Our mission is to create and sustain communities where people can thrive and we can only do this by having a great team of colleagues who live our values every day.

As one of the West Midlands’ longest serving, independent charitable trusts, we have a whole range of different job roles which reflect the diversity of what we do!

Our work covers everything from estate management and social housing to community development, heritage, and commercial activities. We also have a range of corporate services that are dedicated to building a strong and resilient organisation.

If you’re looking to develop your career at an organisation that is truly values-led and rooted in its neighbourhoods, browse our job opportunities today.

What colleagues say about recruitment and onboarding

  • ‘Welcoming work environment. Interview process helped me to feel less anxious.’
  • ‘It felt like a good place to work and it really supports development.’
  • ‘I feel the values are considered to be very importance in the hiring process.’
  • ‘During my induction everything went very smoothly, and I felt very included.’
  • Everything was done really well and has set me on my way to progressing, both personally and within the team.’

Thriving at Bournville Village Trust

We recruit people who really believe in our values of fairness, partnership, quality, innovation and integrity and we’re are committed to supporting people to thrive, whatever their role.  

Click on the photos below to read the journeys of some colleagues.

I began my career with Bournville Village Trust (BVT) in 2012 and from early on, I knew I wanted to work in the social housing sector. I began as a Resident Involvement Assistant, a role I held for just over two years. This gave me a great insight into housing and allowed me to build strong relationships with residents and colleagues. Keen to develop further, I successfully applied for the role of Anti-Social Behaviour Assistant within the Housing department. A couple of years later, I progressed into the role of Welfare Reform Officer. I remained in this role for around 10 years. During this period, I also had two children and returned to work part-time (three days a week) in 2020. Now both of my daughters are in school full-time, I felt the time was right to take the next step in my career. In September 2024, I moved into the role of Neighbourhood Coordinator - a position I had always been interested in. I’m now enjoying bringing my skills and experience to this new challenge and continuing to support residents in a meaningful way.
Stephanie Weaver – Neighbourhood Co-ordinator
I started working for Bournville Village Trust (BVT) in 2019. Before that, I had been contracting for BVT for nine years. BVT was always a company I wanted to work for and when I saw a job for an Electrician come up, I had to apply for it. After five years working carrying out all aspects of electrical work, an opportunity came up to become the Electrical Services Manager. I have always believed that I am a good leader and team player, two qualities I think are important for a manager. When I got the job I had to adjust to office life, as I’ve always been a working foreman, but I have really enjoyed it so far.
Liam Bustin – Electrical Services Manager
I was contacted through an agency who offered me an opportunity to work at Bournville Village Trust (BVT) and I started my BVT journey in 2017. I currently work in the Customer Service team but in October 2023, I started a secondment as a Finance Officer, covering for a colleague on maternity leave. As a Finance Officer I learnt many new skills, including processing invoices, raising cheques, doing payment requests and payment runs. Although the role was only for nine months, I thoroughly enjoyed my time in the Finance team.
Richard Thomas – Customer Services Advisor

Charitable trust

If you want to develop your career, take the next step up the ladder or use your experience to grow, we are the organisation for you.

We recruit people who really believe in our values and are committed to supporting people to thrive, whatever their role.  We have a 10-year corporate plan that sets out our values, aims and exciting future. You can read the plan here.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive team of colleagues and welcome people from every walk of life, at any stage of their career journey.

Benefits and rewards

We’re all about personal and professional development, as well as work-life balance which is a key part of our culture.

We’re also a friendly and welcoming bunch. We offer opportunities for colleagues to get together to mark things that are important to them or that reflect the diversity of our neighbourhoods.

This has included marking Eid, Pride Month, Neurodiversity Awareness, Black History Month and many health and wellbeing activities like staff picnics, men’s health days, advice on nutrition, menopause and breast cancer awareness.  

We offer a comprehensive reward and benefits package, which includes:

  • Basic 32 days holiday (29 days basic, three days at Christmas) plus eight statutory days.
  • Competitive employer contributed pension scheme.
  • Healthcare scheme offering cashback towards medical and wellbeing services.
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave.
  • Flexi time working, where job roles allow.
  • Support towards learning and development.
  • Savings on leisure activities, discounted products and services.
  • Cycle to work scheme.
  • Electric car benefits scheme.

Equality and diversity

We’re committed to creating an environment where all colleagues can be their authentic selves, feel valued and respected, and be successful in whatever they choose to do.

We believe it takes all sorts of people to make a thriving workplace where the freedom to be creative and innovative is fundamental to our continued success.

Whilst we still have more work to do to improve the diversity of our organisation, we’ve worked closely with staff to create an environment where wellbeing and personal development is a key part of our business objectives.

Our colleagues matter to us, that’s why we don’t pay lip service to an annual performance review, instead, we have meaningful conversations around our values focused on personal growth.

Equality to us is about treating people as individuals and that’s why fairness and integrity are two of our values. We strive to prevent discrimination in our recruitment processes, the services we provide to customers and in our working environments.

We believe an inclusive workplace is not just about having good policies, it’s about people’s experiences and creating an environment where people from different backgrounds can work effectively together. 

We achieve this by:

  • Making sure our recruitment processes are free from discrimination and bias.  Our application process is designed to be open to all and personal details are not shared with the hiring manager throughout the initial shortlisting stages.
  • Making reasonable adjustments to accommodate individual needs during the recruitment process and beyond.
  • Building a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve.
  • Listening to customers and staff about their experiences and being open to changing how we do things.
  • Providing people with the right platform to contribute in their own unique way.
  • Celebrating differences and raising awareness about people’s experiences and what we can do to support people. For example Neurodiversity Week, celebrating LGBTQ+ Month, menopause awareness, men’s health and much more.

If our values and way of working match yours, join us in shaping a workplace that builds on a legacy of 126 years, cares about you as an individual and strives to be even better.

Published on: Thursday July 18, 2024