Specialist Housing Officer

Job Title: Specialist Housing Officer
Hours: Part-time, 26 hours per week
Work Pattern: Tuesday - Thursday 9am - 5pm, Friday 9am -2pm
Location: Finsbury Park, N4
Salary: £35,760 per annum, FTE (£26,565 per annum for 26 hours per week)
Contract: Permanent

Join our client as a part time Specialist Housing Officer.

About the role

• Lead on the day to day housing management of Extra Care Housing and an Older Adult Scheme ensuring residents receive high quality housing and support services that promote their wellbeing.
• Build positive relationships with residents, care providers and partner agencies to create a safe inclusive and supportive environment.
• Carry out tenancy management and wellbeing checks and respond proactively to changing needs.
• Coordination of activities alongside resident involvement colleagues to encourage social participation among residents.
• Ensure that the health and safety measures are conducted in line with regulations and the schemes are managed in line with safeguarding.

About you

• Ability to provide support to older and vulnerable adults with compassion.
• Have a professional approach and able to maintain positive relationships through your excellent communication skills.
• Work effectively using strong organisational skills to deal with competing priorities.
• Solution focussed and able to work independently as well as making contributions within the wider team.
• Passionate about culture and collaboration.

About the Employer

Community and neighbourhood mean everything to this organisation, and their roots run deep in the areas of North London that they serve. Founded over 90 years ago, they provide around 2,500 homes for over 5,000 people across Islington, Hackney and Waltham Forest. They are proud to remain a community-based housing association with a strong social purpose and an ambitious future.

Their values are at the heart of who they are and everything they do, inspiring their thinking and guiding their actions. They strive to build a more diverse organisation, where everyone feels empowered to bring, and be, their best self to work.

They are ambitious about the future while remaining grounded in their communities and values. They are looking for a Housing Officer who shares their commitment to continuous improvement, resident focus and creating an inclusive and supportive culture for colleagues and residents alike.

Why work with this Housing Association?

• A genuinely community-based and values-led organisation
• Strong social purpose and commitment to affordable housing
• New corporate strategy and clear organisational ambition with a commitment to growth in their heartlands
• Opportunity to shape finance, technology and organisational improvement
• Flexible and supportive working culture with hybrid working arrangements
• Competitive pension and benefits package

The organisation can't be a brilliant landlord if they don't partner with brilliant colleagues. Could you be one of them?

If this sounds exciting, they want you on their team. Please do submit a completed application

Inclusion and Diversity

The employer wants the organisation to be a great place to work and to ensure that their communities are represented across their workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring they are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. They particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBTQ+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to their residents so that passionate commitment to customers, respect for everyone, pride in the team and trusted to make the difference remains at the heart of everything they do.

Deadline: 09:00 on 06 July 2026
Interview: Week Commencing 13 July 2026

Interested?

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Please note: The employer can only be able to accept applications from candidates with eligibility to currently work in the UK. They do not offer a visa sponsorship programme.

Applications sent without a covering letter will not be accepted.

Asking for adjustments

The organisation is committed to making their recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like them to do anything differently during the application, interview, or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, you will be able to contact them.

No agencies please.