Onward

About The Role What you can expect from us We offer a competitive salary of £28,700 per annum. 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays a total of 40 days paid holiday per annum which is equivalent to 8 weeks. Salary Finance - access both short and long terms loans, plus provides access to a savings facility. Opportunity to further increase annual leave with service or though the holiday purchase scheme. Immediate entry to our Pension scheme (matched contributions up to 10%). A great flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies. Health cash plan with financial benefits and the option to extend to your family. Cover includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, 24HR private GP access and much more. Paid leave for absence including sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave. Access of up to £150 annually through the 'Learning for life' scheme. Access to a wide range of discounts and cash back offers, ranging from retail and automotive to holidays and cycle to work scheme. Develop your career with support and access to training and qualifications. 2 paid half days volunteering per year. About the role Onward Homes are now recruiting for a Scheme Manager for our Birch Lea Park Housing with care development in the heart of Hattersley in Tameside. The site features 91 modern apartments alongside a range of helpful on-site services, including tailored care packages for those who need them. Job Requirements Suitable candidates will be required to work one weekend every 4 weeks with time off taken back the following week . The role will be based at our Birch Lea Park Extra Care site in Hattersley Tameside. A Full UK Driving Licence and access to your own car is required for this role. Job Responsibilities The purpose of the role is to provide intensive housing and building management services, at Onward sheltered housing schemes enabling tenants to live confidently and independently in their own homes and ensuring Onward meet its health & safety and compliance requirements. Service Delivery Provide each tenant with an agreed level of intensive housing management. Respond to tenant and scheme emergencies. Provide each resident with regular contact and a Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan (PEEPS) Health & Safety Compliance Ensure that each Sheltered Housing scheme meets the regulatory standards for all health and safety and compliance requirements. Ensure the property logbooks are up to date and all requirements are met. Partnership Working Liaise with health and social care providers, voluntary agencies, and others assisting tenants to maintain their accommodation. Develop processes of direct communication with tenants, relatives of tenants, the wider community and external parties. Neighbourhoods Ensure all voids, lettings and housing management issues are communicated to neighbourhoods ensuring collaborative working. Ensure that effective, sensitive management practices are maintained by implementing Onward management procedures within the scheme. Line Management & Leadership Whilst the role has not direct line management responsibilities our Scheme Managers will lead through setting a positive example in delivering a first class housing management service through our value of "Excellence, Creativity and Respect" Building Management Oversee the day to day running of scheme, including reporting repairs, health and safety concerns, reducing risk and ensuring security of the building is maintained. Report and monitor performance of repairs and service contracts. Skills/Experience Essential: Experience of dealing with older people in a service environment. Experience of building management and compliance requirements. Relevant knowledge of Health and Safety policies and risks. Ability to work on your own initiative as part of a dispersed team. Skilled communicator with excellent customer service skills. Experience of working proactively to improve services and customer satisfaction. IT skills - Microsoft office up to an intermediate level. Satisfactory Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) reference. Desirable: Knowledge of CQC requirements. Qualifications Essential: Educated to GCSE standard or equivalent qualification/experience. Desirable: National Wardens Certificate / Sheltered Housing Certificate or equivalent. About The Organisation About Onward Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the Northwest, with 35,000 properties across the region. We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we're committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers' heads, we're here to make a real difference. In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential. We embrace diversity and strive for diverse teams to create an inclusive culture which enables Onward to thrive and be representative of the communities that we serve. We want to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be part of our recruitment processes and will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you with our recruitment process via the email address below. If candidates have any concerns / questions in relation to the role at any stage of the recruitment and selection process they can contact the HR team on and a member of the HR Team will be in touch.

