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Getting Involved
We understand that by listening to our customers and taking action on your feedback it makes us more accountable to you. Customer involvement underpins all we do at Irwell Valley and all colleagues work jointly with Customers as partners in order to improve neighbourhoods and services.

With the benefit of your involvement we aim to increase your satisfaction with your home, neighbourhood and the services we provide. Through listening and feeding back to you we hope to build a good, solid relationship with you, one built on our core values of honesty, dignity, respect and trust.

We offer a diverse variety of involvement opportunities to our residents and all our customers. Opportunities to get involved are outlined in our Keeping our Ear to the Ground document, which is our Customer Involvement Statement and offers a level of involvement to suit everyone, from attending a focus group to becoming a resident board member.
 
Fantastic opportunity to have your views taken into account.

Irwell Valley is looking for customers to join its new Operations Committee and Residents Panel. Members will be required to monitor the Irwell Valley services and help achieve our aim of ‘creating conditions in which customers and colleagues can enjoy living and working and realise their full potential.’

If you’re enthusiastic, diplomatic, and have the confidence to ask questions, then we’d love to hear from you. Applicants should also be good communicators, enjoy working as part of a team and be able to adhere to confidentiality policies.

As a member, you’ll be expected to attend four meetings a year and be prepared to go on relevant training courses.

If you’re interested please contact the Customer Involvement Officer Maria Garnett on 0161 610 4724 or e-mail maria.garnett@irwellvalleyha.co.uk

Successful applicants will be invited to an informal recruitment event to find out more and a selection meeting will take place.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to make sure your views are taken into account and help us provide services right first time, every time. 
 

Ways to get involved:


Spot It Jot It

This is a way for you to report anything that you think needs our attention. Follow this link to access forms for download and completion, or to use the online form to report something to us.

Service Excellence Forums

To get your feedback on our services, Irwell Valley has set up several Service Excellence Forums, which allow residents to give comments and alter how we work. In the past, residents have helped us select new gas servicing and repairs contractors that deliver an improved service.

For more information on our Service Excellence Forums, contact Alicia Littlewood on 0161 610 4792.

Join a Tenants and Residents Association (TARA)
 
A TARA is a group set up and run by residents, which aims to make an impact on their neighbourhood. There are currently eight active TARAs within our neighbourhoods, which receive support from Irwell Valley to help them meet their training and funding needs.
  

If you’d like to find out more about setting up a TARA in your area, contact your Neighbourhood Manager on their next visit or contact your local office. 
 
 
Send us your comments and feedback
 
By sending us feedback through any following methods: comments, compliments and complaints, phoning the Chief Execs Hotline, raising questions at focus groups or meetings or just by telling a member of the team - you could make an impact.  Click here to find out what issues and questions other customers have raised, and how we have responded to them.
 
 

 
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Dispute Resolution Toolkit     Posted on 30/10/2009
Dispute Resolution Toolkit This toolkit is for anyone who may have to deal with conflict in social housing, either as a party to a dispute or as someone supporting the search for a solution. It has been designed to help people understand why, sometimes, there is conflict between providers and consumers of housing services – but it does not stop there.




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Youth Forum     Posted on 30/10/2009
Aged 14 to 20? Irwell Valley needs your help. We’re looking for young people to share their views on Gold Service.




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"You Said - We Did"     Posted on 07/10/2008
We try to respond to all your queries and ideas.  Here are some examples of questions and suggestions made during focus groups, general meetings and "Meet the Chief Executive" sessions as well as our responses.




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Spot It Jot It     Posted on 20/02/2008
Spot It Jot It is a way for you to report anything that you think needs our attention. At the bottom of this page are forms for download and completion, or use the online form below to report something to us.



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