The vacancy If you have a passion for working in the community, getting to know people and enabling them to manage their homes and improve their lives - you belong at Bromford.
As scheme manager, you'll create an environment where our residents that live on site have a great place to live and can thrive.
You'll match a strong level of care provision with a full timetable of activities that enable our customers to enjoy an active and independent lifestyle, encouraging residents to organise events and activities and run clubs themselves.
We want you to get to know the customers interested in living in our scheme, understanding their circumstances and what they want from their new home.
You will need to bring the community into our retirement living scheme, inviting local residents to look around, speaking to community groups, and engaging with local colleges; building relationships that will help bring the community to life.
You will be accountable for every aspect of service provision as well as building maintenance and tenancy agreements and directly manage the facilities co-ordinator.
Acting as the main point of contact and a link for care providers, with direct responsibility for their performance and overall contract compliance, you will also be managing budgets and staffing requirements, ensuring we maximise all income and profit opportunities for the scheme.
The role is full time and a 6-month fixed-term contract.
You'll be based at our retirement living scheme Park Gardens in Banbury (OX16 9HQ), the role is subject to an DBS Enhanced and Adult Barred List check.
We want you to be somebody who: Is ideally an experienced manager from an extra care or retirement living background.
As a proven performer, you'll enjoy a challenge and have plenty of initiative, as well as lots of ideas Will meet your targets on time and deliver them to the best of your ability Is a natural communicator, relationship builder and manager; your desire to provide a quality service right across the community will have future customers flocking to your door Has high standards and never one to shirk from doing what's right.
You'll have a passion for improving and enhancing the customer experience Is confident managing finances and can make the most of the facilities on-site, that will result in a healthy income for the scheme and guarantee its ongoing success If you have previous experience as a scheme manager, service manager, care home manager, residential manager, facilities manager or something similar, this could be a great opportunity for you.
The closing date is Monday 11 November 2024.
About us We are a housing association- one that owns and provides over 47,000 homes for people who can't access market housing; has individual relationships with more than 112,000 customers; has a strong balance sheet and plans to build 11,000 homes by 2032.
All of this is only possible because of our 1,900 dedicated colleagues.
We take a simple view that nothing is more important to any individual or a family than their home.
It's a matter of social justice that everyone should have a home that is safe, secure, and affordable.
We exist to provide such homes.
With the right home, people can achieve great things, not only for themselves but for wider society too.
We provide quality, affordable homes.
But we care about the people who live in them too.
We want each of them to be able to achieve their goals.
This will be different for each customer.
Put simply, we want people to thrive.
Diversity Statement We are committed to recruiting, developing and retaining colleagues who are representative of the diverse communities we work with.
This commitment is embedded in our DNA, and we are striving to build an inclusive workplace culture where all colleagues feel valued and respected, and individuality is celebrated.
We are a proud "Disability Confident" (Level 2) and Menopause Friendly employer and have signed the Armed Forces covenant to support those who serve.
We encourage people from all sections of our community to apply for jobs with us.
Particularly, we welcome those who have been historically underrepresented in areas of our workforce including people from ethnic minority backgrounds, disabled people, women, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Great Place To Work Certified Bromford have been certified as a Great Place To Work (Nov 22 - Nov 23).
The 2023 Great Place to Work Trust Index Survey highlighted that our employees believe we have an amazing company culture and that 89% of our employees were made to feel welcome when they joined us.
We are also proud to have been named as one of the UK's Best Workplaces for Women for two years running (2023 and 2024) demonstrating that all colleagues, regardless of gender, can thrive at Bromford.