Accreditations

Investors in People Health & Wellbeing Silver Award

Wythenshawe Community Housing Group is proud to be accredited with the Investors in People Silver Health & Wellbeing Award.

This recognises us as being a high performing organisation which puts employees’ physical wellbeing, psychological wellbeing and social wellbeing at the heart of everything we do.

Our wellbeing practices are embedded in the organisation, with managers taking the lead on creating a culture of a healthy, supportive, friendly and inclusive place to work; and where colleagues are empowered to make decisions and to act on them.

Top Employers Institute

Wythenshawe Community Housing Group has been officially recognised by the Top Employers Institute for three years running as a Top Employer UK, for excellence in employee conditions.

Organisations certified as Top Employers dedicate themselves to providing the very best working environment for employees through their progressive ‘people-first’ HR practices.

This global certification programme was established more than 25 years ago and has certified and recognised more than 1500 Top.

Employers in 120 countries across five continents, positively impacting over 6,000 000 employees globally.

Disability Confident Employer

Wythenshawe Community Housing Group is committed to appreciating and celebrating diversity and in particular we support the employment of disabled people, both in recruitment and in the support of employees who become disabled whilst in the employment of the Group.

We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer recognising the talents disabled people can bring to the workplace. We continue to challenge attitudes towards disability, increase understanding and remove barriers, ensuring that disabled people have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.

The Real Living Wage

Wythenshawe Community Housing Group is one of several organisations in the Housing sector nationally to become an accredited Living Wage Employer, which will see their apprentices paid the living wage.The announcement will mean no employee at WCHG, will be paid less than £9.90 per hour – the rate independent experts calculate is the amount required to cope with the cost-of-living.

The Living Wage is an hourly rate set independently and updated annually, based on the cost living in the UK. The Living Wage campaign has been running for ten years and has lifted over 45,000 people out of poverty. www.livingwage.org.uk

tpas membership

Like us, tpas they are dedicated to improving tenant engagement standards. They promote, support and champion tenant involvement and empowerment in social housing across England. Their membership is made up of tenants and landlord organisations, covering 3 million homes. www.tpas.org.uk