Scheme Manager - Homeownership

Sanctuary Group; Billericay; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanctuary Group is seeking a Scheme Manager to join their Homeownership team in Billericay and Pitsea. The successful candidate will provide essential support to retirement schemes, enhancing residents' well-being while managing communications and administrative duties. With a strong commitment to customer service and community welfare, this role offers a competitive salary and numerous employee benefits.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus public holidays

Pension scheme with employer contributions

Life Assurance

Employee Advice Service

Cycle to Work scheme

Voluntary health plans

Wellbeing support tools

Qualifications

• Experience of working with vulnerable residents and understanding their needs.
• Good practice for resident involvement.
• Confident communication with contractors.

Responsibilities

• Encouraging residents' well-being and independence.
• Managing administrative tasks and ensuring compliance.
• Coordinating with internal and external parties.

Skills

Customer Care

Communication

Organizational Skills

Handling Confidential Information

Working with Vulnerable Residents

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

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Sanctuarymanages rented and shared ownership homes and supports community initiatives for thousands of customers across England. Our staff help make a real difference to the quality of people’s lives.

Covering Allington Court – Billericay and Brackendale Court - Pitsea

£28,419 - £29,298 per year

40 hours per week

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for a Scheme Manager to join our Homeownership team based in Billericay and Pitsea. Using your flare for customer service and ability to think on your feet, you’ll play a key role in identifying areas of risk and ensuring these are reported in a timely fashion and are closely monitored. This opportunity involves communicating with a variety of customers and coordinating contractor workloads; therefore, we are looking to appoint someone with recent experience within a similar role where exceptional customer service is demonstrated. You will be managing two Retirement schemes and will need to be able to manage your time in accordance with the Schemes needs and lease obligations.

The role of Scheme Manager - Homeownership will include:

• Encouraging residents to maintain their well-being and independence through the effective delivery of housing support services that are tailored to meet individual needs and organisational objectives
• Providing administrative support including producing letter/notices, recording data, raising purchase orders, invoice management and support resales
• Confident in engaging and communicating with internal and external contractors.
• Ensuring compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements for housing services

Skills and experiences:

• Experience of working with vulnerable residents and a good understanding of the key needs and services available to residents
• Experience of good practice for resident involvement practices
• Ability to organise and prioritise multiple workloads effectively
• Excellent communication and customer care skills both face to face and via telephone concerning a range of queries/complaints, offering advice and guidance
• A good working knowledge of handling confidential and sensitive information
• Experience of using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and Outlook)
• A full valid driving licence and access to your own vehicle is required as travelling to other sites may be required

Why work for us?

Sanctuary Housing is one of the UK’s leading social landlords, providing around 70,000 homes across England. We give our residents good quality, affordable homes in communities that they can be proud of. As part of a not-for-profit organisation, we reinvest any surplus we make back into the local communities we serve.

As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental and financial health and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:

• 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days) plus public holidays (pro rata)
• A pension scheme with employer contributions from Sanctuary
• Life Assurance
• Employee Advice Service including counselling
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Voluntary health plans
• Wellbeing support and tools
• Employee Networks, with a shared interest in inclusion, and who provide invaluable support to colleagues
• £28,419 per annum (rising to £29,298 per annum after 12 months, subject to satisfactory performance)

The full-time equivalent salary for this role is £26,643 based on 37.5 hours per week rising to £27,467 after 12 months service and subject to satisfactory performance

If you're unsure about any details, have questions about the role or want to discuss a need for adjustments, our fantastic talent team will be happy to help you – [e-mail]

We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.

Inclusion is one of our core values. Our goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive and meet our customers’ needs with fairness and empathy. We know having a range of ideas and opinions makes a difference. We encourage and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission. We will make adjustments throughout your application process, in line with Sanctuary’s commitment to our Disability Confident employer status.

Building Equality and Diversity

Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers.
We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent illegal working.
A basic Disclosure and Barring Service check will be necessary in the event of a successful application which we will pay for.
Sanctuary Housing Services Limited is a subsidiary of Sanctuary Housing Association, an exempt charity.

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