Scheme Manager - Part Time
| Posting date: | 26 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £14209-14649 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 10 July 2025 |
| Location: | Farnborough, GU14 6UT |
| Company: | Sanctuary Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 225002-43481075 |
Summary
One of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and community services, Sanctuary Group employs around 13,000 people and manages more than 100,000 units of accommodation throughout England and Scotland, including general rented, retirement living, supported housing, student and key worker accommodation and care homes. Sanctuary also provides a range of other services including maintenance, care and telecare, all of which are delivered by our dedicated employees who are completely committed to customer service.
Scheme Manager – Part Time
Shaftesbury Court
- Farnborough
£14,209
- £14,649 per year
20 hours per week
We have an exciting opportunity for a Scheme Manager to join our Housing team in Farnborough. You will be responsible for delivering a high-quality housing management service, which will include promoting independent living, providing tenancy advice and signposting to other agencies for support. This is a rewarding yet challenging role and is ideal for someone who has previous experience of working with older or vulnerable people in a housing management setting and is knowledgeable about safeguarding.
The role of Scheme Manager will include:
- Providing tenancy advice to residents
- Promoting independent living and sign posting to appropriate agencies
- Encouraging residents to organise and get involved in activities
- Completing mandatory compliance tasks along with health and safety checks
- Reporting and monitoring repairs to conclusion, ensuring all necessary paperwork is completed
- Wellbeing calls to residents via warden call system
- Supporting the lettings team to manage vacant flats
- Providing cover at schemes in the region for other Scheme Managers
- Managing low level anti-social behaviour
Skills and experiences:
- Numeracy and literacy to the equivalent of GCSE Grade C or above in English and Maths
- Some experience of working with older people and understanding their individual needs or similar
- Ability to work alone and manage workloads to meet deadlines
- Working knowledge of handling confidential and sensitive information
- Good interpersonal and customer care skills
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams
- Occasional travel may be requirement of the role, therefore a full valid driving licence is essential
Why work for us?
Sanctuary Housing is one of the UK’s leading social landlords, providing around 70,000 homes across England. We give our residents good quality, affordable homes in communities that they can be proud of. As part of a not-for-profit organisation, we reinvest any surplus we make back into the local communities we serve.
Our Benefits
As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental and financial health and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:
- 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days) plus public holidays (pro rata)
- A pension scheme with employer contributions from Sanctuary
- Life Assurance
- Employee Advice Service including counselling
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Voluntary health plans
- Employee discounts
- Wellbeing support and tools
- Employee recognition scheme
- Employee Networks, with a shared interest in inclusion, and who provide invaluable support to colleagues
- Employee recognition scheme
- £14,3209 per annum (rising to £14,649 per annum after 12 months, subject to satisfactory performance)
The full time equivalent salary for this role is £26,643 based on 37.5 hours per week rising to £27,467 after 12 months service and subject to satisfactory performance
Closing Date: 10/07/2025
If you're unsure about any details, have questions about the role or want to discuss a need for adjustments, our fantastic talent team will be happy to help you – housing.recruitment@sanctuary.co.uk
We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.
For an insight into what it’s like to work for us, take a look at our company page on Linkedin
Inclusion is one of our core values. Our goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive and meet our customers’ needs with fairness and empathy. We know having a range of ideas and opinions makes a difference. We encourage and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission. We will make adjustments throughout your application process, in line with Sanctuary’s commitment to our Disability Confident employer status.
Scheme Manager – Part Time
Shaftesbury Court
- Farnborough
£14,209
- £14,649 per year
20 hours per week
We have an exciting opportunity for a Scheme Manager to join our Housing team in Farnborough. You will be responsible for delivering a high-quality housing management service, which will include promoting independent living, providing tenancy advice and signposting to other agencies for support. This is a rewarding yet challenging role and is ideal for someone who has previous experience of working with older or vulnerable people in a housing management setting and is knowledgeable about safeguarding.
The role of Scheme Manager will include:
- Providing tenancy advice to residents
- Promoting independent living and sign posting to appropriate agencies
- Encouraging residents to organise and get involved in activities
- Completing mandatory compliance tasks along with health and safety checks
- Reporting and monitoring repairs to conclusion, ensuring all necessary paperwork is completed
- Wellbeing calls to residents via warden call system
- Supporting the lettings team to manage vacant flats
- Providing cover at schemes in the region for other Scheme Managers
- Managing low level anti-social behaviour
Skills and experiences:
- Numeracy and literacy to the equivalent of GCSE Grade C or above in English and Maths
- Some experience of working with older people and understanding their individual needs or similar
- Ability to work alone and manage workloads to meet deadlines
- Working knowledge of handling confidential and sensitive information
- Good interpersonal and customer care skills
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams
- Occasional travel may be requirement of the role, therefore a full valid driving licence is essential
Why work for us?
Sanctuary Housing is one of the UK’s leading social landlords, providing around 70,000 homes across England. We give our residents good quality, affordable homes in communities that they can be proud of. As part of a not-for-profit organisation, we reinvest any surplus we make back into the local communities we serve.
Our Benefits
As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental and financial health and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:
- 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days) plus public holidays (pro rata)
- A pension scheme with employer contributions from Sanctuary
- Life Assurance
- Employee Advice Service including counselling
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Voluntary health plans
- Employee discounts
- Wellbeing support and tools
- Employee recognition scheme
- Employee Networks, with a shared interest in inclusion, and who provide invaluable support to colleagues
- Employee recognition scheme
- £14,3209 per annum (rising to £14,649 per annum after 12 months, subject to satisfactory performance)
The full time equivalent salary for this role is £26,643 based on 37.5 hours per week rising to £27,467 after 12 months service and subject to satisfactory performance
Closing Date: 10/07/2025
If you're unsure about any details, have questions about the role or want to discuss a need for adjustments, our fantastic talent team will be happy to help you – housing.recruitment@sanctuary.co.uk
We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.
For an insight into what it’s like to work for us, take a look at our company page on Linkedin
Inclusion is one of our core values. Our goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive and meet our customers’ needs with fairness and empathy. We know having a range of ideas and opinions makes a difference. We encourage and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission. We will make adjustments throughout your application process, in line with Sanctuary’s commitment to our Disability Confident employer status.
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