Great place to work
At Stonewater, we recognise that our team is at the heart of delivering quality homes and services.
We’re a housing association that embraces change, is open to new ideas, and encourages you to bring your individuality and skills. We know that our success is down to our people, so we aim to provide an exceptional place to work for our colleagues, making sure they are engaged, developed and equipped to deliver the customer-centric services we are so proud of.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and we’re working towards the accreditation of Disability Confident Leader. We’re also proud to have achieved the accreditation of Exemplary Employer for the Investing in the Ethnicity Maturity Matrix, and to have been named one of the Top 10 Outstanding Organisations in the UK Ethnicity Awards. We are also committed to being a Menopause Friendly employer, working towards Menopause Friendly accreditation.
With #DiscoverStonewater, we’re committed to facilitating everyone’s journey with us, and provide opportunities including continuous improvement and career progression at all levels, staying connected through technology, equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives, family-friendly and hybrid flexible working environments.
Colleagues also benefit from opportunities to study for formal qualifications, secondment opportunities, job shadowing, coaching and our Step Up To Manager programme, as well as our myOwnHome shared ownership initiative helping colleges get a home of their own.
Recent awards include a bronze award in the ‘Best use of content’ category at the ICE awards for our internal all-staff event. We were also highly commended in the Housing Digital Innovation awards for our innovative approach to culture and wellbeing.
Our sustainability work continues to be recognised in major awards, including a Sussex Heritage Trust award for our Safford Park, “Parker Pen factory” regeneration and two awards at this year’s Unlock Net Zero Awards.
Learn about all our latest awards.