Director Of Operations

• Dec 2021 - Present

Chief Executive

• Mar 2021 - Dec 2021

Leading a small and growing community based housing association delivering great quality homes and services to allow older people to live independently. Leading a small and growing community based housing association delivering great quality homes and services to allow older people to live independently.

Chief Executive

• Apr 2006 - Nov 2019

Leading a vibrant organisation of 200 people in a wide variety of disciplines to deliver one thing- a positive improvement in people's lives; whether through improving tenant's homes or helping some improve their life chances.

Chief Executive

• Apr 2006 - Nov 2019

Created, lead and developed an effective and successful locally based Housing Association, with an ambitious vision, determined to deliver top quartile operational performance and customer satisfaction, became an effective local community leader and regenerate homes and communities.Established an organisational and staffing structure; recruited a diverse Executive Team, developed the Board, established the vision and sold it to all staff. Delivered on time and within budget of £50m improvements to 5,000 homes External recognition such as an Inspection score putting us in the top 10% of Housing Associations in the UK, Investors in People Champion status and rated in Sunday Times Top 100 not for profit places to work.Delivered significant cultural change with a flexible, paperless office environment, digital customer service and deliver focus.Achieved highest sustainability rating in the North West region for our very first new build scheme.Created form scratch a development programme of 300 new homes through a mixture of asset redevelopmentDeveloped and implemented a comprehensive asset management strategy in conjunction with planning specialists, private developers and designers to maximise land values, create capacity for additional new build development, maximise sustainability, and set clear ambitious quality standards and match changing demographic and aspiration demands.Tackled issues of poor quality and low demand sheltered housing schemes through a mixture of high density site redevelopment for general needs, site disposal in high value areas and exploring extra care provision in conjunction with private sector provider.Collaborating successfully with major external stakeholders to be a major community developer, to help narrow the gap on a range of social deprivation indices such as health, education, and employment .Collaborating with staff and unions to create a great place to work, rated as such by over 90% of staff in a survey.

Chief Executive

• 2002 - 2006

To provide stability, focus and confidence to a troubled Housing Association formerly known as Burnely & Padiham Community Housing.This involved re-structuring both staff and the business plan, regaining funder confidence, rebranding and introducing a peerformance culture. To provide stability, focus and confidence to a troubled Housing Association formerly known as Burnely & Padiham Community Housing.This involved re-structuring both staff and the business plan, regaining funder confidence, rebranding and introducing a peerformance culture.

Chief Executive

• 1998 - 2002

This was a small business start-up in a Housing Association setting. It meant producing a business plan to aqcuire homes from the Local Authority and then designing evrything from scratch; a staffing structure,recruiting to it, policies, securing office accommodation and putting funding in place. Then the challenges really began, as I lead the team to turn around what had been a failing group of estates into a thriving sustainable and attrative neighbourhood. This was a small business start-up in a Housing Association setting. It meant producing a business plan to aqcuire homes from the Local Authority and then designing evrything from scratch; a staffing structure,recruiting to it, policies, securing office accommodation and putting funding in place. Then the challenges really began, as I lead the team to turn around what had been a failing group of estates into a thriving sustainable and attrative neighbourhood.

Regional Development Manager

• 1994 - 1998

I lead two area Development Teams iN the North. Our Manchester team were actively engaged in the highly successful transformation of Hulme- a model urban regeneration scheme, whilst our Newcastle team provided a mixture of urban and rural exemplars of snaller scale placemaking. I lead two area Development Teams iN the North. Our Manchester team were actively engaged in the highly successful transformation of Hulme- a model urban regeneration scheme, whilst our Newcastle team provided a mixture of urban and rural exemplars of snaller scale placemaking.

Regional Development Manager

• 1991 - 1995

I was responsible for the delivery of much needed small scale, high quality rural houisng schemes across the Lake District, allowing families with long historical liks to communities, where they were in danger of being priced out of picture perfect villages, to accesss affordable housing. I was responsible for the delivery of much needed small scale, high quality rural houisng schemes across the Lake District, allowing families with long historical liks to communities, where they were in danger of being priced out of picture perfect villages, to accesss affordable housing.