Job Introduction
Are you looking for a career that makes a real difference? A role with Achieve together might be the perfect opportunity for a long-lasting, rewarding career in the social care sector.
We are looking for team members who are passionate about supporting people, helping our Operations teams deliver excellent care and support, and celebrating achievements.
Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Property & Portfolio Director to join our community hub team. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in supporting the organisation's core operations and ensuring the efficient and effective delivery of services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Development and delivery of the organisational property and estates strategy, aligned with long-term delivery models and growth.
- Oversight of all property aspects relating to acquisitions, refurbishments, improvements, expansions and new developments.
- Effective asset management, ensuring compliant, cost-effective and high-quality solutions to existing portfolio requirements, aligned to CQC/CIW requirements.
- Accountability for ensuring every property meets statutory, contractual and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Oversight of relationships with landlords, developers, architects, surveyors, housing providers, FM providers, and contractors.
- Leading and developing the property, facilities management, procurement, housing and maintenance teams, fostering a high-performance, customer-focused culture.
- Accountability for the management and oversight of the organisation’s fleet.
Requirements:
- Significant senior leadership experience managing large, complex, multi-site property portfolios.
- Extensive experience within adult social care, healthcare, housing or a similarly regulated sector.
- Strong knowledge and understanding of CQC/ CIW property-related requirements, fire safety, building compliance and health & safety frameworks.
- Proven track record of leading large-scale refurbishment or development projects.
- Commercial acumen, including negotiation of leases, housing agreements, property transactions, and asset optimisation.
- Ability to translate property strategy into operational reality across a large, multi-site organisation.
- Experience with sustainability, net-zero, or energy efficiency strategies.
- Professional accreditation (for example, RICS, IWFM).
Benefits:
At Achieve together we offer a range of exciting benefits, such as:
- Career progression and training opportunities
- Employee discount schemes across a range of retailers and services,
- Stream- a financial health app that gives you the ability to receive optional pay advances
- Life Assurance
For all our amazing benefits please visit here: Rewards and Benefits - Achieve together
Apply Now!
Passion for positively shaping lives is just as important to us as your experience. Building on your existing knowledge we will give you all the training and support that you need. You just need an appetite for learning and a real desire to make a difference to peoples’ lives. So, if you want to start, or continue your career journey in care with us, we want to hear from you!
We regularly review our job adverts to ensure they reflect current hiring needs. In some cases, adverts may close earlier than the stated deadline if we receive sufficient applications or the role is filled. Conversely, some adverts may remain open beyond the original closing date until the position is successfully filled. This approach helps us attract the best talent while maintaining flexibility in our recruitment process.
To ensure fair consideration and timely progression, internal applicants should submit their applications no later than the end of the first week after the role is advertised. Applications received after this point may not be guaranteed review.
