Career Opportunities
Looking for a Career Opportunity with a Work/Life Balance in one of the most beautiful places in the UK?
South Lakes Housing (SLH) owns and manages more than 3,200 homes in one of the most stunning parts of the UK.
Our office in Kendal sits on the edge of the Lake District National Park and just a few miles to the east you’ll find yourself in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It’s a fantastic place to live and work, that offers the ideal blend of quality of life and real professional challenge.
The need for affordable homes has never been greater, with many working families unable to afford market price homes, in an area of high demand.
There couldn’t be a better time to join SLH as we have a new business strategy and a business transformation programme underway to take stock and refresh how we work, to ensure that we have the right structure, talent and objectives in place to deliver the very best on behalf of our customers and communities.
We remain as ambitious as ever and have set out clear goals in our 5-year business strategy with strategic themes of ‘Growing, Greening & Transforming’,
- Plans to build 400 new homes,
- Investing to achieve all homes at Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) Band C (except hard to treat) by 2025
- and 80% customer satisfaction.
We have also introduced our Customer First Commitment and ‘Lets Make it Happen’ training programme which puts customers at the heart of everything we do at SLH this will provide us with more opportunities to learn from our customer’s experience.
We are re-imagining our business, reshaping our services and ensuring that we are poised to respond to the needs of our customers and communities.
Benefits of working for SLH:
Acknowledging that to be an award winning team, SLH needs to attract and retain the best people. That is why we offer an outstanding rewards package with an excellent range of benefits:
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Hybrid Working- working from home, with only a requirement to attend the office a minimum of 4 days per month
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Pension Scheme – You will be auto enrolled into the Social Housing Pension Scheme (SHPS) Defined Contribution Scheme. (10% Employer / 0% Employee and the option for the Employee to contribute which SLH will match this contribution up to a maximum of 4% additional employer contribution)
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26 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays) increasing by 1 day after each completed year of service, up to a maximum of 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
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Employee wellbeing programme
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Family friendly benefits – maternity, paternity, shared paternity, adoption
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Simply Health cash plan
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Special leave (for those unexpected emergencies)
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Sick pay (above statutory provision)
- Training to keep you up to date and develop your skills
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Following successful completion of your probationary period, a holiday purchase scheme enabling you to purchase up to 10 extra days per year
What can SLH do for you?
- Values-based organisation, making a difference for our customers- We just care!
- We believe in you:
- having a work life balance.
- having your say in what we do- having a say through our staff forums/feedback groups.
- Support for when you have those “blips” in your life.
- We believe in investing in you- training you to keep you up to date and develop your personal and professional skills.
- Everyone is valued and appreciated- we recognise when we think you have really gone that extra mile.
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