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About The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for the right individual to spearhead and lead Saha’s Older Persons housing services. The Older Persons Housing Manager will join our evolving General Needs Housing Services Team, with the role requiring a strong and pioneering leader to enhance the lives and safety of our tenants.

About the Role of Older Persons Housing Manager:

At Saha, we are dedicated to providing comprehensive, good quality housing services, support and resettlement for our tenants. Our Values are important to us, so we are looking for someone who represents these and is passionate about Older Persons Housing. As the Older Persons Housing Manager, you will need to:

• Provide strong leadership, effective people management and clear motivation and support to the 6 x Scheme Managers to deliver a high quality, high performing, value for money service to all tenants of Older Persons accommodation.
• Manage individual team members and be responsible for staff development within the team including, training, 121s, annual appraisals and addressing any performance issues.
• Develop, implement and review strategies, policies, and procedures for all aspects of Older Persons accommodation ensuring that the service meets the objectives of Saha’s corporate plan.
• Reporting to the General Needs Housing Senior you will lead on the development of older persons services, providing expert advice to our management team and members. You will work closely with the housing senior to ensure a smooth delivery of an effective housing service.
• Ensure that all Older Persons Housing services are customer focussed and that services provided are consistent across the whole general needs stock, supporting agreed plans and targets.
• Have a strong understanding of Older people’s services, safeguarding, Housing and relevant legislation and regulatory requirements.
• Hold a strong grasp of how technology can support the delivery of Older peoples housing.
• Has experience in effective contract management with focus and strong negotiation skills.

For full detail please see attached Job Description

About You

You will instinctively share Saha’s delivery values and behaviours, loving your work, helping people to thrive and always finding a way to be effective.

You will need to :

• Strive to explore and understand the needs / aspirations of Older Persons tenants in order to develop a service that is fit for the future.
• Fulfil the role by being adaptable and flexible to the overall activity that is necessary to be successful and effective.
• Responsible for fulfilling duties in relation to health and safety, that are relevant to their role, as set out in the Health & Safety Policy.
• You will need to be comfortable with risk management, and seek to ensure and identify development that may impact the future delivery of housing and support for our Older Persons tenants.
• Participate in essential training, role related training and to work in accordance with all relevant Saha regulations including, for example the Code of Conduct, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Safeguarding, Health and Safety and Information Security.
• Fully align with Saha values and behaviours and to adopt an ‘advantaged thinking’ perspective through language, conduct and behaviour.

Benefits of working as the Older Persons Housing Manager:

In return for helping to transform lives, we’ll give you access to some great benefits. These include:

• 26 days annual leave rising to 31 days.
• An extra day off on your birthday
• A High Street discount scheme (great savings both on and off-line)
• Pension with life assurance
• Discounted private medical insurance.
• Loans available for financial emergencies
• Occupational Sick Pay
• A full Induction package and training relevant to the role
• Long service awards from 2.5 years
• Support to learn and develop your career.

About Us

Our aim is to work with individuals to build on their strengths, creating person centred, individualised strategies and plans that transform lives, support recovery and enable positive behaviour. In order to succeed, however, we need the right people in place. Our workforce is one of our greatest assets, but only by recruiting the very best can we continue to deliver comprehensive, good quality housing services, support and resettlement. services to our residents. That’s where you come in.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, Saha is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We invite and welcome applications to apply for Saha opportunities without concern of bias or discrimination.