About this role
Retirement Living Regional Manager
Location: Bournemouth
Salary: £35,665 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hours per week)
Home Based, covering Bournemouth, Southampton, Botley and Gosport
They’re looking for an inspiring and values-led Retirement Living Regional Manager to lead the delivery of high-quality, customer-centred retirement living services across a defined locality.
In this key leadership role, you’ll manage and motivate a team of customer-facing colleagues to ensure their customers feel engaged, valued, and supported to live their best lives. You’ll champion excellent service delivery, compliance, value for money, and continuous improvement — always guided by their customer promise: “If it matters to their customers, it matters to us.”
You’ll also play a vital role in building strong partnerships within local communities, ensuring their retirement living services remain vibrant, inclusive, safe, and sustainable.
What you’ll be doing
Lead, inspire and develop teams, fostering a high-performance and customer-focused cultureSet clear objectives and take accountability for team performance, outcomes, and KPIsOversee a geographically defined portfolio of retirement living services, ensuring high standards of housing management, compliance, and statutory requirementsUse data and insight to identify opportunities for service improvement and inclusive community developmentEnsure service charges are transparent, fully recoverable, and compliant with regulationsChampion health & safety, safeguarding, risk management, and business continuity planningWork collaboratively with internal colleagues and a wide range of external partners, including statutory services and community organisationsSupport innovative service design, co-production with customers, and the effective use of technology What they’re looking for
You’ll bring:
Experience working in a similar housing, care, wellbeing, or community-based environmentProven experience managing and developing teams, including performance managementA strong track record of delivering against KPIs and driving continuous improvementKnowledge of safeguarding, relevant legislation, and best practice relating to older peopleStrong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skillsAn analytical and creative approach to problem-solvingA commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion, and co-produced servicesKnowledge of health and safety requirements and good practiceThe ability to manage multiple priorities and projectsConfidence in producing clear reports and communicating recommendationsFlexibility to work across the locality Why join them?
You’ll be joining a passionate Retirement Living team that’s focused on making a real difference to people’s lives. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape services, influence positive change, and be part of an organisation that truly puts customers at the heart of everything it does.
Appointment to this role will be subject to a satisfactory references, a satisfactory DBS, and possession of a valid Right to Work document.
Discover The organisation
The organisation is a leading housing provider. They manage around 40,000 homes, serving 93,000 customers across their portfolio of affordable properties for general rent, shared ownership and sale, alongside specialist accommodation, with an ambitious house-building programme.
Their mission is to provide quality homes and services for people whose needs are not met by the open market.
They’re looking for like-minded people to join their team of over 900 talented colleagues who embody their values of being ethical, ambitious, passionate, agile and commercial, as well as people who want to make a difference and transform people’s lives.
They are a Disability Confident Employer and working towards accreditation for becoming a Disability Confident Leader, which allows them to record and report on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace to better support their colleagues. They have also achieved accreditation for being an Advanced Employer for Investing in Ethnicity Maturity Matrix. They are committed to being a Menopause Friendly employer and working towards accreditation their Menopause Friendly accreditation.
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for the organisation, please do not hesitate to apply.