Job Introduction

Job Title: Scheme Manager

Salary Banding: £19,000 - £20,000

Job Location: Manchester

Contact Duration:  fixed term contract until 31/12/19

Hours (weekly):  35 Hours per week working Monday to Friday   

Are you passionate about supporting older people?  Do you take pride in providing a professional and high-quality service to your customers?

Your Housing Group has a fantastic opportunity for a full-time Scheme Manager, managing across 2 sites in Manchester (Lee Court, M22 & West Point Lodge, M19). 

In the rewarding, non-residential role of Scheme Manager, you will provide support and advice to customers, fostering a friendly community atmosphere, promoting the use of the communal areas and monitoring the gardening and maintenance contractors. You will act as a coordinator, signposting and liaising with residents’ families and working in partnership with external agencies to ensure resident’s needs are met.

Its a given, as a successful Scheme Manager, you will have strong communication skills and have previous experience of managing within older people’s housing services or schemes of a similar size, with demonstrable knowledge of housing legislation, health and safety and housing management principles. 

In addition to the above you will embrace the culture of continuous improvement to support Value for Money throughout the organisation and have a passion for doing things right first time.

Your Housing Group is a new generation of housing provider, working efficiently and effectively to build as many quality houses as possible, thereby playing its part in solving the national housing crisis. With over 28,300 homes across the North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands, the business has a large portfolio of retirement living developments and an innovative private rental offer in Nuvu.

(IF APPLICABLE) This role is eligible for a DBS check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (i.e. it involves certain activities in relation to children and/or adults) and is defined as regulated activity under Part 1 of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.  Therefore, a DBS ENHANCED/ADULT BARRED check for a regulated activity is an essential requirement.

Prior to completing your application, please review the attached Role Profile to better understand the role and key responsibilities.   

Closing date:  30 September 2019                           

Should we receive a high number of applications, we may close this vacancy earlier than the date indicated above

Your Housing Group values diversity and encourages applications from all communities. Your Housing Group operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for tenants or anyone who resides in a Your Housing Group property.  It also operates the scheme for any applicants who declare they have a disability. Those applicants who meet the minimum requirements for the role as set out in the role profile will be guaranteed an interview.  Some roles may be subject to probity checks which will override the scheme where a potential conflict of interest or a probity matter has been identified.YHG1

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