Fixed Term Contract (9-10 Months) Full Time, 37 hours per week (Monday – Friday, Flexibility Negotiable) Thrive Homes is in search of a Head of Housing Management to lead, inspire, and motivate the Housing Management Team, which includes ASB & Sustainment, Neighbourhoods, Estates, Onboarding & Tenancies, and Income Protection teams. The main focus of this role is to drive excellent performance, ensure a great customer experience, and promote colleague development. The goal is to deliver an efficient, effective, and responsive housing management service to customers, providing a seamless experience and getting it right the first time. Thrive is proud to deliver flexibility for employees to work in a manner that suits their wants/needs best. Our SMART working policy allows individuals to take full control of their productivity by offering a choice between working in-house or away from the office. This means that successful candidates have the freedom to work as little or as often as they like from Thrive's state-of-the-art offices. During the probationary period you will be required to be on-site at the office more frequently, due this a commutable distance to our head office is essential. Other Responsibilities: Develop partnerships with key stakeholders and network to create good working relationships with third party organisations to support our customers and deliver key services Maximise income, including rent and service charge collection. Manage expenditure and seek service improvements and efficiencies throughout, ensuring services remain competitive. Maximise occupancy of our homes ensuring a positive end to end onboarding and settling in experience. Adopt and deliver appropriate sustainment and intervention practices to maintain tenancies of all tenures, for our customers. Ensure the team works proactively and effectively with the wider business to ensure that the annual rent increase and service charge process is delivered, communicated to customers and direct debits updated. Seek out opportunities to improve customer experience, being innovative and curious in your approach. Proactively manage relationships with customers, ensuring your team has a positive culture, treating customers with empathy and respect. Increase and embed customer engagement across your team ensuring that we learn from feedback. Ensure regulatory and statutory compliance in handling complaints and the Consumer Standards, specifically the Neighbourhood and Community, Transparency, Influence and Accountability and Tenancy Standards. Requirements: Holding or being willing to work towards a foundation degree or level 5 qualification regulated by Ofqual in Housing Management is important. Demonstrable experience in delivering a high performing housing management team across the range of functions within the role, with suitable reporting and data analysis. You must be passionate about customer experience and an understanding of the challenges facing customers. You can demonstrate and lead a Customer First approach. Demonstrate positive leadership qualities that inspire and motivate colleagues and partners to deliver a reliable and professional service Experience at building, maintaining and managing relationships with key external stakeholders Experience of working in a regulated environment and able to understand the evidence and assurance requirements needed by the board. Able to think creatively when it comes to service delivery to ensure the best experience for customers Specific roles within Thrive are subject to a basic DBS check, the successful applicant(s) will be contacted by our People Team if this applies to their role. Closing date: Monday 17th March 2025 Interviews: To be confirmed We reserve the right to close this recruitment if it is deemed that we have received a suitable number of applications. On this basis we would advise that applications are submitted as soon as possible. INDHIGH The Company Thrive Homes is an award-winning housing association with a strong track record in the housing sector and ambitious plans. Thrive exists to provide good quality affordable homes and services enabling the development of communities where people can Thrive. We manage over 5,000 properties and are continuing to build new homes each year. Thrive is proud to deliver flexibility for employees to work in a manner that suits their wants/needs best. Our SMART working policy allows individuals to take full control of their productivity by offering a choice between working in-house or away from the office. This means that successful candidates have the freedom to work as little or as often as they like from Thrive's state of the art offices. The Benefits Benefit 1 Benefit 2 Benefit 3 Benefit 4 The Values Innovation We are creative and fearless in our work. Accountability We take ownership of our work and lead from the front. Teamwork We collaborate widely and build supportive environments. Generous family friendly provision Pension we will pay double your contribution (up to 10%). Discretionary Bonus Life assurance a payment of 3x your salary Virtual GP Service (available 24/7) Wellbeing reward scheme (earn vouchers through a health app) Free Financial Advisor service (includes savings, mortgage, debt & pension advice) A range of engagement activities aimed at building team morale, supporting both physical and mental health, and celebrating all things that make us different Flexible benefit scheme (up to £900 p/a) you have access to the following optional benefits: Buy or Sell annual leave You will receive basic 25 days annual leave p/a increasing by length of service (up to 30 days) Cycle to work Retail Vouchers & Discount Scheme PLACEHOLDER 4 Car Benefit scheme Health Cash Plan facility to claim cashback for dental, optical and physiotherapy costs, alongside wellness services. Annual Health Screening (BUPA) PLACEHOLDER 8 Thrive’s Approach Thrive is an exciting place to work. We challenge ourselves and others to deliver results and think differently. We share positive experiences and messages, with trust and respect at the core of every relationship. Our leaders adopt a coaching and mentoring approach - enabling and empowering others to deliver. We embrace change and encourage a strong focus on positive outcomes. We value agile working arrangements from our offices in Apsley, Hertfordshire and we pride ourselves on looking after our colleagues by offering progressive careers and a full range of modern benefits.We continue to grow as an organisation and aim to attract the very best people. Thrive homes are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion. This commitment is at the core of our understanding the importance of different voices, experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. We actively encourage all applicants that are suitable for the role, from diverse career paths and backgrounds and from all sections of the community. As committed members of Inclusive Employers and a Disability Confident Committed employer, we remain steadfast to a fair recruitment process. If you have any accessibility needs and require reasonable adjustment, please contact us. Specific roles at Thrive are subject to a basic DBS check. Documents