Interim Housing Advisor
Location: Central London (hybrid after induction)
Contract: Temporary, 3 months
Hours: 35 per week
Rate: £17.84 per hour + £2.15 holiday pay
Start: ASAP
Prospectus is pleased to be supporting a long-established organisation that provides safe, suitable housing for retired professionals across the UK. The organisation manages a national portfolio of homes and is committed to delivering compassionate, customer-focused support to its residents.
We are assisting them in the search for an Interim Housing Advisor to deliver high-quality housing services and ensure residents receive excellent support, safeguarding, and tenancy management.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Contacting residents to update next-of-kin details, health or vulnerability information, and repair needs.
- Providing sensitive and effective customer service to elderly residents.
- Managing tenancy processes including sustainment, queries, and end-of-tenancy tasks.
- Recording and updating resident information accurately in Homemaster.
- Monitoring rent accounts, proactively addressing arrears, and supporting direct debit setup.
- Liaising with surveyors on repairs, property inspections, and voids.
- Ensuring all actions comply with safeguarding, GDPR, and RMHS policies.
About You
You will bring strong housing sector experience, excellent interpersonal skills, and a commitment to delivering high-quality service.
You will have:
- Experience in housing roles such as Housing Officer or Housing Advisor.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage sensitively with older residents.
- Strong organisational skills, accuracy, and confidence managing your workload independently.
- Good IT capability, including MS365 and database systems.
- Experience handling tenancy management, casework, or customer-facing housing queries.
- Understanding of data protection and safeguarding practices.
- (Desirable) Experience with Homemaster, Allpay, or housing legislation knowledge.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so please apply ASAP by submitting your CV in Word format.
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