Langley House Trust

Langley House Trust is an innovative Christian charity that provides specialist housing, programmes and support services in the community, and targeted advice in prisons, for offenders seeking to live crime-free. Established for over 60 years, Langley House Trust Group is today a dynamic £17m organisation, working with around 686 clients in 2020-21, and it has earned an enviable reputation for reducing reoffending with proven results. The Group is a recent winner of 24Housing’s Care & Support Provider of the Year Award, and we were recently shortlisted for the 2021 Charity Times Charity of the Year (£10m+).

Part of the Langley House Trust Group, Kainos Community runs Challenge to Change, a pioneering prison wing community and post-release mentoring programme. Clean Sheet is another important part of the organisation, helping people with convictions to find sustainable employment after prison. Regardless of a person’s history, the Group’s passion is to change every life for the better. This passion to see lives changed for the better is what unites Langley House Trust staff and volunteers.

This is a critical time in the Trust’s history as it continues to grow and adapt, as well as help shape and respond to a ‘new normal’ for housing, care and support services in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It is against this background of growth and change that we are making some changes to the structure of our leadership team and we are creating two new roles; a Director of People and a Finance & Business Services Director. Both will report directly to, and work closely with, our CEO, Tracy Wild – and they will play a critical role in shaping our culture, and delivering our plans for the future.

The Director of People will develop and create a people strategy, ensuring that the values, mission and vision and the Christ centred culture of the Group are always visible. This Director will ensure best practice policies, processes and positive change theories are applied proactively and consistently.
Candidates will be senior leaders with significant experience designing and implementing people strategies and transformational change.

Langley House Trust is a Christian organisation. Our Christian ethos motivates us to help support and care for those who have offended or are at risk of offending. We support and care for clients with any or no faith. These senior roles have an occupational requirement which requires the role holder to have a genuine Christian belief which will enable them to carry out key duties of the roles. The Occupational Requirement for a professing and practising Christian is justified under the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9, Part 1, clause 3.

Saxton Bampfylde Ltd is acting as an employment agency advisor to Langley House Trust Group on these appointments. For further information about the roles, including details about how to apply, please visit www.saxbam.com/appointments using reference FLHTE. Alternatively, telephone +44 (0)20 7227 0880 (during office hours). Applications should be received by noon on Friday 8 October 2021.