PDW would like to welcome Jean Bray as an Associate Consultant.

Jean is highly experienced in extra care housing and sheltered housing management gained at one of the UK’s largest housing and care organisations for older people, where she directed and controlled services to over 75 sheltered schemes providing 2,400 units of accommodation, with operational budgets in excess of £2.5m.

From March 2003 to April 2004 Jean led a national project team to implement and manage the new Supporting People regime as it was introduced.

Working as an Associate Consultant since April 2004, Jeans portfolio has included project managing successful bids for funding from the DH Extra Care Grant for Bolton and Cumbria CC as well as acting as a critical friend on two other successful bids.  Other assignments have included interim management of sheltered and supported housing, the development of an older people’s housing strategy, design and development support for extra care housing  and more recently working on both supporting people and telecare tenders.

Jean is currently the joint North West regional lead for the Housing LIN.

We have just completed a comprehensive and current Development Procedure Manual for a Registered Housing Provider client.  This is the latest and best version of a manual we have produced. We are confident that this new manual is an excellent tool for development staff at all levels within developing housing organisations. We offer this manual tailored to suit any organisation in a range of formats, including an electronic format, which is very easy to navigate through the procedures and standard documentation.

We also offer a regular update and review service for all our clients.

We are happy to present an example of this manual to anyone interested.  Please ring 0870 757 0990 for further information.

Through our expanding associate network we are now delivering additional management and care policy support services for an extra care housing project in Widnes.  We are assisting with staffing structures, contract negotiations, SP advice, service charge policy and general management issues within the extra care scheme known as ‘Naughton Fields’.  This is an exciting, mixed tenure, extra care project for Halton Housing Trust.

Please contact us on 0870 757 0990 if you would like further details of the project and/or services we are offering.