Scheme Manager

Are you passionate about supporting people and making a real difference to their lives?

We are committed to delivering an excellent service that puts residents at the heart of everything we do. Going beyond our regulatory responsibilities, we aim to create safe, supportive, and thriving communities where residents can live independently and well.

You will play a key role in delivering a front-line tenancy support service within our housing schemes, supporting residents, fostering community wellbeing, and helping to make our schemes great places to live.

You will be part of a dedicated service that brings people from diverse backgrounds together, helping them to connect, thrive, and maintain their independence, supported by our wider commitment to fairness, inclusion, and resident engagement.

Contract type: This role is permanent

There is full information about the role below and attached but, if you would like an informal discussion, please contact Andy Crosby on Andy.Crosby@brighton-hove.gov.uk

About the role

As a Scheme Manager, you will play an essential role in making our schemes a great place to live. You will:

• Provide day-to-day tenancy support to residents aged 55 and over, helping them to live independently and maintain their wellbeing.
• Build a friendly, diverse and supportive community within the scheme.
• Help manage the scheme and ensure the building is safe, secure, and a comfortable place for residents to live.
• Respond to emergencies and urgent situations, including attending alarm activations when required.
• Carry out regular wellbeing checks to ensure residents are safe, supported, and accounted for.
• Support colleagues deliver the seniors housing service across the city where needed.

About you

We are looking for someone who:

• Has experience working with people aged 55 and over, ideally in a sheltered housing or retirement housing setting.
• Can manage a busy workload and work well on their own.
• Can communicate clearly, sensitively, and with empathy, even in challenging situations.
• Works well with residents, colleagues, and partner organisations.
• Can help create a friendly, active, diverse and supportive community.

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Why work for us?
As a council, we want to:
• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

How to apply
Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.

As part of your application, you will need to provide your education and career history and answer some application/shortlisting questions. Your answers to the application/shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

AI advice for candidates
We are interested in hearing about your experience and skills in your own words. While we value people who know how to use AI, we ask that you minimise using it in your application.

We are keen to hear how your experience and skills align to our values and the skills and experience needed to perform well in our roles with clear real examples from you. To support you in this, we have guidance on using the STAR model which can help you ensure you are telling us your whole story. We also provide clarity on the skills we are looking for in our adverts and in the job description/person specification attached to each job advert.

All the applications we receive are read by at least two hiring managers and we do not use AI in this process. Our experience of reading applications is that those that have heavily used AI contain generic paragraphs that are strikingly similar to other applicants’ responses. This makes it extremely difficult to differentiate between applications, and doesn't give us enough evidence of your individual skills. There is a risk that we will therefore not be able to shortlist you. Instead, we recommend you ensure your application stands out by presenting clear examples of your actual skills and experiences in your own words.

Additional information
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.