Job Title

Head of Innovation

Organisation

Plus Dane Housing

Job Description

Contract Type: Permanent

Contracted Hours: 35 (Full Time)

Who We Are

Plus Dane provides homes and services to over 30,000 people across Merseyside and Cheshire. Our aim is to tackle social inequality by enabling individuals and communities to thrive and our customer team is at the heart of what we do.

Working with our customers really does change people’s lives and if you want to make a difference Plus Dane is the place to be!

We live by our values of working together, achieving for our customers, taking ownership, and having the opportunity to learn and grow.

What we’re looking for from you to join our team as Head of Innovation:

This is a pivotal leadership role with a dual focus: delivering strategic projects and taskforces that drive organisational change and improvement, while also cultivating a culture of innovation that empowers colleagues to experiment, test, and deliver ideas that make a real difference.

As Head of Innovation you will lead our new innovation team — a place where ideas are welcomed, supported, and resourced. Whether it’s a colleague with a spark of inspiration or a team ready to trial something new, you’ll help turn ideas into impact. Innovation here means more than creativity — it’s about purposeful change that benefits our customers and colleagues alike.

This role is about encouraging ideation from all possible areas, providing transparency on how those ideas are then refined and selected for implementation and feedback in an open and honest way on the results, it’s about creating and fostering a psychologically safe culture to experiment and learn and to iterate through ideas and problems to get to the right solution.

While technology may play a part in these ideas, this isn’t a technical or digital focused role, this role is about people and how we can best support them to do their best.

As Head of Innovation you will oversee our strategic project portfolio, ensuring initiatives are aligned with our goals, resourced effectively, and delivering measurable benefits through our project management framework.

If you’re passionate about innovation with purpose, experienced in leading change, and ready to shape a culture where ideas thrive and strategy delivers, we’d love to hear from you.

Interviews are due to take place on 27 August 2025.

What You’ll Get In Return

We offer hybrid working and there will be an expectation to attend our offices in Merseyside and Cheshire when required, therefore a driving licence and access to a car, is advantageous.

You will be generously rewarded with a competitive salary and great benefits, including a cash healthcare plan, employee assistance programme and generous shopping discounts. We also have a competitive company pension scheme, where we contribute 9% and our colleagues can contribute anything from 3% upwards.

From the moment you join you have 35 days holiday plus bank holidays, including the days between Christmas and New Year. This is part of our commitment to our peoples’ wellbeing, which is recognised through our accreditation by the Wellbeing Charter and supported by an excellent management team and colleagues, including wellbeing champions and mental health first aiders.

We actively encourage personal development and there are plenty of opportunities to progress your career as you join the team that has a career path to many other parts of our organisation. We also offer ongoing training in a variety of areas including formal qualifications.

If this sounds like the place for you APPLY here- https://www.plusdane.co.uk/join-our-team/current-vacancies/

This vacancy may close early if we receive a high volume of applications.

If you need any adjustments to apply or attend an interview, please let us know.