About The Role What you can expect from us We offer a competitive salary of £59,800 per annum 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays a total of 40 days paid holiday per annum which is equivalent to 8 weeks. Opportunity to further increase annual leave with service or through the holiday purchase scheme. Immediate entry to our Pension scheme (matched contributions up to 10%). A great flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies. Health cash plan with financial benefits and the option to extend to your family. Cover includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, 24HR private GP access and much more. Paid leave for absence including sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave. Access of up to £150 annually through the 'Learning for life' scheme. Access to a wide range of discounts and cash back offers, ranging from retail and automotive to holidays and cycle to work scheme. Develop your career with support and access to training and qualifications. About the role The purpose of this role is to be responsible for ensuring the organisation complies with the Building Safety Act 2022 and associated regulations for all higher risk buildings (HRBs). The role provides end to end operational assurance that each occupied HRB is safe well managed and supported by a robust safety case, resident engagement strategy and golden thread of information. You'll be based at our Head Office in Didsbury, with a strong on-site presence across our key apartment schemes at Trencherfield Mill (Wigan), Stanley Park Grand in Handforth, and our Fusion site in Salford. This is a varied, site-based role where you'll spend time across multiple locations depending on business needs. While your main focus will be at Trencherfield Mill, Handforth and Fusion, you'll also need to be flexible and travel to other sites across the organisation when required. Job Responsibilities Property Management To develop and maintain a management system for contractor access control, ensuring that all work carried out is in accordance with contract conditions, service level agreements (SLA's), quality assessment programmes, due diligent processes and health and safety practices in line with legislation. Support access provision in the case of out of hours emergencies. Develop, maintain and update the Safety Case report, ensuring evidence for each building is accurate, validated and recorded in the golden thread. Ensure all building documentation (plans, surveys, structural reports, fire strategies) is complete and up to date. Monitor and track all building related actions (fire, structural, servicing, compartmentation) escalating risks as required. Lead routine building safety reviews, inspections and assurance checks across all HRBs. Property Investment Provide input into capital, and planned investment programmes relating to fire, structural, cladding and compliance. Review and validate investment proposals to ensure they address safety case risks and regulatory requirements. Health & Safety and Security Ensure compliance with the Building Safety Act, Fire Safety Act, Fire Safety (England) Regulations. Lead on mandatory reporting to the Building Safety Regulator and ensure building registrations are met. Act as the day-to-day accountable person for building safety risks, ensuring all hazards are identified assessed, controlled and documented. Maintain oversight of fire risk assessments, structural assessments and serious risks requiring immediate mitigation. Ensure out of hours cover is in place for HRB. Act as a first aider on behalf of Onward. Contractor Management Ensure those contractors delivering fire, structural and compliance works are competent, accredited and performance managed. Review contractor survey outputs, validation reports, FRA actions, and engineering assessments for quality and accuracy. Partnership Working Work collaboratively with partners including the Primary Fire Authority Partner, Local Fire and Rescue Services, Police Service, Local Authority and any other relevant stakeholder to ensure effective management and compliance including disaster recovery within the premises. Act as primary operational contact for the Building Safety Regulator. Work collaboratively across internal services (Repairs, Neighbourhoods, Compliance, Assets, Leasehold, Legal) to deliver joined up outcomes. Customer Deliver the Resident Engagement Strategy for higher risk buildings, ensuring residents are informed, involved and reassured. Oversee the building safety concerns process, ensuring concerns are logged, investigated and responded to in statutory timescales. Provide clear building safety information, support engagement sessions and management resident communications. Essential: Knowledge and experience in the operation of relevant statutory regulations, including health and safety matters. Experience and knowledge of CDM, compliance, fire and structural safety Project management skills to assist in the organisation of planned/reactive works to the premises ensuring continued use of premises as necessary. Experience of working in a customer-focused environment providing staff, visitors and customers with an excellent service A demonstrable methodical approach to work, with sound organisational skills, within a team environment but also an ability to work on your own High quality communication skills (both written and verbal) IT skills/experience to enable effective communication and work planning Minimum of five years relevant building management experience in commercial buildings and/or complex residential properties. Experience of managing staff and contractors, working to contractual specification to deliver high quality performance. Flexible approach to the tasks required and the hours of duty. It may be necessary to be contacted out of hours in the event of an emergency. Desirable: Understanding of BIM protocol. Have a minimum of 5 years expience in residential fire safety and a detailed working knowledge of Approved Document B,LACORS, national fire safety guidance on Purpose Built Blocks of Flats and NFCC guidance on Specialised Housing. Qualifications Essential: Professional qualification in a property/building related specialism i.e Degree, BSc or 5 years relevant construction industry experience. Hold a recognised Building Management or Fire Safety qualification (i.e. CIOB Level 6 Building Safety Management, BSC Fire Safety and Risk Management) or be willing to work towards. First Aider Qualification Desirable: (training will be made available) Membership of professional body i.e IFE,FPA,IFSM P405 BOHS Management of Asbestos in Buildings P901 BOHS Legionella Management and Control NEBOSH National Certificate in fire safety and Risk Management or similar About The Organisation About Onward Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the Northwest, with 35,000 properties across the region. We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we're committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers' heads, we're here to make a real difference. In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential. We embrace diversity and strive for diverse teams to create an inclusive culture which enables Onward to thrive and be representative of the communities that we serve. We want to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be part of our recruitment processes and will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you with our recruitment process via the email address below. If candidates have any concerns / questions in relation to the role at any stage of the recruitment and selection process they can contact the HR team on and a member of the HR Team will be in touch.

