Neighbourhood Manager
- Recruiter
- Blue Octopus
- Location
- North West – Base Poynton, opportunity to work flexibly
- Salary
- Salary £38,062.50 per annum, plus car allowance (£1,200)
- Posted
- 16 May 2018
- Closes
- 01 Jun 2018
- Ref
- BLUN64145
- Sectors
- Public Sector
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Our client is a not-for-profit housing association dedicated to offering quality homes for independent living. Their vision is simple, it is focused on “Living Longer, Living Better”. They want to help their residents age well, live independently and maintain their quality of life for as long as possible.
It’s an exciting time to join them as they move forward towards achieving their aim of becoming the 'Market Maker' in independent living. Their growth ambition is to build 800 new homes over the next 5 years, we are also investing £5m into their existing bedsit stock.
They embrace a ‘One Team’ ethos and employ people who are pioneering and who strive to be outstanding in their role. They empower their colleagues to be the very best that they can be. As a result, they can continue to ensure their customers remain at the very heart of everything they do.
In their regions they have developed new and mobile ways of working, they are looking for more innovative ways and they want you to work with customers and colleagues to innovate that delivery; and to help raise our client’s profile in the North West region. They are already a largescale provider of social alarm services and want to develop further their links to the Greater Manchester arena, having just led on the signing of the Armed Forces Covenant, they want to make a difference in what they do!
You will take responsibility for providing and managing a high standard of operational management and ensuring the effective delivery of an exceptional level of service to their residents across all tenures.
Motivating and supporting staff to deliver high quality customer orientated services, you will provide overall direction for your team which includes a Neighbourhood Officers, Maintenance Surveyors, Independent Living Coordinators and scheme based staff. Ensuring core operational standards, targets and objectives are achieved, you will promote and represent our client through engagement with external stakeholders and support front-line staff including guiding them through statutory responsibilities in the areas relating to risk and safety.
This role demands a highly creative and tenacious individual who has proven leadership experience, gained within a housing or related organisation. Organised and self-motivated with the ability to prioritise and exceed set goals, you will have good working knowledge of housing legislation and practice across different tenures and have experience of managing effective customer driven services. Capable of encouraging and implementing innovation, you will be confident negotiating with key stakeholders to ensure the future success of the business and promote a co-operative team approach, working cross-functionally to handle workloads and overcome difficulties.
Able to demonstrate an understanding of Health and Safety requirements, you will have experience of setting and managing budgets, managing targets and working in partnership with a range of statutory, voluntary agencies and the business community. A professional housing qualification is highly desirable, however by no means essential.
There are a number of reasons why you should join them – they can offer you a work and home life balance, development opportunities and a great number of benefits including childcare vouchers, pension scheme, life assurance, an Employee Assistance Programme and Simplyhealth cash plan!
Closing date: Friday 1st June 2018
This is a Blue Octopus Recruitment Ltd vacancy who are operating as an employment agency. Once you have clicked to apply for this vacancy, we will then send you more information on the role including a copy of the application form via email.