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Home Group
Newcastle upon Tyne
Founded 1935
Employees 1001 - 5000
Charity-Tech
PropTech
Tech for Good
Who are Home Group
We're Home Group, a not for profit housing association, social enterprise and charity with a turnover of £430m and one of the UK's largest providers of high quality housing and integrated housing, health and social care. We're proud of the difference that we have made over the last 80+ years and we continue to work hard to support 113,000 customers in 55,000 homes across the UK. Our aim is to build homes, independence and aspirations and according to our trophy cabinet we’re pretty good at it! We're the 5th best place to work in the UK, the 4th best in the North East and the 4th best for women. We're an Investors in People Platinum award winner (one of only 3% of all organisations). Our apprenticeship programme is award winning; in 2019 we were named large employer of the year and large north east employer of the year in 2020. We're also a Stonewall top 100 employer, ranked at 40th.
Life at
Home Group
Culture overview
Competitive salaries, annual pay awards and a mutual bonus payment are some of the ways we’ll reward you. Need to be home for a delivery, the school run or to walk the dog at lunch? We're ok with that. Flexible working and special leave means you don’t miss out on important life moments. Stretch your pay further with rewards and discounts. Enjoy over 800 shopping discounts. Along with interest free loans, discounted breakdown cover and more. Also save on your day-to-day expenses such as the weekly shop, DIY projects or holidays and days out. Time off. 25 days annual leave (on top of bank holidays), rising a day a year up to 30 days. Fancy a little bit more? Then why not buy up to five extra days leave? We love to shine the spotlight on our colleagues. Our annual Home Star awards, monthly Home Heroes and e-cards give you an extra "thanks" for doing a great job. Help you build your retirement nest egg. No one wants to work forever, right? Plan for your future with our generous pension scheme. And our Life Assurance will give you and your loved one's peace of mind too. When it's time to grow your family. Enjoy financial reassurance with our enhanced maternity, adoption, parental leave and pay. When it’s time to return to work, we’ll help you ease into it. And we'll work with you to make your role as flexible as possible. We'll help you look after the pennies, so the pounds grow too. Our Financial Wellbeing support will help you manage your money even better. Save from your salary for life’s bigger spends, such as a well-deserved summer holiday. Car scheme. Fancy a brand-new set of wheels? Hit the road in style with our competitive car scheme. Volunteer your time, on our time. Finding the spare time to volunteer can be tricky with work and life commitments. Don’t worry; we’ll give you two days of paid leave each year to help those who need it most. Your wellbeing matters. To support you to be at your best, we offer a range of health and wellbeing support. Free counselling and advice, mental health first aiders, coaching and more. We’re here for you when life throws a curveball. Continuous learning. Be supported in your career with access to thousands of learning resources. Progress with our career development tools, talks, courses, and e-learning. And if you don’t have them already, we’ll help you to achieve qualifications if required for your role. Climbing the career ladder. Whether you want to move up, sideways, be the best you can be or start on a new career path, we’ll help. Our careers toolkit will unleash your potential so you can build a brilliant career with us.
Employee benefits
Childcare Vouchers
Company Car
Cycle To Work
Flexible Hours
Flexible Working
Laptop
Life Insurance
Pension
Season Ticket Loan
Wellbeing Programme
Office vibe
City Centre
Open Plan
Social Events
Location
Tech at
Home Group
Leadership
Simon Parker
Director of Information Systems and PMO
Tech overview
Home Groups tech team is wide-ranging and spans from service desk, 1st 2nd and support roles, to 3rd line resolving teams including ERP, Applications Delivery, Tech Delivery and Cyber Security teams. Our digital team have been together for a couple of years and are a social and collaborative bunch. The team include Full Stack Developers, DevOps, and a Scrum Master– working closely with our solutions architect, UX designers, product owners and testing teams. Our IT Architecture team work closely with our PMO function to help map and deliver change.
Engineering principles
Agile Process
Code Reviews
Communication and collaboration
Configuration management
Mentoring
Scrum
Test Driven Development
Company tech stack
react
nodejs
javascript
microsoft-azure
dynamics-crm
mssql
t-sql
itil
kubernetes
powerbi
sql
typescript
vmware-vsphere
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