Neighbourhood Response Officer - Interim

Job Title: Neighbourhood Response Officer - Interim

Location: Basildon and wider Essex areas Rate: £19.13 per hour (PAYE) / £23.00 per hour (Umbrella) Contract Type: Interim Working Pattern: Resident-facing, onsite daily

About the Role

We are seeking a confident, customer-focused Neighbourhood Response Officer to help deliver safe, secure, and attractive neighbourhoods with vibrant, diverse, and stable communities where people want to live.

You will deliver regular estate inspections, identifying and reporting issues and making improvements, and design and deliver neighbourhood projects and activities with individuals, communities, and stakeholders. You will also support residents to manage their tenancies, including sign-ups, welfare checks, and investigations of anti-social behaviour and tenancy breaches. Working closely with safeguarding teams, social services, mental health teams, and the police, you will support the health and wellbeing of residents and the wider neighbourhood.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver neighbourhood plans and local offers.

• Deliver a programme of regular estate inspections, prioritising fire safety risk assessment follow-up work.

• Work with local residents' groups to develop community facilities, activities, and events.

• Work collaboratively with local partners such as safer neighbourhood teams, the voluntary sector, and youth services on neighbourhood safety and ASB issues.

• Visit customers in breach of their tenancy or lease agreement where tasked to do so.

• Visit customers who may require additional support and assess whether they need ongoing tenancy sustainment.

• Conduct viewings, sign-ups, and tenancy assignments.

• Attend court to represent the organisation and/or provide witness statements as required.

• Conduct evictions and attend stay hearings.

• Carry out property condition checks for mutual exchanges, notice periods, or planned visits.

• Assist with major incidents and the decanting of tenants.

What You'll Need:

• Experience of providing good customer service and dealing with customers in person.

• Experience of working with external partners and working to plans and targets.

• The ability to exercise good judgement and find proactive, creative solutions.

• Confident and resilient, with a positive mindset and the ability to work alone.

• Excellent communication skills, adaptable to different audiences.

• Ability to develop effective working relationships with colleagues and external agencies.

• IT literate, with the ability to learn new systems quickly.

• A clear commitment to equality and diversity principles and practices.

• Full driving licence with use of own vehicle (essential, for travel across the region).

• Willingness to respond at short notice in the event of a major incident.

• Able to work early evenings and occasional weekends if required.

If this role aligns with your experience, please send an updated copy of your CV to Sean Cloherty at Elevate Projects so we can discuss further