Regional Advisor
1 day ago
Southampton
The role We’re looking for someone who understands how Disabled Facilities Grants and home adaptations work, and who enjoys helping services improve what they do. You’ll support councils, housing associations and other partners to deliver better, faster and more person-focused adaptations. Your work will include advising commissioners, supporting service managers, sharing good practice, delivering training, and helping services make practical improvements on the ground. You’ll also help us share learning nationally by developing guides for our website and writing blogs that highlight real examples of what works. This is a hands-on role. One day you might be helping a council rethink their DFG workflow. The next you could be delivering a training session, running a Quality Mark inspection, presenting at an event, or writing a guide that helps services across England. If you like solving real problems and supporting others to do better, you’ll enjoy this work. What success looks like • Local services deliver quicker, simpler and more consistent adaptations, • Plans for DFGs link well with health, housing and care priorities, • Clear examples of good practice are shared through guides, blogs and events, • Training is practical, useful and well received, • Quality Mark visits help services understand what to improve, • supportive and collaborative, with a focus on helping services improve, • confident speaking with a range of professionals, including commissioners, • able to explain ideas in a clear, practical way, • organised, with good attention to detail, • working with DFGs, home adaptations, housing or social care, • leading service improvements or managing change, • delivering training or support to professionals, • writing blogs, guides or how-to content, • remote-first working, with access to our Manchester office when needed, • we are employee-owned, so staff have a real stake in how the business runs, • potential for annual profit-share bonuses as part of our Employee Ownership Trust, • a friendly team that supports each other and values honest conversations We help local services through advice, training, research, networks, and the Quality Mark programme. We are a small team with a big reach. If you want work that makes a real difference and gives you space to grow, we’d love to hear from you. For this post we need someone who can readily visit local authorities in London. Experience of working with housing associations would be a bonus. Salary up to £41,000. Full Time. Remote Working.