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More about your role
Do you want to use your housing expertise to make a real difference to how homes are managed and maintained across the sector? Are you passionate about sharing knowledge and helping others develop the skills to provide safer, healthier homes for residents?
This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of housing education by delivering courses on Damp & Mould awareness, Awaab's Law, Housing Disrepair, and Fitness for Habitation.
You'll play a key role in equipping housing professionals with the legal understanding and practical tools they need to protect residents and uphold standards across Places for People and organisations in the Housing Sector.
This role is offered on a 12-month fixed term contract, with the potential to become permanent as we expand our training and apprenticeship programmes.
If you're ready to play your part in building healthier homes and inspiring the next generation of housing professionals, we'd love to hear from you.
What you'll do:
* Develop and deliver engaging learning content on Healthy Homes, with a focus on damp, mould, and related issues.
* Create practical, interactive resources and workshops that bring the subject to life for housing professionals at all levels.
* Assess learner progress through assignments, discussions, and workplace application, ensuring learning translates into action.
* Keep content up to date with legislation, regulation, and emerging best practice across the sector.
* Provide coaching, support, and constructive feedback to learners to help embed lasting knowledge and confidence.
* Contribute to the wider PfP Thrive training offer, supporting the development of future courses and qualifications.
About you:
The Essential Criteria for this role is listed below:
* Substantial experience working within the social housing sector, particularly in roles related to property condition, building surveying, or repairs
* Strong understanding of damp and mould issues, including health impacts and remediation strategies
* Familiarity with Awaab's Law, housing disrepair legislation, and landlord responsibilities
If you meet the essential criteria, have the following skill sets and want to make a tangible difference, we'd love to hear from you:
* Ideally, qualified to deliver training (e.g. Level 3 Award in Learning and Development or Teaching and Assessing, or willing to work towards it).
* Excellent communicator and facilitator, able to engage learners with different levels of technical knowledge.
* Confident designing lesson plans, materials, and assessments that are both robust and practical.
* Organised, proactive, and passionate about raising standards in the housing sector.
* Flexible and willing to travel to deliver face-to-face sessions when required.
The benefits
We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you all the challenge you could wish for.
We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package with each role, yours will include:
* Competitive salary, with a salary review yearly
* Pension with matched contributions up to 7%
* Excellent holiday package – up to 35 days annual leave with the option to buy or sell leave
* Cashback plan for healthcare costs – up to £500 saving per year
* A bonus scheme for all colleagues at 2%
What's next?
If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then apply following our simple 5 minute application process, upload a CV and a supporting statement which demonstrates how you meet the requirements of the role. If you have any questions please email the recruitment team
As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a guaranteed interview to candidates who are disabled, neurodiverse, or have served in the Armed Forces, provided you meet the essential criteria for the role. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this in your application.
We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview experience, please let us know. We're happy to work with you to ensure you have the opportunity to perform at your best.
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Please note that we may bring the closing date forward, if we receive a large number of quality applications. If you are interested in this role we would advise applying immediately to avoid disappointment.
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Safeguarding
At Places for People, safeguarding is everyone's responsibility. We are committed to creating safe communities for our customers and colleagues by protecting children, young people, and adults at risk from harm, abuse, and neglect.
We follow robust safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring all employees, volunteers, and contractors uphold the highest standards of safeguarding and accountability. Our recruitment process includes pre-employment checks, including Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks where applicable, to promote a safe and secure working environment.
By joining Places for People, you are expected to contribute to our safeguarding culture, following our policies and reporting concerns to protect those in our communities