RLS Scheme Manager

Job Introduction

Job Title: RLS Scheme Manager

Salary:    £26,000

Contract: Permanent

Location: Ormskirk

Weekly Hours: 35

So…. What is this role exactly?

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced housing professional, passionate about supporting older people, to take the lead in the day to day running of YHGs Brookside Retirement Living Scheme.

As the Scheme Manager, you will provide support, advice, and signposting to all customers, be responsible for all premises and staff management, including consulting with external partners providing services to the scheme, and for promoting a friendly, vibrant community enabling customers to have choices and live independently!

What will I be responsible for doing?

One of the wonderful things about this role is the variety, no two days will be the same! You and your team will be involved in a range of housing management services including marketing, lettings, dealing with low level ASB, rent queries and facilities management. 

Customer support is key to this role, and you will also oversee use of the scheme for social activities, provide wellbeing support and manage any external partners to the scheme enabling customers to live independently and be provided with an excellent service.

Along with the day-to-day management of your team who support in providing all housing and related services, to ensure customer’s needs are always met, you will also be responsible for Health and Safety on scheme (including fire tests and supporting our customers to stay safe) ensuring regular checks are completed and documented appropriately and in line with Group policy. 

It’s a given, you will have excellent communication skills and be a true people person always on the lookout for opportunities to improve and enhance YHG’s service to our customers. 

And what would make me stand out from the crowd?

To be successful as a Scheme Manager, here at YHG, you will need to be able to demonstrate 

•    Experience of managing Older People’s services, retirement living or over 55s Housing schemes

•    In-depth knowledge of the services on offer to these customers through experience within Housing management or other relevant Housing sector experience. 

Ideally you will be a…. 

•    Collaborative team player with a customer first mentality

•    Excellent communicator, with experience of partnership working

•    Resilient and adaptable, able to prioritise a busy and reactive workload

•    Experience of health and safety within a communal environment

This role is really suited to someone who likes to interact with customers and deliver a people centric service, particularly to older people, who can manage a wide range of situations with empathy, sensitivity and diplomacy. 

For more detail on the role, please review the role profile available by visiting the vacancy on our website - www.yourhousinggroup.co.uk/careers

That all sounds great, what’s in it for me?

In return we offer £26,000 per annum for a 35-hour week, and 25 days (pro-rata for part time) annual leave (holidays continue to increase with time served) plus Bank Holidays, but our employee offering provides much more than just a competitive salary and holiday allowance.

Although you are based at Brookside you will also have access to Youggle House – our wellbeing, social, collaboration and meeting space in Birchwood, Warrington - you may be asked to travel to Youggle House to meet up with your wider team for meetings and training when required.

On top of this, we’ll provide you with a great benefits package, including a contributory pension where we match whatever you choose to contribute (up to 8%), an advanced level Healthcare cash plan through Medicash, that doesn’t just provide dental and optician cashback but also health and wellbeing benefits (such as 24/7 GP Access, money back from prescriptions and alternative therapy treatments), an option to buy up to one weeks further holiday, an annual volunteering day, and an amazing discount scheme that gives you access to half price cinema tickets, subsidised gym memberships and a huge range of discounts with some of the biggest high street and online names. 

For more of our great benefits, please review the benefits information sheet available by visiting the vacancy on our website - www.yourhousinggroup.co.uk/careers.

And who are Your Housing Group?

Your Housing Group is a registered social landlord helping people at every stage of life to live in quality homes they can afford.

As one of the North’s sector-leading landlords, we are proud to play our role in tackling the UK's housing crisis by continually reinvesting in our 29,000 properties and tailoring our services to meet the diverse needs of our customers. We also build over 1,000 new homes each year.

We’re an employer of choice, over 88% of colleagues here recommend us as a 'great place to work'.

Additions

As part of our pre-employment checks, this role requires the successful applicant to complete a satisfactory Basic DBS check. 

Closing Date: 15th March 2026

We review applications as they’re received and reserve the right to close this advert early; if you’re interested, please apply ASAP to avoid disappointment. 

Your Housing Group values diversity and encourages applications from all communities. Your Housing Group operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for any applicants who declare they have a disability, if these applicants meet the minimum requirements for the role (as set out in the role profile and/or person specification) they will be guaranteed an interview.  Your Housing Group welcomes applications from our customers, however, access to confidential information and probity will be explored to determine whether there is a potential conflict of interest or security issue present which may prevent the Group from being able to proceed with the application.YHG1