Area Manager - Home Ownership (Older People Services)
- Employer
- Catalyst Housing Limited
- Location
- Bedfordshire, South East
- Salary
- Up to £38,430
- Closing date
- 30 Dec 2021
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- Function
- Community and Customer Services, Supported / sheltered housing
- Seniority
- Manager
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Organisation Type
- Housing association / RP
Job Details
We’re looking for an experienced Area Manager who can provide excellent customer service across our communities, estates and neighbourhoods.
About us
We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations, a member of the G15 group of London’s largest housing associations, with 34,000 homes and 1,200 employees in London and the Home Counties.
We have been voted a Sunday Times top 100 Best Company to Work for, investing care, time and resources in our people.
We are inspired by the benefits of a diverse workforce. We encourage diversity and inclusion at all levels of our organisation and are fully committed to equality of opportunity. Catalyst wants to remove any barriers for people to enable them to participate equally within the recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments, please let us know and we can discuss your requirements for the recruitment process.
Our purpose
Our purpose at Catalyst is to provide ‘homes people love’. That means everything from creating and maintaining great homes, to delivering excellent service to customers every day. We offer a wide range of housing solutions and opportunities for our diverse range of customer needs and requirements including, rent, part ownership or purchase. By doing so, we build more than homes – we build communities.
What we’re looking for:
- Are you an experienced Housing and Estate Management professional who is driven to continually improve customer experience?
- Can you lead on service delivery co-ordination to drive improvements whilst ensuring local accountability and responsibility?
- Do you have knowledge of legislation, regulatory standards, good practice to inform sound decision making particularly around Homeownership property and leases?
If so, this is the perfect role for you!
We currently have a great opportunity for an Area Manager to join us on a permanent basis. We’re looking for an experienced Area Manager who can provide excellent customer service across our communities, estates and neighbourhoods within Retirement services.
Do you have what it takes?
To succeed in your role as an Area Manager you will:
- Show a considered, intelligent approach to leading and implementing change, with high attention to detail and consideration of customer and employee engagement and the broader organisation
- Create an environment that enables a culture of empowerment and self-awareness within your team through your leadership and management.
- Be driven to achieve and proactively seek opportunities to continually improve our service to customer.
- To ensure that all relevant health and safety issues are managed effectively, including, but not limited to; legionella testing, requirements relating to the fire risk management of residential properties, and lone working issues.
- Provide housing operations expertise to the housing teams and the wider business, using your knowledge of legislation, regulatory standards.
- Be financially astute with the ability to understand and effectively manage budgets.
The UK has a housing problem which affects every one of us, because housing is the foundation of the society we live in. Catalyst is part of the solution and you could be too!
This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS check and will require a full driving licence and access to a vehicle.
Additional Documents
View the Catalyst Privacy Statement
The benefits
We’re committed to making Catalyst a great place to work. As well as offering a positive culture we offer a competitive pay and benefits package, some of which are listed below:
- Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates
- Up to 27 days paid annual leave up, to a maximum of 30 days
- Two additional paid volunteering days each year
- A generous salary sacrifice pension scheme: matching a contribution of 3- 5% of your monthly salary with up to another 9% by us
- Flexible and agile working
- Learning and development programme where we invest in your personal development and training as soon as you start work with us
To find out more, take a look at our benefits page - https://careers.chg.org.uk/catalyst-benefits/
Ready to apply?
To be considered for the role of Area Manager, please click on the ‘Apply Now’?button and submit your details along with a copy of your CV and a supporting statement.
Company
The UK has a housing problem. This affects every one of us, because housing is the foundation of the society we live in. Catalyst is part of the solution.
We are one of the UK’s leading housing associations – a member of the G15 group, with over 21,000 homes. We’re here to make a purposeful difference, providing housing solutions and opportunities for those who can’t afford a home without our help.
We offer a wide range of homes, for rent, part ownership or purchase. And by doing so, we build more than homes – we build communities.
We also work hard to be a great employer, to deliver outstanding customer service and to be a high-performance business. We are absolutely committed to our social purpose, in every part of our organisation. And we always seek to do better.
We’re a Sunday Times top 100 Best Company to Work for. We invest a lot of time and resources in our people because we know it’s our people who will drive our success.
- Website
- http://www.chg.org.uk/
- Telephone
- 020 8832 3334
- Location
-
Ealing Gateway
26-30 Uxbridge Road
Ealing
London
London
W5 2AU
GB
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