About The Role We offer a competitive salary of £26,250 per annum (£13.64 per hour). 37 hour per week. 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays a total of 40 days paid holiday per annum which is equivalent to 8 weeks. Salary Finance - access both short and long terms loans, plus provides access to a savings facility. Opportunity to further increase annual leave with service or though the holiday purchase scheme. Immediate entry to our Pension scheme (matched contributions up to 10%). A great flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies. Health cash plan with financial benefits and the option to extend to your family. Cover includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, 24HR private GP access and much more. Paid leave for absence including sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave. Access of up to £150 annually through the 'Learning for life' scheme. Access to a wide range of discounts and cash back offers, ranging from retail and automotive to holidays and cycle to work scheme. Develop your career with support and access to training and qualifications. 2 paid half days volunteering per year. About the Role We are looking for a Property Clearance Operative on a permanent basis to join our Onward Repairs team. This role will cover the Greater Manchester area supporting our team of maintenance trades. The purpose of this role is clearance and cleaning of void properties, including maintenance of gardens and/or communal spaces associated with void properties. This will include loading items onto vehicles and driving to various locations where the items will be unloaded. Other miscellaneous works relating to properties, communal areas, and open spaces. Successful candidates will work in local teams and are not required to report to a depot each day but attend when require for team meetings and replenishment of supplies. It is essential that candidates have a valid full UK driving licence . Key Responsibilities Delivery To carry out clearance and cleaning work of properties vacated by tenants prior to repair or refurbishment works being undertaken. To remove items of furniture and other personal possessions for either storage or disposal. Items are to be removed from all floors including lofts and gardens, onto an appropriate vehicle or skips and to thoroughly clean the property prior to re-occupation. Undertake horticultural practices necessary for the clearance and restoration of gardens and open spaces associated with void properties. Using a variety of cleaning chemicals in compliance with COSHH regulations and associated cleaning tools including small to medium hand-held battery tools. Customer Service To provide excellent customer service whilst ensuring prompt work of the required standard. Quality Ensure all work is delivered to a high standard. Records To complete jobs on PDA's and maintain other records as required Health and Safety Undertake work activities in line with all health and safety requirements demonstrating a sound working knowledge of key legislative health and safety information and safe working practices. Assisting the promotion of Health & Safety. Work equipment Operation of light machinery, plant and powered hand tools in accordance with recognised safety procedures. To be responsible for the safe use and daily maintenance of allocated Company vehicles. Skills / Experience and Qualifications Essential: Achieving high standards within time constraints. Team player. The ability to undertake DIY tasks. Experience of working in a target driven environment. Knowledge of health and safety regulations in line with HASAWA 1974. Literacy skills/ Numeracy skills. Appropriate CSCS card. A full UK driving license is required. Desirable: Experience of working within a commercial and domestic property maintenance environment. Experience of delivering services within the social housing sector. Asbestos awareness training. Relevant power tool and manual handling training. Appropriate and current training in COSHH & PPE. Access equipment and working at height training e.g. mobile work platforms. About The Organisation Onward Repairs is the in house repairs and maintenance service for Onward Homes, keeping customers' homes safe, secure and well maintained. Our skilled teams deliver responsive repairs, planned works and voids services, combining high standards, strong teamwork and a customer first approach. We invest in our people and take pride in making a real difference to our communities. Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the Northwest, with 35,000 properties across the region. We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we're committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers' heads, we're here to make a real difference. In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential. We embrace diversity and strive for diverse teams to create an inclusive culture which enables Onward to thrive and be representative of the communities that we serve. We want to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be part of our recruitment processes and will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you with our recruitment process via the email address below. If candidates have any concerns / questions in relation to the role at any stage of the recruitment and selection process they can contact the HR team on and a member of the HR Team will be in touch.