Welcome to Bernicia
We are looking for a Director, Finance
Salary: £106,087
Closing date: Friday 4th October
About Us
For over 60 years Bernicia has been a highly respected organisation providing quality affordable homes and delivering a range of exceptional services to people across the North East region.
We own and manage over 14,000 properties and have a continuous pipeline of new homes in development, across a range of property types and tenures. We provide housing and services for single people, couples, families and older residents and for people who need a bit more support to enjoy the independence of living in their own home.
Our commercial subsidiary, Kingston, is a profit for purpose company. It is the premier leasehold block and open spaces management company in the region and through its estate agency, Living Spaces, it provides sales and private rented services to a wide range of customers.
Our charitable Bernicia Foundation provides additional support to strengthen communities and help equip people for life and to realise their true potential.
In April 2022 we launched our new four-year Housing People, Helping People corporate strategy, which will see us invest over £210m in services, in new and existing homes, in neighbourhoods, in communities and in the North East region.
Strategic objectives
Our Housing People, Helping People corporate strategy is framed around four strategic objectives which will provide the focus for our work up to 2026:
Listening and delivering exceptional services
Bernicia has high levels of customer satisfaction and maintain this through the promotion of a customer-centric culture.
Demonstrating organisational effectiveness
we have strong leadership and corporate governance, are financially robust and aim to be an inclusive organisation. Colleagues are a major factor in our success, delivering services and living our values.
Investing in Homes and Neighbourhoods
we want our customers to be proud to call a Bernicia property their home.
Working collaboratively to support the North-East Region
Bernicia is more than just a landlord – we will deliver maximum value for our tenants, customers, wider communities, partners, stakeholders and the North-East.
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This has come at a really good time just when we needed it. The house is perfect with two bedrooms – we wouldn’t have been able to afford it without the shared ownership scheme
Mission, Vision, Values
Vision (Our Overall Impact)
Housing people. Helping people: We believe a good home makes lots of other things possible, so we provide great homes and services that do just that. We are “housing people” – professional and passionate about what we do.
Mission (Our purpose)
Investing in homes, services and people to make a positive impact on the communities of the North-East: We will invest to provide quality new and existing homes, in the provision of services that respond to our tenants, customers and marketplace requirements, and in our people and in the communities within which we operate. We will invest in the North-East.
The Bernicia Way:
We value our tenants and customers, work together, respect each other and have the highest levels of accountability and integrity, we deliver what we say we will do, something our tenants, customers and partners can rely upon.