Neighbourhood officer

The Vacancy

Are you passionate about your community and ready to take the next step in your housing career? This is your chance to progress within WCHG and play a vital frontline role as a Neighbourhood Officer - helping us deliver excellent tenancy, allocations and estate management services.

About the Role

As a Neighbourhood Officer, you'll play a key role in providing a high‑quality, customer‑focused housing management service across your locality. You'll actively engage with residents, spending time out on your patch to understand local issues, build relationships and make a real difference in the community. Working as part of a supportive team, you'll take ownership of tenancy and estate management within your area, helping to maintain safe, well‑managed neighbourhoods where people are proud to live.

What You'll Be Doing

• Delivering high‑quality tenancy and estate management services
• Managing a defined patch, engaging with tenants and resolving local issues
• Handling tenancy changes, allocations and low‑level anti‑social behaviour
• Supporting residents to sustain their tenancies and access wider services
• Working collaboratively with colleagues and partners to ensure joined‑up service delivery
• Ensuring estates are well‑maintained, safe and compliant with relevant standards
• Promoting WCHG's values through excellent customer service and community engagement

What We're Looking For

• Experience in tenancy and estate management within a housing environment
• Strong communication and problem‑solving skills, with a focus on customer care
• Ability to handle low‑level ASB, allocations and tenancy issues effectively
• Good knowledge of housing‑related legislation and best practice (desirable)
• A proactive and visible approach to working within communities
• Confident working both independently and as part of a wider team
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail

A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential due to travel between sites.

The successful candidate will also be required to complete a basic DBS check prior to commencing.

Application Deadline – Sunday 21st June (subject to change; advert may be closed early based on applications). If you are interested in applying, don't wait!

Why Join Us?

As an Investors in People Health & Wellbeing recognised employer, we offer a wide range of benefits:

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 with length of service); subject to approval the option to buy and sell additional annual leave*
• Enhanced leave options for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave*
• Enhanced pension scheme contributions
• Health care plan that gives you money back for dental, optical and therapy costs and more
• Subsidised healthy living benefits – gym membership or yoga classes
• Subsidised leisure learning benefits – finance towards driving lessons or learning a new language
• Car lease scheme, cycle to work scheme*
• Volunteering days in the local community
• Salary sacrifice pension option*
• Flexible working
• Real living wage
• Westfield Health
• Training and development
• Recognition and reward

*subject to eligibility criteria

About Us

Wythenshawe Community Housing Group (WCHG) manages almost 14,000 properties, providing homes for more than 29,000 people in Wythenshawe, South Manchester.

We are committed to investing in the health, wellbeing and development of colleagues, rewarding them fairly and empowering them to deliver their best work for the benefit of WCHG, our customers and stakeholders. WCHG is an inclusive employer of choice and operates anonymous recruitment selection practices. As a disability‑confident employer, WCHG will work to make reasonable adjustments where possible throughout its employment processes.

Our purpose is to provide good quality homes and services to our tenants and leaseholders and to play a leading role in creating safer, healthier communities.

WCHG boasts an impressive development portfolio, aiming to deliver on average 1,100 new homes over the next five years with £195m estimated investment, leaving a lasting legacy in our communities.

Awarded Investors in People Health & Wellbeing and officially recognised by the Top Employers Institute as a Top Employer UK, three years running since 2019, WCHG is now among an elite group of world‑class organisations recognised for demonstrating a commitment to high performance through excellent people management and providing local employment to 530 colleagues.