Administrative Officer [Housing]

DescriptionJOB TITLE: Admin Officer [Housing]
LOCATION: Wandsworth SW18 1HR [possibility to work hybrid]
PAY RATE: £18.18 per hour paye / £24.41 per hour Umbrella
DURATION/HOURS: 3 months [possible extension]/ Mon-Fri 36 hours
START DATE: ASAP
Role purpose:
Responsible for the provision of effective and efficient administration, within a team providing housing management services to approximately 8000 properties.
Duties & responsibilities:
First point of contact on a repairs reporting telephone line and raising remedial orders as required, often for emergency repairs
Liaising with contractors and colleagues to work efficiently, ensuring the correct contractor and job priority is given to ensure repairs are carried out promptly adhering to health and safety guidelines
Gathering all required information from CIVICA for the Deputy Area Housing Manager in relation to disrepair cases when required.
Follow the duty rota for the team [ASB, Voids, Out of Hours Emergencies and Post] whilst ensuring adequate cover of reception and telephones, maintaining the highest standard of customer care.
Co-ordinating with Building Maintenance team, Allocations, and applicants to ensure that offers are made, viewings are arranged, and sign-up appointments are upheld
Responsible for generating tenancy agreements, selecting correct notices for ending tenancies, if appropriate, and handing keys to new tenants.
Making sure that the sign-up procedure is followed in a fair and transparent manner and that outside agencies are in attendance if required, e.g., translators and care co-ordinators etc
Ensuring that the legal implications of signing a tenancy are explained fully to new tenants and that all legal documents are endorsed correctly.
Open and close reception and manage the public area, ensuring callers are dealt with professionally and courteously
Responsible for the issue of all estate parking permits to residents in new and existing Traffic Management Orders [TMO], ensuring that the correct information is supplied and that appropriate records are maintained for audit purposes
Co-ordinating and forming positive working relationships with other departments
e.g
Allocations, Rents, Support Services, Estate Services and other Area Teams thus ensuring that all aspects of the role of team administrator is customer centred
Responsible for identifying rechargeable works, i.e leaseholder service charges and repair works that are the responsibility of the resident
Producing monthly invoices through the council's finance systems [Capita] ensuring that the correct coding structure is used therefore ensuring any monies due to the local authority are recovered
Collating supporting evidence for referral to Finance
Ensures that write backs and write-offs are dealt with accordingly.
Daily monitoring of the Housing Online [HOL] module within NPS ensuring all reported interactive repairs requests or inspections are actioned swiftly
Daily monitoring of personal task manager to identify new FFTT [Flexible Fixed Term Tenancy] processesKnowledge, skills & experience:
A good working knowledge of Excel, Word, Outlook, and the ability to learn other IT packages such as NPS.
Experience of communicating effectively with members of the public and contractors, both face to face and via telephone
Ability to draft letters and reports.
Public sector and housing experience [desirable]
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  • Umbrella
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Wandsworth, London
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