Overview

Langley has a fantastic opportunity for an organised, client focussed and results driven Deputy Housing Manager with good communication and interpersonal skills to join our busy and friendly team based in Brent. This role is a permanent full time role.working a minimum of 40 hours per week. The successful candidate will receive a salary of £29,982 per annum plus a £3,425.39 London Weighting Allowance, pension and excellent benefits.

REWARDS PACKAGE

• Company funded health cash plan

• Access to the Flexible Benefits Portal where you can tailor benefits to your individual needs

• Generous annual leave increasing with service up to 30 days plus bank holidays

• Fantastic pension scheme, matched up to 8%

• Life Assurance up to 3 times your salary

• Fully funded DBS, renewals and DBS update service subscriptions

• Company sick pay scheme

• ‘Smart Health’, which includes unlimited access to online, telephone and video GP

• Access to private holiday flat in Torquay

• Wellbeing Support – our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme includes free counselling and legal advice

• Eyecare & Flu vouchers

• Menopause support

• Enhanced Maternity Pay

• Access to Blue Light Card discounts

• Long Service Awards

• Access to chaplaincy and pastoral support

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

As our Deputy Housing Manager, you will positively support the Housing Services Manager in providing leadership to the staff team and supporting and facilitating the needs of the service users, in line with our Christian Mission and Values, legislative and regulatory requirements.

• To maintain a Christ centred culture, values and reputation and to demonstrate strategic Christian leadership.

• To understand in detail and act upon the ex-offending and restrictive licence conditions (of some) of the applicants and the letting process in line with our procedure.

• Supervising staff including giving Christian pastoral support and ensuring that pastoral needs are being met. The post holder must be a Christ centred individual who is able to put their belief in Christ into action as a leader and supervisor of staff

• To supervise and help support the development of staff as directed by your line manager and to assist in the recruitment, training and supervision of the staff team. To assist in the allocation of tasks to staff in order to achieve the key performance indicators of the project and ensure compliance of the Trust’s policies and procedures.

• Using your housing knowledge, to support the Housing Officers in providing information and advice about Welfare Benefits especially Housing Benefit.

• You will work with clients to prevent evictions whilst working with the Housing Manager to ensure that when necessary, all evictions meet legal requirements.

The successful candidate will be a practicing Christian who will create an environment where people feel valued, empowered and equipped to do their best work. This person will play a key part in providing strong Christian leadership and will be required to uphold the Trust’s Christian ethos and Christ like culture, aligned with our Christian Identity , and therefore there is a genuine occupational requirement for the post holder to be a practicing and professing Christian under the Equality Act 2010.

Please copy and paste this link into your browser : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z6gCWdxFQegFrK39iB8l_6HvlIAYTOR1/view?usp=sharing to view the job description. If you want to join our team as our Deputy Housing Manager, please apply now as we would love to hear from you.

Closing date: 13/02/2025

We reserve the right to close earlier if we receive sufficient applicants.

About Langley Trust

Langley is an innovative Christian charity that provides specialist housing, care and support services in the community, and targeted advice in prisons, for people seeking to live crime-free. With one of the lowest reconvictions rates in the country – under 3% whilst people are in our housing and care – we are changing lives and making communities safer across the country.

We’re proud to be accredited as an ‘Investors in People: Gold’ employer, which celebrates the way we invest in our people. This is a huge achievement as our assessment covers the last 3 years of unprecedented challenges through the pandemic. This is the third time we have been awarded Investors in People’s Gold standard.

About Dorado

Our Dorado Service offers accommodation in Brent to a diverse client base with low needs, who are supported by a strong multi-disciplinary housing team

DISABILITY CONFIDENT

As a Level 2 Disability Confident Committed employer, we run a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria listed in the job description. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please state this in your application.

We’re proud to be an Investors in People Gold employer which means we invest in our people. This is a huge achievement as our assessment covers the last 3 years of unprecedented challenges through the pandemic; additionally, Investors in People have raised the bar and acknowledge that it is harder now to secure the Gold standard than in previous years as they want to keep it meaningful.

A satisfactory enhanced DBS check is required for this role and job offers will be subject to the Trust receiving satisfactory evidence of the successful applicant’s right to work in the UK.

This role is eligible for consideration under the Employee Referral Scheme . For further information around the referring principals and scope, please consult the Employee Referral Scheme Guide.

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