Home Based, and required to occasionally travel to Bristol or Dudley Area

Here at Stonewater, we are seeking a Lettings Officer to join our Lettings team! This role is all about customer service and delivering an excellent experience for both our outgoing and incoming customers.

This isn’t a call centre or sales role – it’s about delivering a positive customer experience to our customers and maximising Stonewater’s income through efficient management of our exit process and voids works on our homes, as well being the first step in welcoming and onboarding new customers to Stonewater through the letting of homes. Working well on your own initiative with a dedicated case load as well as part of a team, you will be responsible for responding to a variety of enquiries covering the process from key to key. Dependent on whether you are working on our empty homes or lettings side the tasks may vary, but include handling tenancy terminations, scheduling of works to empty homes, contractor management, after care, as well as the advertising of our homes, customer applications, virtual sign-ups and support with ensuring tenancy sustainment.

So, whether you are looking to pursue a career in housing or have worked in the sector for many years and want to feel the buzz of helping families find their forever home, this could be the perfect opportunity for you!

The ideal candidate will:

• Be a pro-active and practical problem solver who enjoys working in a target driven environment.
• Be someone who thrives on organisation, with strong administrative skills and the ability to self-manage workload.
• Have strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Be someone who can work on their own initiative while understanding the benefits of team work.
• Be dedicated to getting the job done, have a can-do attitude and above all, great customer service skills.
• Have strong IT skills, able to use varying databases and third party Interfaces (once training is provided).

Job Description - Lettings Officer

Appointment to this role will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check, satisfactory references and possession of a valid Right to Work document.

Discover Stonewater:

Stonewater is a leading housing provider. We manage around 40,000 homes, serving 93,000 customers across our portfolio of affordable properties for general rent, shared ownership and sale, alongside specialist accommodation, with an ambitious house-building programme.

Our mission is to provide quality homes and services for people whose needs are not met by the open market.

We’re looking for like-minded people to join our team of over 900 talented colleagues who embody our values of being ethical, ambitious, passionate, agile and commercial, as well as people who want to make a difference and transform people’s lives.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and working towards accreditation for becoming a Disability Confident Leader, which allows us to record and report on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace to better support our colleagues. We have also achieved accreditation for being an Advanced Employer for Investing in Ethnicity Maturity Matrix. We are committed to being a Menopause Friendly employer and working towards accreditation our Menopause Friendly accreditation.

Are you ready to #DiscoverStonewater?

Stonewater reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received prior to the current closing date.