About Contour Housing Group

Contour Housing Group is one of the North West's largest registered social landlords. With 20,000 properties under its ownership and management across 27 local authorities Contour Housing Group is enjoying a growing reputation as a company to do business with.

The Group operates a number of subsidiaries developed through stock transfers and providing local services to neighbourhoods.

In addition, Contour Property Services is a managing agency for private landlords and developments. Through its well established expertise it is now the preferred managing agent for all of Wimpey's private leasehold management schemes.

The Group provide a wide range of housing solutions and has established a reputation as a provider of high quality accommodation and support services for older people and vulnerable groups. It now works with 17 Local Authorities and is a preferred partner for the development of new supported housing by the City of Salford.

Contour Housing Group's Mission is to: "Create great places to live"

We see we can do this through our three main objectives;

1. Providing Decent homes and Decent Neighbourhoods
2. Providing Excellent and Efficient Services
3. By Doing More for More People

Our Values;

1. Service Excellence - Striving to deliver excellent value for money services for all our customers and colleagues.
2. Valuing One Another - Treating everybody with respect, fairness and honesty, appreciating diverse needs and expectations.
3. Trust - Earning trust by being open, honest and doing what we say we will do.
4. Inspiring People - Creating an environment that encourages and empowers ambition, aspiration and achievment.
5. Excellence in Business - Being professional, commercially aware and responsible in all that we do.

Press Release

Contour Housing Group, one of the North West's largest social landlords, has appointed Hays Social Housing, the UK's leading recruitment company, its official recruitment partner. Contour has enlisted the help of Hays to recruit both temporary and permanent staff for the next two years.

The partnership means that expert Hays Social Housing consultants will be responsible for all recruitment at Contour, with a large proportion of the recruitment focusing on housing management roles. Other areas that will be covered off include anything from asset management and maintenance professionals, trades & labour staff, corporate services staff, and IT and HR professionals.

Matt Lewis, Business Director at Hays Social Housing says: "We will be working closely with Contour in order to meet their needs for a social housing staff over the next two years. These professionals undertake a specialist job and it helps that we understand the market, have a comprehensive knowledge of the employer and know how to track down the best people for the job. Since the partnership was made official last week, we have already recruited an area housing manager, housing assistant and a housing administrator."

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