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Housing Assistant

52725031

Pertemps

£12.81 per hour

Edinburgh

Admin, Secretarial, PA

Temporary | Full Time

ASAP

23/04/2024

21/05/2024

Housing Assistants

Locations - West Pilton - North West Locality Office

Rate of pay - £12.81 per hour

Hours - Mon-Fri, 36 hours per week

Duration - Temporary ongoing

Successful applicants will provide admin support to a busy housing department. Experience working within a housing/homeless or similar service environment is desirable along with having a full UK driving licence.

Duties to include:

- Revenue collection

- Contacting clients who are in accommodation to get housing benefits applications completed

- Gather proof of income required for housing benefit applications

- Providing a reliable business support service through a variety of formats including; telephone, face to face, email, and online.

- Small Balance letters

- Bills from suppliers

- Broken metres

- Garage rentals

- Handling sensitive and personal information in line with appropriate policies and confidentiality guidelines.

- Gas force entries

- Working within a team of business support staff dealing with customer's issues and service requests through provision of information, guidance, or progressing requests to wider services.

- Using appropriate systems to process service requests or updates for wider services.

- General admin duties such as dealing with the mail

Successful applicants must:

- Have knowledge of IT systems such as outlook, word, excel

- Have excellent customer service skills

- Be able to deal with members of the public in difficult situations

- Have knowledge of Microsoft applications

- Have excellent time keeping skills

- Be honest, trustworthy and punctual

- Have good problem solving skills

A basic disclosure will be required for this role at a cost of £25

If you have the relevant skills and experience please apply directly to this advert