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Social Housing | Trades & Maintenance | Infrastructure | Construction | Facilities Management

TRADES & MAINTENANCE

Our dedicated social housing teams work with housing associations, local authorities, contractors, developers, landlords, consultancies and service providers to develop, build, refurbish and maintain social, affordable, private and student housing.

As an experienced social housing recruitment specialist, we provide strategic, commercial, operational, support, financial and development related recruitment at all levels.

We work on a contract, temporary or permanent basis across all areas of social housing including:

  • Maintenance: We offer commercial, operational, bid and business development solutions, as well as covering the health & safety sector. From Planned and Reactive, to Disrepair and Void, we encompass all types of maintenance.
  • Trades: Our blue-collar team supplies skilled trades and operatives, qualified gas engineers and managers and general labour.
  • Support & Customer Services: In our support sector, we cover both front of house and back-office staff for housing and construction organisations.

KEY ROLES:

  • Multi Trader
  • Kitchen Fitter
  • Bathroom Fitter
  • Roofer
  • Painter & Decorater
  • Floor Layer
  • Carpenter
  • Plumber
  • Plasterer
  • Electrician

OUR SERVICES:

Utilising our vast candidate network, sector-specific relationships and industry experience, we conduct detailed market research, confidential approaches, and employ detailed candidate shortlisting methods.

We comprehensively assess suitability prior to introduction to get it right first time, ensuring that only suitably qualified and experienced candidates are put forward. To achieve this, we focus on understanding organisational culture, priorities, and values, matching this with candidate competence, experience, and principles.

With an extensive database of 105,000+ registered candidates supported by the ability to advertise vacancies across leading job boards, we can quickly and effectively respond to temporary recruitment requirements.

Employing a thorough screening and onboarding process combining skills matrices, interviewing, referencing, and compliance checks, we’ll find you the perfect worker; ready to go from day one.

Designed to efficiently onboard workers, we offer a temp-to-perm solution over a pre-agreed period. Our flexible approach provides the opportunity to assess candidate’s performance and cultural fit over time before offering a permanent contract.

Working in partnership with your recruitment, operational and HR teams, our volume campaign recruitment solutions are designed for organisations looking to recruit high volumes of staff within a defined time period.

Our extensive track record includes successfully delivering volume recruitment campaigns to support contract mobilisations, in-sourcing, and targeted recruitment drives.

Employing a structured recruitment process and offering administrative support throughout, we work in partnership with you. Our teams can manage any, or all, of the following; job descriptions, advertising, candidate selection, pre-screening, referencing, eligibility checks, onboarding, workload scheduling, and post-placement support.

We will work at scale to deliver the right people in the right jobs in the right locations to meet your deadlines.

We have successfully delivered a wide range of contract mobilisation projects that have seen us provide a genuine end-to-end volume recruitment solution. This includes targeting specific skills shortages, to resourcing entire new divisions.

Taking time to understand your specific requirements, we will design a bespoke campaign to ensure contracts are resourced from day one.

Alliance MSP

In response to our clients’ temporary and permanent recruitment demands, we have developed a bespoke partnership model; Alliance MSP.

Our bespoke solution provides an efficient and effective service, supported by an account management team, measured via a suite of on-demand management information.