Housing repairs partnership creates jobs

A COST sharing vehicle created by Mosscare Housing Group and St Vincent’s Housing Association, both based in Manchester, has created 26 new jobs.

Mosscare’s repairs service already employs 47 people and provides the repairs and maintenance service for their 4,791 homes.

This partnership will see the existing service extended to cover St Vincent’s 3,500 homes across the North West.

Some 841 applications were received for the positions and 18 people attended a pre-employment course provided by Skills Company.

Mosscare chief executive Rob Ferguson said: “The strong partnership between Mosscare and St Vincent’s gives both organisations the opportunity to create local jobs, improve quality of services for residents and achieve value for money through sharing costs.”

St Vincent’s chief executive Charlie Norman said: “I’m very happy that we are joining forces with Mosscare to deliver an important service with an organisation who have similar values and a clear focus on its customers.”  

The service will launch on October 5.