Housing Complaints Team Leader

Our local authority client based in East London are urgently seeking an experienced Housing Complaints Team Leader.

*£30.32 an hour Umbrella*

PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

• To oversee the day to day management of the Central Housing Complaints team (3 Senior Complaints Officers), ensuring that the Housing Services Complaints Handling Procedure is effectively delivered.
• To oversee and manage a complex caseload of complaints and Member/Mayoral enquiries within the Central Housing Complaints Team and provide comprehensive, effective and efficient complaints administration support across Housing Services.
• To ensure that housing complaints are handled professionally and effectively in a timely manner.
• To be the main point of contact for complainants throughout the investigation.
• To collate and analyse all sources of customer feedback, with a view to identifying performance and service delivery improvement themes.

MAIN AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:

• To lead, manage and take overall responsibility and accountability for the work of the Central Housing Complaints team, ensuring that services provided are continuously monitored and reviewed so that they are of the highest quality and responsive to local needs.
• Ensuring that all incoming complaints and Member/Mayoral enquiries are swiftly allocated by the Senior Complaints Officers to the right people in the right service areas so that the issues raised can be investigated as quickly as possible.
• Ensuring that the Senior Complaints Officers are implementing the key stages of the Housing Services Complaints procedure, particularly making phone calls to the resident at the start of the process and keep them updated on the progress of their case.
• Monitoring the progress of complaint and enquiry investigations, and escalating them where necessary, so that service standard deadlines are met and ensuring that effective records are kept on the Council’s complaints system.
• Reviewing draft responses submitted for approval by the Senior Complaints Officers and signing off on them in a timely fashion, ensuring that they meet the required quality standards.

Qualifications and Knowledge Requirements

• Significant experience of working within Housing, either within a local authority or a housing association.
• Detailed knowledge of the services provided by housing organisations and the way in which service provision is structured.
• Working knowledge of the Housing Ombudsman Service’s Complaints Handling Procedure would be desirable.
• Experience of working in a Complaints/Customer Services team environment to deliver high quality responses in a timely fashion.
• Previous experience of working in a team leader role.

Please apply with your updated CV ensuring that any gaps in employment are explained.

At this point, may we take this opportunity to thank you for the interest you have shown in this role. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications that we receive, it is not always possible to respond to everyone. Therefore, unless you hear from us within the next 7 days, your application for this vacancy will have been unsuccessful.