Location: Haywards Health, Burns House or Leatherhead, Carlton House – covering the South region
Salary: £49,178 to £57,849 per annum
Hours: 36 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
As an Available Homes Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring our homes are let efficiently, fairly, and to residents who can sustain successful tenancies. You’ll lead a high-performing regional team, driving operational excellence to reduce rent loss, improve turnaround times, and enhance the customer experience.
This is a key leadership role where you’ll work collaboratively across Clarion and with external partners to make sure every home we let contributes to Clarion’s long-term success and community impact.
What You’ll Be Doing
Leadership & Performance
- Lead, inspire and support a dispersed regional team to deliver excellent performance and meet key targets.
- Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Use performance data and insight to identify and address any delays in the lettings process.
- Drive behavioral and cultural change to improve efficiency and customer outcomes.
Stakeholder & Partnership Management
- Act as the main regional contact for local authorities and other housing partners.
- Negotiate and manage nomination agreements to ensure efficient allocations and sustainable tenancies.
- Build strong internal relationships with Maintenance, Housing, and Development teams to ensure new homes are ready to let on time.
- Influence and hold partners to account for delivery, ensuring joint ownership of performance outcomes.
Strategic Delivery
- Collaborate with other Available Homes Managers to deliver a consistent, high-quality service across all regions.
- Contribute to policy and process reviews to drive improvements and efficiency.
- Ensure all activity complies with regulatory, statutory, and Clarion standards.
What You’ll Need
- Proven experience leading and motivating dispersed teams in a performance-driven environment.
- A strong track record of improving operational efficiency and achieving measurable outcomes.
- Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills — confident when managing senior stakeholders.
- Analytical and solutions-focused, with the ability to translate insight into action.
Who You Are
You’re a confident, resilient leader with a strong customer focus and a passion for delivering results. You thrive on challenge, inspire others to perform at their best, and can balance strategic priorities with operational demands. Above all, you care about creating homes and communities where people can truly thrive.
What We Offer
In return, we offer:
- Competitive salary and generous annual leave
- Flexible hybrid working arrangements
- Excellent pension and wellbeing benefits
- Opportunities for professional development and career progression
- The chance to make a genuine impact in people’s lives every day
Here at Clarion we’re dedicated to rewarding hard work and commitment, and providing benefits that support you and your lifestyle - dive in and find out more here
Join Us
If you’re ready to lead a team making a real difference across the South region — ensuring our homes are let efficiently, sustainably, and with care — we’d love to hear from you.
Apply today and help shape the future of housing with Clarion.
Please review the full role profile before HERE
Closing Date: Tuesday 21st October 2025 at midnight.
Applicants must be able to travel across the region as required.
This post is subject to Basic Criminal Record Check Clearance.
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