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The vacancy
We're looking for an experienced Regional Housing Lead to lead housing services across South Shropshire and help shape the future of our Housing team.
This is a newly created role as part of our ambitious redesign of Housing Services. We're investing in stronger local leadership and creating more direct connections between our teams, customers and communities. As one of four Regional Housing Leads, you'll play a key role in embedding this new approach and influencing how services are delivered across your region.
You'll provide leadership and direction to a team of a Senior Housing Officer and Housing Officers, ensuring excellent housing management services across South Shropshire. You'll drive performance in key areas including tenancy management, rent collection, arrears management and anti-social behaviour, while identifying opportunities to improve services, strengthen customer satisfaction and deliver positive outcomes.
We're looking for a confident and engaging housing professional with a strong track record in housing management and people leadership. You'll be passionate about developing others, building effective relationships with customers and partners, and using insight and performance data to drive continuous improvement.
South Shropshire is a diverse and rewarding region to manage, covering market towns, villages and rural communities. This role offers the opportunity to have a visible impact, lead through change and help shape the future of Housing Services at Connexus.
This is a hybrid role, combining home and office working. Our Head Office is based in Craven Arms, and regular travel across South Shropshire and to other Connexus locations will be required.
This role will be subject to a Standard DBS check.
Shortlisting date: 22 October 2026
Interview date: 29 October 2026
Please note that we may close this vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. We therefore encourage interested applicants to apply as soon as possible.
About Connexus
Connexus is a rural housing association with its heritage in Shropshire and Herefordshire, providing good quality, affordable and safe homes that customers are proud to live in. We create inclusive neighbourhoods, sustainable rural communities, and provide services that support our customers to build a life in their home. The work our teams do is varied, and no two days are the same.
We provide an excellent offer for colleagues which includes flexible working options combined with some fantastic benefits. We’re here to support colleagues at every step of the way with training and development opportunities, helping you make the most of your career. If you want to work with like-minded people and would like to make a difference to the lives of our customers, Connexus could be the right fit for you.
Connexus is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce, this is because we really understand the importance of different voices, experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds within our workforce. We strongly encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups.
Life at Connexus
Connexus is a community focused rural housing group with over 10,500 homes across Shropshire and Herefordshire.
Our people are passionate about the services we provide and we will invest in them and empower them to provide a great service to all of our customers.
Our clear focus is excellent service delivery.
Some of the benefits
30 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays (Pro-rata'd if part-time)
Generous pension scheme
Company healthcare plan
Continual learning and development opportunities
Paid sickness leave (upon successful completion of probationary period)
Enhanced maternity/ paternity pay
Long service award
Flexible and hybrid working
Career development through clear pathways
We're rooting for you
Interviewing isn’t easy and believe us when we say “we’re rooting for you”; we want everyone to be able to do their best.
We know it can be daunting to put yourself out there and sometimes the unknown interview processes make things even scarier! So, we thought we’d help by sharing a little about what you can expect from us in terms of our approach to recruitment.
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