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Becoming a Housing Professional for Effectiveness
Kathy Hanson CIH – Head of Learning
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Our Origins
• Industrial Revolution • Movement of population to cities • Low building standards • Overcrowding• Royal Commission (1885) detailed poor living conditions
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Foundations of the Profession
• time of great social change • first public heath laws, philanthropists aiming to
change society • Octavia Hill (1838-1912)
• 1916 founded the Society of Women Housing Managers
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CIH
• the professional body for housing • a registered charity • awarding body for qualifications • 23,000 members worldwide • members working together locally
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Our Aim
Everything we do can be traced back to one objective:
“We want everyone to have a decent, affordable home in a thriving, safe community”
Learn, Influence, Improve
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Learn
• Awarding Body • Set the standard for university courses • Deliver courses leading to a qualifications • Unaccredited training • Specialist programmes e.g. Leadership • Learning and Development Review • Free workshops for members on career
development and learning in the workplace
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Influence
• Our policy team work on the full range of housing issues
• Work with partners to promote the “cause” of housing and set the agenda
• Work with government – positively influence
• Feed knowledge in to CIH services
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Improve
• CIH provides advice on “good practice”• Publish a range of advice from bite sized
notes to books and reports • Run events on policy and practice issues • Ensure training looks at skills as well and
knowledge • Standard setting – govt. doing less so CIH
is starting to fill the gap
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What does it mean to be a professional? • Ensure you have right skills and
knowledge for the job (validated course and CPD)
• Work within our Code of Conduct , includes both positive and negative duties
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Personal Skills and Knowledge
• Moving from Member to Chartered Member
• Seeking out feedback - formally and informally using tools such as 360 degree appraisal
• Personal • Development Planning • CPD
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Code of Conduct
• Responsibilities to the profession • Personal Conduct • Responsibilities to CIH
• If complaint is received CIH will investigate and can warn, reprimand, suspend or terminate membership
http://www.cih.org/CodeofConduct
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Summary
• A professional body that works at all levels of the system (alone and in partnership)
• Qualification framework that provides progression routes and impacts on performance on the ground
• Clear standards of behaviour