About the Role:
Would you like to work somewhere where you get to make a real difference every day?
If you are looking for a role that is challenging and rewarding, and where your day-to-day work makes a real difference to people’s lives, we’d love to hear from you.
Advance is a national housing and support provider that exists to transform the lives of people with a disability or mental health condition. We’ve been around for more than 50 years and we are about to launch our ambitious Strategic Plan for the next three years: Customers at the Heart which sets out how we will continue to evolve to meet changing regulatory expectations and customer aspirations; grow our business further and ensure we continue placing customers at the centre of everything we do.
This is an exciting opportunity to step into a brandnew Asset Manager role and shape how we manage, invest in, and futureproof our housing portfolio. You’ll deliver on our approach to longterm asset planning, sustainability, and major works ensuring our homes remain safe, highquality, and ready for the future. Working with colleagues across Housing, Compliance, Finance and Property Services, you’ll play a key part in creating positive change for our customers and our organisation. Most importantly, you’ll be driven to deliver the best possible services to our customers.
Through our Investing in Our People strategy, we’ll support you to gain or continue to build on qualifications aligned with the Competency and Conduct Standard. If the role requires a sectorapproved qualification, you may already meet this requirement or, if not, we’ll help you undertake the appropriate qualification as part of your professional development.
What You’ll Do:
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Lead, develop and inspire a small team focused on asset management and property services.
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Deliver a forwardlooking Asset Management Plan to guide investment and improvement.
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Plan and deliver our programmed and cyclical works from major repairs and upgrades to decarbonisation and sustainability projects.
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Manage budgets and ensure works are highquality, compliant and value for money.
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Oversee contractor frameworks, performance, health & safety and continuous improvement.
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Strengthen our asset data, stock condition intelligence and longterm planning.
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Keep customers and colleagues engaged and informed throughout programmes of work.
What We’re Looking For:
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Strong experience in social housing asset management, planned investment, and major works delivery.
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Excellent understanding of property legislation, compliance, tenancy and leasehold matters, and H&S.
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Confident people manager with experience of leading staff and contractors.
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Skilled at balancing priorities, analysing data, planning workloads and making decisions.
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Strong communicator with excellent numeracy, IT skills and an eye for improvement.
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Someone who lives our PRIDE values Partnership, Respect, Innovation, Drive and Efficiency and is motivated by creating safer, better homes.
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Experience supporting vulnerable customers is essential; relevant professional qualifications are a bonus.
Through our 'Investing in Our People strategy', we’ll support you to gain or continue to build on qualifications aligned with the Competency and Conduct Standard. If the role requires a sectorapproved qualification, you may already meet this requirement or, if not, we’ll help you undertake the appropriate qualification as part of your professional development
For more detail's on the role please review the Job Description.
For more information about the role please contact, Sharon Alexis-Wilson on Email:[email protected]
About the organisation:
Advance is a national, not-for-profit provider of housing and support services for people with disabilities and mental health conditions. Our vision is to transform lives; providing the best quality housing and support services so that people can live the lives they choose, achieve their personal goals, feel valued and know their voices are heard.
We recognise that our people are our greatest asset and we’re passionate about making Advance a great place to work. We invest in our staff, providing the training and support you need to succeed in your role, gain industry-recognised qualifications and realise your career aspirations.
We are an equal opportunities employer who values its staff and the difference they make to their customers. There is no place for racism or discrimination of any kind in Advance. As an organisation, we will not tolerate it. We are firmly committed to recruiting the best colleagues regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation and to supporting customers from similarly diverse backgrounds.
All newly appointed staff receive an induction, during which they will learn about our PRIDE values, our expectations of how they should treat our customers and our commitments in relation to how they will be treated as a member of staff.
Benefits of working for Advance:
We value our staff and the difference they make to the lives of our customers, which is why we offer the following benefits:
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Paid holiday (from 25 days up to 30 days with long service in addition to bank holidays, pro rata for part time hours)
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Sector specific training is provided as part of induction plus opportunities for professional development
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Access to Perks at Work where you can obtain great discounts of cinema tickets, shopping vouchers and much more
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Long service awards payable in 5 year increments
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Golden Hello/refer a friend receive up to £500
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Cycle to work scheme
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Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
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Free DBS (Disclosures and Barring Service)
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Excellent opportunities to progress your career within Advance
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Enrolment in a pension scheme with matched contributions above the statutory minimum (if you work enough hours to meet the threshold for enrolment)
Advance is regulated by the Regulator of Social Housing and the Care Quality Commission and we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support. You will be required to provide evidence of right to work. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be covered by Advance.
Safeguarding:
At Advance, Safeguarding is embedded in our organisational culture it’s reflected in our values, our behaviours, and the way we work together. We believe that creating a safe environment is not just about compliance, but about cultivating trust, openness, and accountability at every level.
As the organisation’s Safeguarding Lead, Ryan Brummitt, Executive Director of Support, oversees our safeguarding arrangements and ensures that concerns are acted upon quickly, sensitively and in line with national legislation and local safeguarding procedures.
We believe that safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. Whether you are a customer, family member, colleague or partner organisation, if you have any concerns about the welfare or safety of someone we support or of any member of our team please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
[email protected]
Together, we can ensure that Advance remains a safe, supportive and inclusive organisation for all.
We value diversity and therefore welcome applications from everyone interested in working at Advance. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Advance Housing & Support Ltd reserves the right to close this job once sufficient applications have been received.
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