Housing Apprentice

Housing Apprenticeship
(37hrs/week) - 2 years’ Fixed-Term
Hourly rate: £12.71p/h
Job Reference: HA/9925/0426

Our Housing Apprenticeship will be the first step on your career path to becoming a Housing Officer. A Housing Officer plays a crucial role in ensuring the effective management of housing services, tenant satisfaction, and organisational compliance.

A Housing Officer is responsible for managing various aspects of housing; conducting audits, addressing anti-social behaviour, maintaining positive relationships with local partners, attending meetings on behalf of Choice, promoting tenant involvement, resolving complaints and disputes, ensuring health and safety compliance, coordinating with maintenance teams, and enforcing tenancy agreements.

Essential criteria:-

• 5 GCSEs (A-C) including Mathematics, ICT and English or Equivalent (BTEC Level 1-2)
• Experience in Microsoft packages
• Driving license and access to your own transport (desirable)

Our employees have access to a range of benefits:-

• Gain qualifications: OCN NI Level 3 in Housing Practice & CIH Level 3 Certificate in Housing Practice
• 22 days annual leave and 12 public holidays,
• Flexible working,
• Volunteer opportunities,
• Health cash plan to include annual routine dental treatments, dental accident & injury, yearly optical, specialist consultations, diagnostic tests and scans, complementary therapies e.g. physiotherapy, acupuncture, osteopathy and chiropractic treatments, alternative therapies e.g. reflexology, head massage, allergy testing, and yearly health screening.

Completed application forms should be returned by 5pm on 29th May 2026.

If you are successful at interview stage, you will be provisionally offered the role and will commence in September 2026, providing you pass the pre-employment checks including completion of an Access NI, Medical declaration, two references and copies of GCSE certificates. If you are awaiting GCSE results, your offer will be provisional depending on achievement of required results.

If you have not been contacted further in writing on or before Tuesday 30th June 2026 you will not have been short-listed for interview.​​​​​​​
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If you have any disability which prevents you from completing the online application form, please contact me to discuss what further assistance you require.

Please see attached job description and person specification for full details.

*If shortlisted you will be sent an email inviting you for interview, please check the email address you have provided on the application and also your junk mail folder*

Please note, the Association reserves the right to create a reserve list following the interview process.

The successful candidate will be required to provide proof of essential qualifications and also provide documentary evidence of their eligibility to work in the United Kingdom. We are also committed to adhering to the Access NI Code of Practice/Service Level of Agreement in relation to requesting disclosure checks where appropriate and processing information in accordance with the code. Choice has a policy on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders and it is available upon request (email: recruitment@choice-housing.org)

“Choice Housing Ireland Limited is an Equal Opportunities Employer”