Housing and Customer Services Coordinator

Housing and Customer Services Coordinator

Job Introduction

Job Title: Housing and Customer Service Coordinator

Contract: Permanent

Location: Brunswick Gardens, Woodhouse, Sheffield

Weekly Hours: 35

So…. What is this role exactly?

This is an exciting opportunity for a front-line Housing Coordinator to join our Brunswick Gardens, Woodhouse, Sheffield team (retirement living), and deliver a high quality, customer focused and proactive housing management service that meets the needs and requirements of older people.

You will often be a first point of contact for our customers, other internal teams and stakeholders, for specialist advice and assistance on a wide range of housing management related queries or issues and will be passionate about ensuring that customers can enjoy a safe, comfortable environment in their homes and continue to live as independently as possible.

What will my working week look like?

The core hours for our customers are 9am to 5pm so we need to ensure adequate cover is in place to support our service offer.

You will be based at Brunswick Gardens, Woodhouse, Sheffield.

What will I be responsible for doing?

You will play a key role in our customers lives from the very first contact, and will support with:

• Letting properties, from enquiry through to customers moving into their new home.
• Regular checks to ensure the safety, wellbeing and safeguarding of our customers.
• Effective and supportive housing management throughout the tenancy including, when needed tenancy enforcement and investigating low level anti-social behaviour through to resolution.
• Maintaining a positive climate for resident engagement, including supporting and leading at customer meetings, housing surgeries and listening and responding to all feedback, whether positive or negative in line with our customer values and business priorities.

One of the great things about this role is having the opportunity to make a real difference for our customers and communities. Ultimately, you will be driven to get things right first time to achieve successful outcomes for our customers.

It’s a given, you will have excellent communication skills and be a true people person always on the lookout for opportunities to improve and enhance YHG’s service to our customers.

And what would make me stand out from the crowd?

To be a successful as a Housing and Customer Service Coordinator, here at YHG, you will have:

• Some knowledge of housing management legislation and housing/tenancy management principles
• Experience of delivering exemplary customer service ideally to older people
• Ability to build positive relationships with a diverse range of people
• Ability to travel easily between sites where needed and a flexible, proactive approach

Ideally you will be:

• A flexible and collaborative team player with the ability to create a positive environment and listen to customers, putting them first
• Able to effectively engage with internal and external stakeholders and key partners
• Resilient and adaptable, able to prioritise a busy and reactive workload
• A great communicator, written and verbal, with excellent attention to detail

This role is really suited to someone who likes to positively engage with a diverse range of people to get things right first time and produce excellent results for customers, colleagues and the wider community.

If you feel this could be the right role for you, we would love to hear from you!

Please check out the role profile, which is attached/available by visiting the vacancy on Your Housing Group’s website - www.yourhousinggroup.co.uk/careers.

That all sounds great, what’s in it for me?

In return we offer £26,000 for a 35-hour week, and 25 days annual leave (holidays also increase with time served) plus Bank Holidays, but our employee offering provides much more than just a competitive salary and holiday allowance.

Although you are based at Brunswick Gardens, you will also have access to Youggle House – our wellbeing, social, collaboration and meeting space in Birchwood, Warrington - you may be asked to travel to Youggle House to meet up with your wider team for meetings and training when required.

On top of this, we’ll provide you with a great benefits package, including a contributory pension where we match whatever you choose to contribute (up to 8%), an advanced level Healthcare cash plan, that doesn’t just provide dental and optician cashback but also health and wellbeing benefits (such as 24/7 GP Access, money back from prescriptions and alternative therapy treatments) and an amazing discount scheme that gives you access to half price cinema tickets, subsidised gym memberships and a huge range of discounts with some of the biggest high street and online names.

For more of our great benefits, please see the benefits information sheet attached/available by visiting the vacancy on Your Housing Group’s career’s website - www.yourhousinggroup.co.uk/careers.

And who are Your Housing Group?

Your Housing Group is a registered social landlord helping people at every stage of life to live in quality homes they can afford.

As one of the North’s sector-leading landlords, we are proud to play our role in tackling the UK's housing crisis by continually reinvesting in our 29,000 properties and tailoring our services to meet the diverse needs of our customers. We also build over 1,000 new homes each year.

We’re an employer of choice, over 88% of colleagues here recommend us as a 'great place to work'.

Additions

As part of our pre-employment checks, this role requires the successful applicant to complete a satisfactory Basic DBS check.

Closing Date: 7th April 2025

We review applications as they’re received and reserve the right to close this advert early; if you’re interested, please apply ASAP to avoid disappointment.

Your Housing Group values diversity and encourages applications from all communities. Your Housing Group operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for any applicants who declare they have a disability, if these applicants meet the minimum requirements for the role (as set out in the role profile and/or person specification) they will be guaranteed an interview.