Community Housing Assistant
Home Group Limited
Smith's Green · posted 19 August 2026
Salary
£26,000 a year
Location
Smith's Green, Essex
Category
Social Care
About the role
Scroll down to find the complete details of the job offer, including experience required and associated duties and tasks.
Salary circa £26,300per annum and great benefits including Health Cash Plan
Home, a place where you belong
As a Community Housing Assistant, you'll play a key role in supporting Housing Managers to deliver excellent housing management services across our communities. You'll provide a proactive, customer-focused service, helping customers sustain their tenancies, resolve issues early, and navigate housing-related processes.
What youll do
Support customers to sustain their tenancies through regular contact, practical assistance, and signposting, while monitoring progress and escalating concerns to Housing Managers. Deliver neighbourhood and community management services by investigating low-level anti-social behaviour, maintaining records, providing advice, and monitoring cases for escalation. Manage voids and lettings administration, maintaining trackers and keeping systems up to date.
Coordinate mutual exchanges, completing tenancy checks, supporting home visits, and liaising with customers, colleagues, and partners throughout the process. Support compliance and performance activities by arranging customer appointments, maintaining accurate records, and escalating safeguarding, vulnerability, and compliance concerns where needed.
Why join us
This is more than a job, its 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 UKs Great Places to Work! We cant offer a CoS for this role.
You have
Experience working in housing management, customer services, community services, or a related environment. Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently while knowing when to escalate concerns. Flexible and adaptable in a fast-paced environment. Strong attention to detail and commitment to service excellence.
Knowledge of tenancy sustainment and safeguarding principles. Experience maintaining accurate records and updating case management systems
Stronger together
We do our best work when were ourselves. Thats why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work!
The practical bits
The position is primarily home and community based (two days per week), with regular attendance required at our office in Thremhall Park, Bishop's Stortford. This position will cover the following areas:North Herts, Northstowe, Fenland, Stevenage with travel across other patches in Essex regularly as and when needed.
We mainly work Monday to Friday and work occasional evenings to meet with customers. The great news is that youll 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 (we pay for the mileage).Occasionally, you may be required to travel at short notice, so we're looking for someone who is flexible and willing to travel when needed.
Youll need a Standard DBS check done and we pay for that
Whats 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. xwzovoh
Finally
For reasonable adjustments email . Roles can close early, so dont delay applying. If you cant see the Job Description at the top of this page, click APPLY to view it on our pages and find out more about us.
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Scroll down to find the complete details of the job offer, including experience required and associated duties and tasks.
Salary circa £26,300per annum and great benefits including Health Cash Plan
Home, a place where you belong
As a Community Housing Assistant, you'll play a key role in supporting Housing Managers to deliver excellent housing management services across our communities. You'll provide a proactive, customer-focused service, helping customers sustain their tenancies, resolve issues early, and navigate housing-related processes.
What youll do
Support customers to sustain their tenancies through regular contact, practical assistance, and signposting, while monitoring progress and escalating concerns to Housing Managers. Deliver neighbourhood and community management services by investigating low-level anti-social behaviour, maintaining records, providing advice, and monitoring cases for escalation. Manage voids and lettings administration, maintaining trackers and keeping systems up to date.
Coordinate mutual exchanges, completing tenancy checks, supporting home visits, and liaising with customers, colleagues, and partners throughout the process. Support compliance and performance activities by arranging customer appointments, maintaining accurate records, and escalating safeguarding, vulnerability, and compliance concerns where needed.
Why join us
This is more than a job, its 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 UKs Great Places to Work! We cant offer a CoS for this role.
You have
Experience working in housing management, customer services, community services, or a related environment. Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently while knowing when to escalate concerns. Flexible and adaptable in a fast-paced environment. Strong attention to detail and commitment to service excellence.
Knowledge of tenancy sustainment and safeguarding principles. Experience maintaining accurate records and updating case management systems
Stronger together
We do our best work when were ourselves. Thats why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work!
The practical bits
The position is primarily home and community based (two days per week), with regular attendance required at our office in Thremhall Park, Bishop's Stortford. This position will cover the following areas:North Herts, Northstowe, Fenland, Stevenage with travel across other patches in Essex regularly as and when needed.
We mainly work Monday to Friday and work occasional evenings to meet with customers. The great news is that youll 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 (we pay for the mileage).Occasionally, you may be required to travel at short notice, so we're looking for someone who is flexible and willing to travel when needed.
Youll need a Standard DBS check done and we pay for that
Whats 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. xwzovoh
Finally
For reasonable adjustments email . Roles can close early, so dont delay applying. If you cant see the Job Description at the top of this page, click APPLY to view it on our pages and find out more about us.