Property Manager

Salary: £27,600 – £28,800 per year

Mears is one of the leading providers of repairs and maintenance services and refurbishment programmes to the social housing sector. Mears operates nationally with contracts all over the UK from Scotland to Cornwall to the South Kent coast.

We are now looking to recruit a Property Manager to deliver a high quality housing management service. Located in Leeds this role is responsible for providing temporary accommodation for vulnerable adults including the homeless. Support other projects within the Manchester branch including Shared Ownership and Affordable Housing

We are looking for a Property Manager who has previous experience of working in a social housing environment or working with homeless or vulnerable households, and holding a relevant qualification. You will need to possess excellent interpersonal skills and a really positive “can do” approach. As a team we are committed to delivering a high quality customer service so an understanding of delivering services to customers from different cultures and backgrounds is critical coupled with the ability to deal tactfully with difficult situations

Applicants should possess a full driving license with the ability to carry out property visits within the region

Key Responsibilities

* Providing day to day housing management support to tenants in designated management patch

* Being responsible for moving tenants in to properties and showing them how to use all equipment and utilities in the property and go through health and safety information.

* Undertake regular property inspections and tenancy audits

* To maintain accurate up to date IT records on all case load.

* Work with local authorities collaboratively and support any tenancy related issues

* To liaise with local authority partners in dealing with nominations, lettings and day to day management issues as may arise including attending joint visits

* An understanding of property maintenance and ability to deal with disrepair issues that may arise

* To negotiate repair requests with Landlords.

* To serve appropriate legal notices on tenants and attend evictions as required.

* To provide excellent customer service at all times

* To be responsible for identifying breaches of the tenancy agreement and taking appropriate action to resolve those breaches as amicably as possible or being responsible for liaising with the correct authorities to deal effectively with the problem.

* An understanding of property maintenance and ability to deal with disrepair issues that may arise

* To negotiate repair requests with property owners.

* To serve appropriate legal notices on tenants and attend evictions as required.

About Mears – Mears Housing Management seeks to develop new housing supply along with contracted management services to central and local Government as well as Registered Providers of social housing. Mears actively invests in local communities and makes a significant contribution to sustaining communities through local employment, community projects and training and development. There is a strong emphasis on customer service, making sure that our customers feel cared for, trust us, take for granted our professionalism and feel that they are valued as individuals.

Our employee experience is just as important to us and there is a significant programme of investment in the improvement of terms and conditions and training and development.

The Benefits of joining Mears Group We offer a friendly and flexible working environment, excellent training and development opportunities and 25 days holiday entitlement along with bank holidays. Mears offer a company pension, life insurance and share scheme along with other fun benefits!Mears is also committed to a policy of equality and diversity, and positively welcomes applications from all sections of the community, please submit your application below and our recruitment team will be in contact.