Homes for Haringey and Ascham Homes

Head of People

Up to £70,000 for an exceptional candidate

Are you passionate about people? Do you have strategic leadership skills that can help us drive our businesses forward? We need a dynamic and forward thinking Head of People Management to embed our People Strategies and support our growth plans.

This is a unique opportunity to provide high level services for two major ALMOs in London. Ascham Homes and Homes for Haringey will employ the successful candidate on a joint contract of employment. Together the two organisations have more than 900 staff and manage over 33,000 homes across Greater London.

We would love to hear from you if you have:

A significant track record in HR at a senior level;

Experience of building effective working relationships with internal customers and external stakeholders;

Lead organisational and cultural change, including managing TUPE transfers;

Commercial acumen and business flair that can help us grow our businesses.

For an informal discussion, please contact Clare Roberts of Campbell Tickell on 07801 579 964, or .

How to apply

Full details of the application process can be found in the recruitment pack. Please download and review the recruitment pack and associated documents below:

the Recruitment pack (.pdf file)
The Compliance / equal opportunities form (.doc file, 130 KB)
Homes for Haringey Annual report 2010-2011 (.pdf file)
Homes for Haringey Home Zone news December 2011 (.pdf file)
Ascham Homes Annual report - March 2011 (.pdf file)
Ascham Homes Resident news - autumn 2011 (.pdf file).

Send an up to date CV and supporting statement, detailing how you meet the criteria for this role using the person specification, along with your completed compliance / equality and diversity form.

We advise that your supporting statement and your CV are no longer than 3 pages each. Your CV must contain dates worked and a brief description of your key responsibilities for each role including consultancy / project work.

If you require a CV template, you can download one using this link (.doc file, 50 KB).

Once complete, please send your application in MS Word format by email to or by post to:

Campbell Tickell Recruitment
Ground Floor,
Olympic Office Centre,
8 Fulton Road
Wembley
Middlesex HA9 0NU

Due to postal unreliability we recommend you email your application to us wherever possible to avoid disappointment. Applications must be received by 12 noon on the closing date.

It is your responsibility to ensure that we have received your application. If you do not receive confirmation of receipt of your application from us within 24 hours of sending, please call 020 3434 0990 to ensure it has arrived. You should also ensure that you use a secure email address from which to send your application, as our system will filter out emails if it believes them to have been sent from unsecured sites that are often used to send spam emails. In order to avoid last-minute IT issues, we also ask that you allow yourself ample time to submit your application in advance of the deadline.

Key dates

Closing date: Monday 6 February 2012 - 12 noon.
First interview: Friday 24 February 2012.
Second interview: Tuesday 13 March 2012.

Equal opportunities

Homes for Haringey and Ascham Homes welcome applications from people with disabilities. We are equal opportunities employers.