Head of Communications & Corporate Support

Cardiff, UK (On-site)

£68K/yr – £77K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

Job Summary

Lead a portfolio of services and shape how staff and residents experience Wales & West Housing Group while driving communications, engagement and customer-focused support across the organisation.

  • Own and develop multidisciplinary teams and ensure services deliver value and positive outcomes.
  • Build strong relationships with senior leaders, residents and stakeholders to support organisational priorities.
  • Lead Welsh language services, community assistance and corporate support services with a customer-focused approach.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • - lead a portfolio of services that help shape how staff and residents experience Wales & West Housing Group.
  • - lead how we communicate and engage with colleagues, residents, Board members and stakeholders. You will work with our Communications & Corporate Engagement Team to ensure we support leaders to communicate effectively and ensure people have meaningful opportunities to contribute to organisational priorities and improvement activity.
  • - provide leadership for Welsh language services, community assistance, and corporate support services, ensuring these areas are responsive, customer-focused and make a positive contribution to the organisation and the communities we serve.
  • - Working across organisational boundaries, you will build strong relationships, identify opportunities for improvement and use feedback and performance information to help services continually evolve and improve.
  • - lead and develop a multidisciplinary team, create a culture of collaboration and service excellence, and ensure resources are focused on delivering value and positive outcomes.
  • - help colleagues thrive, strengthen engagement across the organisation and maximise WWHG's impact in our communities.
  • - be a strategic and inspiring leader with experience of communications, engagement, customer-focused or support services.
  • - be an excellent relationship builder, comfortable working with senior leaders and able to bring people together around a shared purpose.
  • - be passionate about making a difference to people's lives, homes and communities.

Requirements

  • - experience of communications, engagement, customer-focused or support services.
  • - excellent relationship builder, comfortable working with senior leaders and able to bring people together around a shared purpose.

Benefits

  • - 25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days with service the ability to buy and sell up to 5 days (pro rata), as well as, time off for volunteering, health screening and more.
  • - 9 Bank Holidays per annum, including an extra day at Christmas!
  • - Choice of Defined Contribution or Defined Benefit pension, both including 3x death in service life insurance cover.
  • - Opportunities to develop and grow,
  • - Regular feedback, training and support from your manager and team,
  • - Comprehensive support in case of sickness with a generous sick pay scheme, critical illness cover and support through an employee assistance and counselling service and a cash plan benefit.
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Wales & West Housing

3.5 Glassdoor

Wales & West Housing are one of the leading housing providers in Wales. We operate across 13 local authority areas, providing quality, affordable homes and services to more than 20,000 residents. We are a major Welsh employer, with over 400 staff at WWH and 200 staff in our subsidiary company, figures that are growing year on year. We have been established since 1965, and we have grown from our first scheme of 49 flats in Cardiff, to over 12,400 properties across Wales. We have three main offices situated in Ewloe, North Wales, Newcastle Emlyn, West Wales and our Headquarters in Cardiff. Our staff are asked to feed back every year, and their feedback has led to the Best Companies accreditation confirming us as a 3 Star, World Class Group of companies to work for. In 2023, we were recognised by Best Companies for 10 years of being a World Class organisation to work for. We were also the first organisation in Wales to achieve the Investors in People Platinum Standard in 2018 for the excellent way we operate and look after our staff and we are very proud to have retained this standard.We are really proud of the fact that our staff love working for us, a lot of this is down to the unique culture we have here at WWH. Our aim is to create a place that everyone wants to work in and environment where every staff member feels supported and valued. Our values are really important to us at WWH and you will hear us talk a lot about being a values led organisation; our values drive the way we behave.Our mission is 'to achieve strong, sustainable growth to make a difference to people's lives, homes and communities.' Wales & West Housing has charitable status and we believe we should be more than just a landlord. We also believe in listening to what our customers tell us. That's why we work with our residents and partners to develop and support the communities in which they live.http://www.wwha.co.uk

Founded in 1965
Cardiff, Wales, GBR
261 employees (9 in marketing)
51% recommend to a friend

Salaries

Posted range

£68K/yr – £77K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
9 (3% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
16.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
53.3%
Direct
34.1%
Referral
7.3%
Social
4.1%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~261
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Head of Communications & Corporate Support

Wales & West Housing · Cardiff, UK · On-site