Leazes Homes Board Member
Your Homes Newcastle
Could you be our new board member? This is a great opportunity to join a proactive Board that puts customers first.
Purpose of the role:
Leazes Homes Board members are equally and jointly responsible for:
- Strategic leadership, oversight and delivery of services to the supported housing stock managed by the Your Homes Newcastle (YHN) Group, including properties owned by Leazes Homes and properties owned by Newcastle City Council that are managed by YHN
- Developing and implementing the supported housing vision for the YHN Group
- Ensuring Leazes Homes’ continuing financial viability and long-term sustainability,
- Safeguarding the interests of Leazes Homes parent organisation YHN and its tenants, residents and the public
- Representing the interests of Leazes Homes tenants and residents
Key responsibilities:
Working alongside other Board members with guidance from the Chair, all Board members play a key role in leading the organisation and the key responsibilities are:
Strategy and Performance
- Ensuring Leazes Homes’ purpose, objectives and values reflect the organisations’ obligations to all stakeholders, and ensuring sufficient resources are available to meet those objectives.
- Agreeing Leazes Homes’ annual budget and annual Delivery Plan, delegating the responsibility for implementation to officers.
- Ensuring the organisation has an effective financial and performance management framework that monitors, scrutinises and reviews outcomes against Group strategic objectives.
- Approval of annual accounts
- Ensuring the organisation meets all its’ regulatory obligation as a Registered Provider of Social Housing
- Holding YHN Group Directors to account for the performance of the organisation.
Risk
- Ensuring the organisation has a robust risk management framework which identifies, assesses and manages strategic risks and that it is monitored and reviewed periodically for continuous improvement.
- Ensuring the organisation has a framework of delegation and systems of internal control, which is reviewed annually.
Governance -
- Ensuring that structures and mechanisms are in place so that Leazes Homes complies with all applicable statutory and regulatory obligations, including Equality & Diversity and Health & Safety.
- Ensuring that Leazes Homes’ affairs are conducted lawfully and comply with its Rules and good governance, in accordance with the National Housing Federation Code of Governance.
- Adhere to the Code of Conduct for Board members.
Key skills, knowledge and experience:
We are seeking to recruit new Board Members with experience in the following areas:
- Financial management / risk and audit
- Strategic Asset Management / Property Maintenance / Health and Safety Collectively, the members of the Board should have sufficient skills and experience to provide effective leadership for the organisation.
As well as the skills you bring from your specific area of expertise, Board members are also expected to contribute to the effective delivery of these responsibilities and demonstrate competency in the skills specified below:
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team
- Ability to understand, interpret and analyse complex information, including financial
- Effective communication skills
- Ability to challenge constructively
- Ability to think strategically in providing direction whilst considering the long-term implications of decisions All Leazes Homes Board members are expected to be flexible within the scope of the role.
If you are someone who wants to make a difference to our customers lives and play a key role in the future of Leazes Homes, then visit https://www.leazeshomes.org.uk/2022/05/10/join-our-board/ for more information.
