Director of Housing Services
- Employer
- Southern Housing
- Location
- Croydon, Kent
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 21 Jul 2019
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- Function
- Community and Customer Services, Housing / neighbourhood management, Homes and Asset Management, Maintenance / Repair, Executive & Senior, Senior management
- Seniority
- Director
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Organisation Type
- Housing association / RP
Job Details
We need someone exceptional to lead our Housing Service Teams. If you‘re passionate about fairness and adept at delivering and embedding change you couldn’t be in a better place. We want someone who‘s committed to creating a collaborative, positive development culture for staff and who can apply fresh thinking and new ideas.
As a member of the senior leadership team you’ll help to drive the strategic direction of the organisation. You’ll be responsible for approximately 140 staff delivering fantastic services for Income, Lettings, Financial Inclusion, Anti-social Behaviour, Digital Inclusion, Agency Managed and Client Specific Supported Housing Schemes and Co-ops.
Together with the Director of Neighbourhoods you’ll provide leadership, passion and guidance to ensure a joined up delivery of services.
Knowledge
- Substantial experience of leadership in the field of housing, including the management of a large workforce
- National and local political awareness and knowledge, particularly in relation to key policy and legislative changes affecting housing
Abilities
- Lead teams and manage change
- Credibility, knowledge and networking skills to represent Optivo externally at a strategic level
- Manage across departments to deliver first class services
- Work across all regions of operation
- Motivate and inspire teams to deliver excellent customer service
Any must haves
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience, with evidence of continuing professional development
- full and clean driving licence plus car
If this sounds like you, we look forward to receiving your application!
As well as this extremely rewarding job, you will also have 27 days annual leave, an extra day leave to celebrate your birthday, company pension, access to a health care cash plan and continued development and career opportunities throughout your employment with Optivo.
Valuing diversity, equality and fairness.
Equal Opportunities
At Optivo our aim is to have a diverse and inclusive workforce where people are respected for who they are. We embrace and celebrate cultural diversity in the workplace and value the strengths it brings us as an organisation. We believe that everyone deserves to be treated with respect irrespective of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We treat everyone we house, serve, employ and work with fairly and expect and encourage others to do the same.
Company
About us
At Southern Housing, our residents are at the heart of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own! We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people’s lives.
A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.
What’s in it for you?
- Pension
- Life assurance
- Healthcare cash plan
- Eyecare & dental
- Birthday leave
- Retailers discounts
- Cycle to work
- Buy & sell annual leave
- Season ticket loan
- In-house academy & career development
- Flexible working
Inclusion and Diversity
We work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics, it’s about celebrating differences of thought, opinion, experience and perspective of each individual. We’re all different in our own way and we want our colleagues to feel comfortable, that they belong, and are safe to be themselves at work, without fear of being judged or excluded, but valued for their contribution to our One Team approach.
- Website
- https://www.optivo.org.uk/
- Mini-site
- Southern Housing
- Telephone
- 0800 121 60 60
- Location
-
Grosvenor House 125 High St
London
Surrey
CR0 9XP
United Kingdom
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