Deputy Housing Manager

Langley has a fantastic opportunity for an organised, client focussed, and results-driven Deputy Housing Manager with good communication and interpersonal skills to join our busy and friendly team in Bedford. This role is a full-time fixed term contract working 40 hours per week until March 2025. The successful candidate will receive a salary of £29,982 per annum.

REWARDS PACKAGE

• Company funded health cash plan
• Access to the Flexible Benefits Portal where you can tailor benefits to your individual needs
• Generous annual leave increasing with service up to 30 days plus bank holidays
• Fantastic pension scheme, matched up to 8%
• Life Assurance up to 3 times your salary
• Fully funded DBS, renewals and DBS update service subscriptions
• Company sick pay scheme
• Smart Health, which includes unlimited access to online, telephone and video GP
• Access to private holiday flat in Torquay
• Wellbeing Support our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme includes free counselling and legal advice
• Eyecare & Flu vouchers
• Menopause support
• Enhanced Maternity Pay
• Access to Blue Light Card discounts
• Long Service Awards
• Access to chaplaincy and pastoral support

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

As ourDeputy Housing Manager, you will positively support the Housing Services Manager in providing leadership to the staff team and supporting and facilitating the needs of the service users, in line with our Christian Mission and Values, legislative and regulatory requirements.

• To maintain a Christ like culture, values and reputation and to demonstrate strategic Christian leadership.
• To understand in detail and act upon the ex-offending and restrictive licence conditions (of some) of the applicants and the letting process in line with our procedure.
• Supervising staff including giving Christian pastoral support and ensuring that pastoral needs are being met. The post holder must be a Christ like individual who is able to put their belief in Christ into action as a supervisor of staff
• To supervise and help support the development of staff as directed by your line manager and to assist in the recruitment, training and supervision of the staff team. To assist in the allocation of tasks to staff to achieve the key performance indicators of the project and ensure compliance of the Trusts policies and procedures.
• Using your housing knowledge, to support the Housing Officers in providing information and advice about Welfare Benefits especially Housing Benefit.
• You will work with clients to prevent evictions whilst working with the Housing Manager to ensure that when necessary, all evictions meet legal requirements.

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The successful candidate will be a practicing Christian who will create an environment where people feel valued, empowered and equipped to do their best work. This person willplay a key part in providing strong Christian leadership and willbe required to upholdthe Trusts Christian ethos and Christ like culture, aligned with ourChristian Identity, and therefore there is a genuine occupational requirement for the post holder to be a practicing and professing Christian under the Equality Act 2010.

DISABILITY CONFIDENT

As a Level 2 Disability Confident Committed employer, we run a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria listed in the job description. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please state this in your application.

We’re proud to be an Investors in People Gold employer which means we invest in our people. This is a huge achievement as our assessment covers the last 3 years of unprecedented challenges through the pandemic; additionally, Investors in People have raised the bar and acknowledge that it is harder now to secure the Gold standard than in previous years as they want to keep it meaningful.

About Eliora

Based across Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, Eliora provides homes and support for men with convictions.

With 73 bed spaces available, clients live in the community and share the communal areas in their houses with each other. Eliora has 2, 3, 4 and 5 bed houses all of which are furnished and self-catered.

If you want to join our team as our Deputy Housing Manager,please apply now as we would love to hear from you.

We reserve the right to close earlier if we receive sufficient applicants.

A satisfactory Enhanced DBS with adult barred list check is required for this role and job offers will be subject to the Trust receiving satisfactory evidence of the successful applicants right to work in the UK.

Closing date: 6th December 2024

This role is eligible for consideration under the Employee Referral Scheme . For further information around the referring principals and scope, please consult the Employee Referral Scheme Guide

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