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Home Ownership Officer - Consultation

Employer
Lewisham Homes
Location
Lewisham, SE64RU
Salary
£31,434 - £33,473
Closing date
21 Mar 2021

The Role

 At Lewisham Homes, we believe in building on potential. As a Home Ownership Officer, your ability to value and empower staff to embrace, develop and accept change could have a real impact on people’s lives.

Lewisham Homes is an ambitious not-for-profit organisation focused on improving housing in the borough. As well as managing 19,000 homes on behalf of Lewisham Council. We aim to provide a better experience and more opportunities for residents, communities – and the dedicated people who join our growing team.

As Home Ownership Officer, you will be responsible for providing a high quality, customer focused and responsive Right to Buy & Home Ownership service to Lewisham Homes residents.

If successful the main duties of your role will be to:
• Proactively manage a variety of RTB and home ownership functions within procedural & legislative deadlines.
• Have a thorough knowledge and understanding of RTB / Collection / Service Charge legislation and communicate this clearly and precisely to others in writing, interview and telephone
• Consult with leaseholders (statutory & non-statutory consultation) & assist with applications for dispensation
• Build good working relationships with the local Tenant and Residents' Associations. Attend out of hours meetings as required.
• Respond to correspondence and complaints, and provide drafts for member's enquiries.
• Identify and record details of vulnerable residents, signpost residents for support as required.
• Ensure safeguarding concerns are acted on immediately and in compliance with the safeguarding procedure.
• Investigate complex cases, work collaboratively with other departments, partners and stakeholders to ensure multi agency responses to complex cases and carry out home / estate visits / inspections in a lone working capacity as required.
• Take legal action as necessary. Ensure all legal paperwork is completed to a high standard. Attend court hearings (including tribunal & mediation), representing the organisation positively at all times.   Keep up to date with all relevant legislation and good practice issues relating to the role.

We expect everyone at Lewisham Homes to be eager to learn new skills and to help others. As a major local employer with over 500 staff, we are committed to providing opportunities for personal development, plus flexible and agile working to help us to continue to embrace wellbeing. We also offer benefits including: season ticket loan, 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, health & wellbeing benefits and membership of the local government pension scheme.

Benefits

Annual Leave:  26 Days
Hours of Work: 36 hours

Family friendly policies and benefits including:

  • Childcare vouchers
  • Career average final salary pension scheme
  • Discounts for local eateries

Contact Us
 
recruitment@lewishamhomes.org.uk for technical queries

Please note jobs close on the date stated In the advert at 23:59  

Closing date

The closing date for applications is Sunday, 21 March 2021

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