Work with us
We’re an award-winning employer and we pride ourselves on looking after our staff and providing opportunities for career development. Working for us gives you the chance to play a part in improving homes and communities throughout Barnsley. In addition, our employees enjoy amazing benefits including hybrid and flexible working, an excellent pension scheme, career support and training opportunities, and a range of offers and discounts. But don't just take our word for it, see what it's like to work here and hear from our colleagues below!
We offer career paths in a number of areas including things like construction, customer services, regeneration, tenancy support, IT, and much more. You can find out about our different directorates below.
If you’re looking for a new opportunity, click on the button below to browse our current vacancies and apply.
Construction services
Corporate services
Customer and estate services
Property services
Early careers at Berneslai Homes
If you’re looking to start or change your career, no matter what stage you’re at or the experience you’ve had, we’re passionate about supporting people into their early or new careers.
Our early career schemes have no upper age limit, so if you’re passionate about improving people’s lives, supporting the community, and overcoming challenges – we’d love to hear from you!
Office apprenticeships
Craft apprenticeships
Graduate scheme
Other placements and work experience
Our culture
Our mantra is ‘roots in the past, eyes on the future’ which means as a company we learn from our experiences and look ahead, supporting the Barnsley 2030 vision. We're always evolving and adapting to continue delivering for Barnsley in an ever-changing environment.
All our staff are committed to this aim and have signed up to our values which are all about providing a great service to our tenants and supporting the people of Barnsley.
Our 3s values support this: customer first, can do attitude, curious.
What's it like working here?
Our vision is: Creating great homes and communities with the people of Barnsley.
Our mission supports our vision: Great place, great people, great company.
It's a really exciting time to join team Berneslai, as we're on an ambitious transformation journey. But don’t just take our word for it, hear what our colleagues have to say...
Saqib - Gas Engineer
Megan - Information Governance Officer
Liam - Gas Engineer
Sadia - Family Intervention Administration Assistant
Working for Berneslai Homes has never been so rewarding
Our employees are our most valued resource, and this is reflected in the wide range of benefits we provide to attract, develop, and retain them. We're committed to providing a range of initiatives that support the needs of our employees.
Here are some of our most loved benefits, according to our colleagues…
Helping you achieve a work-life balance
Giving you more money in your pocket
Supporting your health and wellbeing
Helping you achieve your career goals
We're an inclusive employer
We pride ourselves on being a workplace where everyone can be themselves. We value and celebrate differences and unique contributions each individual brings to our organisation. Equality, diversity, and inclusion are central to us and we’re thrilled to have been awarded a Housing Diversity Network accreditation to help showcase our dedication. You can read our EDI Strategy here.
Equality forums
We support the development of communities through partnership working and we’re actively involved in community project initiatives. We play an active part in supporting and working with equality forums including:
- Barnsley Together (for Black and minority ethnic communities)
- My Barnsley Too (for people with disabilities)
- Gender Equality Forum
- Barnsley LGBT+ Forum
- Deaf Forum
Equality Champions
We encourage our staff who are passionate about equality and diversity to act as Equality Champions. They play a key role in scrutinising our work and challenging us to do better with our equality and diversity agenda. They're actively involved in promoting and attending equality events across the borough as well as getting involved with various project and initiatives.
Disability Confident
We're a Disability Confident Employer which means that we're working hard to support people with disabilities to apply for jobs and work with us.
We're a caring employer
The health and wellbeing of everyone who works here is incredibly important to us. We offer flexible working in many roles and a fantastic, modern, agile working space in the heart of Barnsley town centre.
As well as a range of staff benefits and discounts including local gym membership offers and free health checks, you'll have access to our Wellbeing Hub with a range of resources and support. We also have dedicated Wellbeing Champions who are trained as mental health first aiders.
We create opportunities for social events, fundraising for local charities, and activities to promote good mental health and wellbeing.
We're a supportive employer
As a learning organisation, we're committed to continuous improvement and development.
Whatever your role is, you'll have access to a wide range of training opportunities, job shadowing, coaching, and learning experiences both in person and online.
Once a year we all get together for our annual Staff Conference - a great opportunity to meet other colleagues and learn together.
Applying for a job with us
So, you'd like to come and work with us? Here's an outline of the candidate journey and what to expect at each stage. We look forward to receiving your application - good luck!
Step 1 - the process
Step 2 - application
Step 3 - shortlisting
Step 4 - interview
Step 5 - the offer
Step 6 - onboarding
Step 7 - your first day!