Spectrum Housing Group is saving over £50,000 each year and improving employee engagement using MobileHR, a mobile HR system from Advanced Business Solutions. MobileHR allows Spectrum’s staff to submit expenses, holiday requests and declare business hospitality gifts via their smartphone and tablet devices, allowing the HR team to focus on more value-adding activities. Line managers…
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Aspire Group celebrates milestone with 300th apprentice
Continuing Housing Technology’s ongoing support for housing providers and IT suppliers to the housing sector who take on apprentices, we are pleased report that Aspire Group has recently taken on its 300th apprentice. Aspire Housing bought a training company in 2008 in order to help young people into work. Since then, PM Training has trebled…
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Cascade HR & payroll for Shepherd’s Bush Housing
Shepherd’s Bush Housing Group is using new HR and payroll software from Cascade to support its 290-strong workforce, including a wide variety of payroll scenarios. These include different ways of handling sick pay and additional payments for washing machine installations, overnight ‘sleep ins’ for supported housing and out of hours work for maintenance operatives. Katie…
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Success for Sentinel’s IT apprentice
Sentinel Housing has just taken on one of its apprentices as a full-time member of its IT team. Adrian Dunwell joined Sentinel’s apprenticeship scheme in September 2013 straight after leaving school in Wokingham. Adrian Dunwell said, “Originally I wanted to go to university, but I didn’t want the stress of debts and financial problems when…
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SDM adds new staff
Technology company SDM Housing has expanded its development team in Cheshire with three new members of staff. Oxford University graduate Christopher Stokes joins the company as a junior programmer after completing a Master’s Degree in Mathematics and Jessica Smith joins as part of SDM’s apprenticeship scheme. On a three month secondment from Australia, Geoff Bomford…
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Wolverhampton Homes bags top award for its apprenticeships
Wolverhampton Homes has won a national award for its apprenticeship programme, beating off competition from nationally and internationally acclaimed companies such as Nokia, Vodafone and Asda. The housing provider’s Learning, Employment and Achievement Programme, dubbed ‘LEAP’, was named overall winner of the national Peer Awards for Excellence at a ceremony in London at the end…
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