The new chief executive of the Social Care Institute for Excellence will be Bill Kilgallon, currently chief executive of St Anne’s Shelter and Housing Action and chairman of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He will start his new job on 2 January.
Barbara Hunter
Warrington Housing Association has appointed Barbara Hunter as its first community development officer. She previously worked for Warrington council as a tenant participation officer.
Simon Farmer
Downland Housing Group has appointed Simon Farmer as assistant property services director. He joins from Family Housing, where he was reinvestment manager.
Joyce Ferguson
Joyce Ferguson is Downland Housing Group’s new assistant development director. She was the group’s development manager and improved its customer services department.
Lindsey McArthur
Lindsey McArthur has joined Sovereign Housing Association as development manager for Dorset and Hampshire. A local of that area, she has worked with south-coast councils and organisations for 11 years.
Brian Harvey
Brian Harvey, a board member of Clwyd Alyn Housing Association, has been elected as the association’s vice-chairman. He joined the board as a co-opted member in August 1999 and became a full member in September 2000.
Job of the week
Rebecca Pritchard
New Job
Director of services for housing charity Centrepoint
Job specification
To lead the staff and direct the operation of Centrepoint’s direct support and development services for young people
First housing job
Volunteer on Southampton Resettlement Project
How did you get there?
“A friend working for the organisation thought I might find housing work interesting, and suggested I volunteer.”
If you were Barbara Roche, what would you do to improve homelessness in the UK?
“Move to supply side subsidies, rather than demand side, so that housing is generally more affordable. Planning legislation needs to be used in high-cost areas to ensure more affordable homes are built. I would also end the right to buy.”
Who would you like to interview, and what would you ask?
“Jeremy Paxman – something really erudite, obscure and difficult that he couldn’t answer.”
Tell us something we don’t know
“I was once on Think of a Number with Johnny Ball.”
What did you want to be when you were a child?
“A geologist and famous fossil hunter.”
Most memorable incident at work
“Probably the day the armed response unit and dog handlers turned up en masse in response to a call we’d put in to the local police station about an incident involving a plastic knife …”
Source
Housing Today
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