Summary:
We are looking for an Estates Co-ordinator to join our Living Well service, helping us maintain homes to a high standard and ensuring improvement works are carried out safely and efficiently.
About us:
United Welsh is an award-winning not-for-profit organisation providing homes and related services in South Wales. We are passionate about building homes, creating communities and transforming lives.
We provide almost 6,700 affordable homes for people across 11 local authority areas, and our services help thousands more in our communities.
We work hard to make a difference and step up when our communities need us. Providing homes is just the start. Helping people to live happily and in good health is important to us, and we are proud to have been named fifth best landlord in the UK.
We have a new building programme that is worth around £35m each year and in the next five years, we intend to build 1,300 more homes. We are ambitious about how we can help people to live their best lives, working with a range of partners including local and national government and the NHS to give people choice; tackling poverty, improving wellbeing and playing our part in ending homelessness.
The United Welsh Group also incorporates our subsidiary Celtic Horizons Ltd which, in partnership, looks after all our property services, and Harmoni Homes Ltd, which offers affordable homes and homes for sale.
We have also developed a new social enterprise, Celtic Offsite, that manufactures low carbon homes and supports the local economy to thrive.
With almost 400 employees and a turnover of over £40m, we are an ambitious organisation with a strong sense of social purpose.
Life at United Welsh centres around our culture. We live by our values which connect us and inspire us, guiding our strategies as well as the decisions we make day to day.
Job Role:
We are looking for someone with flexible communication skills and a solutions-based approach to join our Living Well team and help us deliver a person-centered service to our residents.
This is a pivotal role in the delivery of an excellent service for Living Well residents, ensuring that properties are maintained to a high standard, are safe and that improvement works are identified and carried out in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
Working in and around the Cardiff and Caerphilly area, you will work closely with Living Well and Celtic Horizons staff to provide an excellent service and ensure that our legal and regulatory requirements are met.
For full details about the role and responsibilities, please see the attached Applicant Pack. To arrange an informal chat about the role, please contact Jemma Browning at Jemma.Browning@unitedwelsh.com
Download the Applicant Pack here
Additional Information:
Location: Cardiff and Caerphilly
Hours: Full Time, 35 hours
Salary: £27,000 per annum
Contract: Temporary until 31st March 2026
Closing date: 18th February 2025
Interview date: 24th February 2025
We do reserve the right to close this role early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
To Apply:
To apply, please send a copy of your CV and cover letter to jobs@unitedwelsh.com. In the cover letter, please outline why you believe you would be successful in this role based on your experience and the essential/desirable criteria in the job description, in no more than 1,000 words.
In addition to your CV and cover letter, please also complete our online Equality, Diversity and Declaration of Interest form which can be found on our website here. If you do not complete all parts of this process, you will be at risk of your application not being progressed further.
We reserve the right to close this role early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
Within your CV, please provide the names, positions, organisations and contact details for two referees, one of whom should be your current or most recent employer. We will not approach these referees prior to the shortlist stage, and we will seek your permission first. However, references will be sought as part of our pre-employment checks for the successful candidate.
- We would be grateful if you could submit the Equality Diversity and Declaration of Interest form with your application. The information you provide will be used for monitoring purposes only and will be kept separate from your application
- Please ensure your CV and other documents are emailed as a Word or PDF file, as unfortunately, we are currently unable to accept applications in any other formats at the moment
- Requirements within the essential criteria of the Personal Requirements will be used for shortlisting purposes. However, all the criteria will be considered in the process of making an appointment.
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