Neighbourhood Officer

Closing date: 19 June 2025

Employer: ForHousing 

Hours: 36 hours per week

Salary: £38,820 per annum

Location: Eccles

What you’ll be doing:

• Providing high quality, customer focussed housing and neighbourhood services effectively, consistently, pro-actively and cost effectively, including:
  
  • Dealing with all changes of tenancy, including mutual exchange and succession, conducting neighbourhood and scheme inspections
  • Assisting with and delivering community initiatives
  • Developing local communication and providing information to customers
  • Ensuring all issues that arise on the neighbourhood are resolved or where unable to resolve directly, signposting customers effectively and retaining ownership for resolving the issue.
• Developing and strengthening local partnerships and fostering positive relationships with key local contacts including neighbourhood management structures
• Occasionally attend residents’ meetings

What we’re looking for:

• Demonstrate strong negotiating and influencing skills.
• Experience of writing and presenting reports
• Working towards recognised housing qualification would be ideal but isn’t essential.
• Experience of working in social housing would be ideal.

ForHousing is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Please email: employment.hub@salford.gov.uk or call 0161 237 4176 and we will be in touch.