housing association, social enterprise and charity with a turnover of £505m and one of the UK's largest providers of high quality housing and integrated housing, health and social care.
We're proud of the difference that we have made over the last 90+ years and we continue to work hard to support over 125,000 customers who live in more than 57,000 homes across England and Scotland.
Our aim is to build homes, independence and aspirations and according to our trophy cabinet we’re pretty good at it! We're the 9th best place to work in the UK, the 4th best in the North East and the 8th best for women. Our apprenticeship programme is award winning; in 2019 we were named large employer of the year and large north east employer of the year in 2020.
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