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Best Practice Scheme Launch. Stormont Hotel, Belfast 24 January 2008. Jean Fulton Group Chief Executive. Workshop Overview. Jean Fulton - Group Chief Executive About BIH BIH & Quality Best Practice Alan Rea – Director of Housing Customer Consultation
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Best Practice Scheme Launch Stormont Hotel, Belfast 24 January 2008
Workshop Overview • Jean Fulton - Group Chief Executive • About BIH • BIH & Quality • Best Practice • Alan Rea – Director of Housing • Customer Consultation • Siobhan Mullan – Performance & Standards Manager • Staff Consultation • Customer Focus
About BIH • Registered Housing Association (HA) • Established in 1976 • Voluntary Board – 15 members • Currently manage and maintain approximately 4400 properties – largest housing association in NI • Staff –127 full time posts
BIH & Quality We believe it is important to seek recognition for our achievements and success
BIH & Quality Commitment to delivering quality services • Charter Mark • (Customers) Clients Charter (Development) • EFQM • (Organisation) Best Value Continuous Improvement Benchmarking Investors in People (Staff) ISO 9001:2000 (Processes)
Best Practice BIH has been recognised for Best Practice in: • Consultation • Consulting with customers • Consulting with staff • Customer focus
Alan ReaDirector of Housing Consulting Customers
Consulting with Customers We recognise that customer involvement is vital to delivering responsive, efficient and effective services
Tenant Participation Strategy BIH Tenant Participation Strategy (2006) aims to encourage all tenants to participate in: • Management of their homes • Design, improvement & monitoring of BIH services • Running of the organisation at Board & Committee level
High level: Board of Management & Committees Tenants Associations Community Groups Tenants Forum Tenant Participation StrategyBIH offers Choice in level of involvement offered:
Tenant Participation StrategyBIH offers Choice in level of involvement: • Standard: • Surveys • Focus Groups • One to one interviews • Scheme surgeries • Local consultation • Tenants’ Tattler Medium: • Tenant Voices • Mystery Shopping • Tenant Consultation Database • Repairs & Maintenance • Area Meetings • Service Improvement Teams • Tenants Conference
Commitment of Resources • Budget • Staff • Training • Target specific groups • Promotion • Tenant Participation Compact
Monitoring of Strategy • Management, staff, tenants to ensure relevance • Key Performance Indicators in place to aid monitoring of strategy • Formal review 2009
Consulting Staff Siobhan Mullan Performance & Standards Manager
Staff Consultation We aim to consult with staff across the organisation at all levels
Customer Focused Service We are extremely proud of the service we deliver to our customers
Customer Service Standards • Meaningful to customers • Relevant to the services we provide • Advise customers of the level of service they can expect to receive • Invites customers to help us deliver an effective service • Published annually • Alternative formats available / offered
Review & Monitoring • Annual review by: • Tenants’ Forum • Continuous Improvement Team • Performance against standards monitored & reported annually
Reporting Performance • Annual performance report to tenants: • Development • Repairs • Adaptations • Equality Duty • Charges • Complaints • Tenant Participation • Charter Mark Best Practice recognition
Jean Fulton Group Chief Executive
Effects • Positive effect on • whole organisation • staff involved • tenants involved • Ensures Customer Services are: • relevant • up to date • meaningful
Satisfaction Levels • Tenant satisfaction levels with BIH: 82% 2006 89% 2007 (76% 2007 National benchmark) • Staff satisfaction levels with BIH: 64% 2005 80% 2007 (47% 2007 National benchmark)
Additional Measures • Use of in-house skills & expertise ensuring value for money • Use of IT – Staff Attitude Survey completed online • Appreciation to participants demonstrated by 1 hour flexi-time credit • Provision of affordable survey services to other housing associations which do not have resources in-house
Thank you Questions?