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Head of Housing (Interim 18M FTC)
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Warwick District Council
Here at Warwick District Council, we pride ourselves on the fact that we offer you a great place to work.
We achieve our goals by recruiting and retaining motivated, empowered, and flexible staff. We are committed to training and development, and we encourage a healthy work-life balance.
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We offer a wide range of career opportunities at every level of the organisation. From apprenticeships to senior management, permanent to fixed term contracts or part-time working, we have something for everyone.
We have a requirement to support and address opportunities and challenges facing our Housing Service. We are clear about our vision to ensure that Warwick District is a great place to live, work, and visit, by improving lives and our environment. As an experienced professional, you will play a pivotal role in our Senior Leadership Team to continue to support our diverse communities.
You will have previous experience working at a senior level in, or closely with local government or social housing and will have experience in building positive relationships with different stakeholders including elected members, senior officers, regulators, and partner organisations.
About Warwick District
Please see the Job Description/Person Specification.
Our vision is to make Warwick District a great place to live, work, and visit, by improving lives and our environment. The Council’s Corporate Strategy – Towards Warwick 2030 is designed to support and deliver our vision for the District and has three strategic priorities:
- Delivering valued, sustainable services - In order that the Council can continue to focus its efforts and activities on the needs of its residents, communities, and businesses, this priority will be underpinned by continued demonstration of financial sustainability through the medium term.
- Low cost, low carbon across the district - The Council will look to find ways to reduce energy consumption and bills in Council civic buildings, Council housing, and help others to do the same, such as privately owned homes, businesses, and other public and voluntary sector organisations.
- Creating vibrant, safe, and healthy communities of the future
We will work with communities, businesses, and public sector partners to enable and support improvements where people’s community, economic, and housing needs can be met. This will facilitate a better and more sustainable balance with the natural world that will allow our communities and businesses to thrive in a sustainable and safe way.
The Council has 44 elected Councillors made up from five political groups. There is no overall control of the Council. Our net revenue general fund expenditure is just under £21.3m, funded mainly by Council Tax (£10.6m), Business Rates (£7.3m), and funding from Government (£3.4m). Our approach emphasises the importance of growth in the local economy and of ensuring that all our communities benefit from that growth. We are confident that our Change Management Programme will address the future service and financial needs of the Council over the next five years and beyond, by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of how we deliver our services.
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Across all services, we employ around 500 people, and our organisation structure sets out our leadership portfolios.
We are an ambitious Council with a clear vision to improve the lives of our local communities through:
- Making better use of our existing resources and consider how we can increase income-generating opportunities
- Working towards 24/7, 365 days a year access to our services through our change programme and digital services strategy
- Ensuring our council homes are safe and meet the Decent Homes standard for all tenants including improving the energy efficiency of homes to meet all new social housing regulatory requirements
- Attracting the right people with the right skills
- Maximising social value through our place shaping initiatives and investments to recycle the Warwick District pound.
- Significantly improving the energy efficiency of our Council buildings
- Reducing carbon emissions and energy bills for our Council tenants through retrofitting
- Enhancing the biodiversity of the district, based on the Biodiversity Action Programme.
The Housing Service
The Housing Service is made up from:
- Landlord Services (6000 properties - approx. 5500 rented & 600 leasehold)
- HRA Asset Management
- Homelessness Services
- Temporary Accommodation
Role focus:
Key focus for this role:
- Lead the housing service to ensure efficient day-to-day service delivery
- Senior Officer Sponsorship for the Consumer Standards Action Plan and to ensure the service is inspection ready for 2027
- Engagement with the Regulator of Social Housing
- Senior Officer Sponsorship for the housing & asset structure review and implementation
- Support the mobilisation of the new repairs and maintenance contract
- Member of the Council’s Senior Leadership Team
Warwick District Council has a C3 Regulatory Judgement - Warwick District Council (44UF) - Regulatory Judgement: 13 September 2024 - GOV.UK and has a comprehensive improvement plan in place.
We are an ambitious Council with unique attributes, and as part of the Senior Leadership Team, you will have the gravitas, the expertise, and the passion to lead, inspire, and enthuse your colleagues, Councillors, and stakeholders to help us in realise our vision and ensure our District achieves its full potential.
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If you are innovative, forward-thinking with substantial experience at a senior level, and want to work for an ambitious Council in a high-profile role, where you can make a real difference even in the short term, then we want to hear from you.
The intention is for the postholder to work predominately from home; however, it is a requirement to attend our offices or sites within Warwick District as required. Any costs for travel from home to the office will be met by the successful candidate. However, office and hybrid working are also available.
If you have any questions or wish to have an informal discussion, please contact Darren Knight, Deputy Chief Executive via email darren.knight@warwickdc.gov.uk or Tracy Dolphin, Head of People & Communications via email Tracy.Dophin@warwickdc.gov.uk
Internal Closing Date: 21/07/2026
Internal Interview Date: 29/07/2026
External Closing Date: 29/07/2026
External Interviews: 12/08/2026
It is important that you fully complete all sections of this application. Only information contained in the application will be used for shortlisting.
Please upload your CV and covering letter to be considered with your application.
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As part of being a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the essential criteria for the post. By ‘essential criteria’, we mean that you must provide us with evidence in your application form which demonstrates that you meet the level of competence required for each competence, as well as meeting any of the qualifications, skills, or experience defined as essential in the person specification. To be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS), applicants must disclose that they have a disability and would like to be considered for the scheme.
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