'Best Companies to Work For' best performance by CDHT
The biggest and most comprehensive survey of employee opinion has ranked Chester & District Housing Trust (CDHT) as 27th of the Best Companies to Work For in the UK in The Sunday Times Top 100 listing. CDHT appears for the fourth year running and with its highest ranking ever.
The research carried out by Best Companies Ltd., and in its tenth year, involved surveys from over 291,000 employees across the country with 1,165 entries from the crème of British business. CDHT has also attained two star ‘outstanding’ status amongst 158 of these organisations. It was also ranked 15th for leadership, 6th for the most inspiring leader, 20th on Giving Something back to the community and 23rd on employee engagement with ‘My Company’.
Traditionally housing providers do well in the listing, this year was no exception. CDHT came 5th nationally and were the top organisation in Cheshire across all sectors. Last year CDHT was ranked 47th in the UK.
John Denny, CDHT Chief Executive, said:
“Being listed in The ‘Sunday Times Top 100 Companies’ alongside well known high street and boardroom names is a real achievement. To be in the list for four years running and in the Top 30 is a cracking result we can all be really proud of. CDHT’s vision is to create opportunity. We place the customer at the heart of the business, listen to our communities and our colleagues and provide training opportunities for all. We’ve worked hard to make CDHT a great organisation to work with and this award recognises this.” He added; “Congratulations too, to all the housing providers listed who are clearly committed to employee engagement. Housing features highly in the rankings and the sector should be very proud of this.”
Jonathan Austin, founder & CEO of Best Companies Ltd. said;
“Our role is to set a rigorous benchmark so that organisations can become even better employers. I would like to congratulate Chester & District Housing Trust on its outstanding achievement. I’m delighted. The Trust should be truly proud that colleagues recognise the organisation as a ‘Best Company to Work For’.”
Colleagues were nominated to attend the awards dinner in London by their work colleagues across the organisation. Accompanying John Denny and Su Bramley, Deputy Chief Executive were Kirsty Davies (Finance Assistant), Natasha Lynch (Property Advisor), Naeem Khan (IT Service Desk Coordinator), Pat Cullen (Community Safety Coordinator), Suzanne Hughes (Training & Quality Officer) Lee Jones, (Trade Maintenance Technician), Mark Gregg (Caretaker) and Karen Heritage (Business Support Assistant).
Natasha Lynch, Property Advisor at CDHT said:
“It was a fantastic night, I was really impressed with how big and important the whole event was and I’ve said to everyone I work with that if they ever get the opportunity to go to future events, they should. I enjoyed getting to know other colleagues across different departments a little bit better and felt tremendously proud to represent the Trust at such an occasion.”
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CAPTION: LtoR: Natasha Lynch, Property Advisor at CDHT, Jonathan Austin, founder & CEO of Best Companies Ltd. Su Bramley, Deputy Chief Executive of CDHT and Kirsty Davies, Finance Assistant.
Notes to editors
The Best Companies survey is designed to measure employee engagement according to eight key factors. These factors are particularly significant as they are defined through the results from the survey process, and therefore by employees themselves, as critical factors in workplace engagement.
Leadership: How employees feel about the head of the organisation, senior managers, and the organisations values and principles
My Manager: How employees feel about and communicate with their direct manager
Personal Growth: What employees feel about training and their future prospects
Wellbeing: How employees feel about stress, pressure at work, and work life balance
My Team: Employees feelings towards their immediate colleagues and how well they work together
Giving Something Back: The extent to which employees feel their organisation has a positive impact on society
My Company: The level of engagement employees have for their job and organisation
Fair Deal: How happy employees are with their pay and benefits.
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Notes to editors
Chester & District Housing Trust (CDHT) is a dynamic and enterprising organisation at the forefront of delivering positive impacts in the communities with which it works. The Trust’s homes span six communities – Blacon North; Blacon South; Chester City Area; The Rurals; Lache and Handbridge; Upton, Hoole, Newton and Plas Newton.
Committed to the best principles of social enterprise with over 14,000 local customers in 6,200 properties and 53% of its 275 colleagues living within its communities, the Trust adheres to key commitments and principles relating to people, places, partnerships and performance which underpin the Vision to ‘create opportunity’, through its mission, ‘by doing the right thing’.
The Trust is about being transparent and accountable in everything that is done and to this end is one of the first organisations nationally to have established a Residents’ Board, with full delegated powers from the Trust Board, to direct services which impact upon their lives.
The Trust has a comprehensive development programme delivering over 330 new homes including the £12million regeneration of the Treborth Road area of Chester providing new homes for rent, sale and shared ownership, as well as a village green and wildlife habitats.
CDHT also provides services on a partnership basis, to a number of other customers e.g. Telecare services, TrustWorks Maintenance Services, Housing Options advice, waiting list management and choice based lettings to neighbouring local authorities and registered social landlords.
The Trust is rated as two Star excellent by the Audit Commission, has the highest possible rating from Telecare Services Association and is also credited Investors in People and is the overall Employer of the Year For Cheshire West. It has been in the ‘Top 100 Sunday Times best companies to work for’ for the last four years.
For more details please visit www.cdht.org or request a copy of CDHT’s Corporate Plan 2009-2014.
Chester & District Housing Trust (CDHT) and Cosmopolitan Housing Group in Liverpool have consulted residents and are undergoing due diligence following proposals to merge the two registered social landlords. The merged organisation would see combined assets with a market value of more than £875 million and more than 12,500 properties across West Cheshire, Merseyside and the North West.
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