- Pay Rate:
up to £18.14 per hour PAYE depending on experience
- Hours per Week:
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3 months
- THATCHAM,
RG19 6AD
Temporary Income Officer - Housing
Reference no: SGN 5232991
Pay Rate: up to £18.14 per hour PAYE depending on experience
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: THATCHAM
Enhanced DBS disclosure required
As an Income Officer you'll carry out a range of tasks including negotiating payment arrangements with customers, providing welfare benefit and money advice and preparing applications for court. You'll be on standby to visit customers in their home as well as occasionally attending court hearings
Key Responsibilities:
- Delivering a comprehensive rent & service charge collection service across the region
- Monitoring customer accounts for all tenures
- Managing end to end processes
- Engaging with external agencies including local authorities when needed
- Managing evictions
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
Knowledge:
- Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of welfare benefit entitlements, particularly housing related benefits and all changes due to Welfare reforms.
- Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of local grants and funding that may be applicable to a customer’s circumstances
- Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of best practice and internal policies and procedures relating to arrears prevention and collection
- Knowledge of methods to monitor the quality of data and identify issues e.g. reconciliations
- Knowledge and experience of either social housing, home ownership or the private rented sector
Experience:
- Experience in income management or debt recovery/collection
Skills & Abilities:
- Excellent customer service skills
- Effective decision-making skills, a diplomatic and confidential approach and the ability to prioritise a busy workload
- Ability to prepare all relevant paperwork for court and carry out D.I.Y possession action in arrears related cases
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