Housing Officer – Leominster, Surrounding Areas
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Job Description
Housing Officer managing tenancies, inspections, safeguarding and resident support across Leominster and surrounding areas. Delivering local housing services for Stonewater, a UK social housing provider.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the full tenancy lifecycle, from sign-up through to end of tenancy
- Handle tenancy changes, mutual exchanges, and investigations into tenancy breaches or fraud
- Support lettings and voids activity to minimise rent loss and turnaround times
- Carry out estate inspections and address neighbourhood and environmental issues
- Manage low-level anti-social behaviour and neighbour disputes, and support more complex cases
- Identify and respond to vulnerability, safeguarding, hoarding, and non-access cases
- Complete person-centred fire risk assessments and monitor health and safety issues
- Investigate complaints and learn from outcomes to improve services
- Work in partnership with local authorities and external agencies to support customers
- Act as the key point of contact for residents across a defined patch
- Deliver respectful, personalised, and trauma-informed services in line with Stonewater’s Customer Promise
Requirements:
- Experience of housing management or a similar customer-facing role
- Experience of tenancy, estate management, lettings or neighbourhood services within social housing
- Knowledge of housing legislation, including safeguarding, ASB and welfare reform
- Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to work calmly under pressure
- A customer-focused mindset, with a commitment to equality, inclusion and trauma-informed practice
- Confidence using digital systems and data to manage cases and improve performance
- Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and make sound day-to-day decisions
- Comfortable working flexibly, including participating in an out-of-hours rota where required
- Satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check (if applicable)
- Satisfactory references
- Valid Right to Work document
- Specific qualifications, skills, knowledge, and behaviours may be required to meet the Competence and Conduct Standard for Social Housing
Benefits:
- £3,715 Car Allowance
- Flexible working, including participation in an out-of-hours rota where required
- Opportunity to study towards a professional qualification if not already qualified
- Disability Confident Employer support for disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace

















