Join our team
Raven Renewables is part of Raven Housing Trust – when you join Raven Renewables, you’re employed by Raven Housing Trust, joining the wider Raven family.
Here at Raven we’re always on the lookout for passionate individuals who share our values and vision for a sustainable future. If you’re looking for a rewarding career that can also help to make the world a better, greener place, then look no further.
Find out more about the benefits of working at Raven and join us on our mission to deliver innovative renewable energy solutions that can help shape a better tomorrow for us all.
Our Values
Trust
We earn trust by being open and accountable
Understand
We truly understand others’ needs before we act
Collaborate
We collaborate with colleagues, customers and partners to develop innovative services
Care
We come to work because we care about providing good quality, affordable homes and services to those that need them. We believe we can make tomorrow better than today
The Raven way
Our culture is the expression of our values – it’s how we live them every day. At Raven, community and inclusion are at the heart of our culture, as it’s by working together and engaging with our customers that we can achieve our purpose.
What we offer
To create a great experience for our customers, we need to create a great experience for one another. What Raven offers goes beyond the ordinary, giving you the opportunity to join a community of people who share the same values and are passionate about making a difference.
The benefits of working at Raven are:
Social purpose
Raven is all about social purpose. Our business strategy focuses on delivering value and meaning for our customers and employees.
Culture and people
Raven Renewables is part of Raven Housing Trust – we are a community of unique individuals with shared values, working together to achieve our purpose and create a great experience for our customers and one another. We love to get together and have team away days, social events, online hobby groups, and an annual Christmas party.
Carbon reduction
We’re committed to making tomorrow better than today, and what better way to be part of this journey than by joining the Raven Renewables team – delivering our net zero carbon commitments throughout Raven and beyond.
Innovative projects
We seek to constantly improve, using new technologies and ways of working. We have projects underway piloting how intelligent automation, and predictive analytics can help us deliver even better services to our customers.
Diversity and inclusion
Community is at the heart of our culture so it’s vital we all feel comfortable to be ourselves at work – it’s our differences that make us interesting, whilst our values bind us together. Our ED&I Team (EDIT) help us to identify targeted action and support for all our employees. We are Disability Confident Committed and a member of the Women’s Trade Network.
Wellbeing
We take a holistic approach to wellbeing encompassing physical, mental, social, and financial, and the support we offer includes an employee assistance programme, health cash plan, Mental Health First Aiders, financial education, health checks, physiotherapy app, annual flu jab, and more.
Flexible working
Work-life balance means something different to everyone, so we support you to fit your work around your life in the way that’s best for you, your role, and our customers. We provide a generous holiday entitlement, the opportunity to buy and sell leave, enhanced maternity and paternity pay, and sabbaticals after 5 years of service.
Learning and development
We want to equip you with the skills you need now and for the future and so we provide self-directed learning, training sessions, professional qualifications, and the opportunity to develop your experience via projects, forums, secondments, community events, and working groups.
Celebrating success
We reward team and individual contribution via our voucher-based recognition scheme and share great customer feedback on Facebook Workplace. We have long service awards to recognise commitment, and extra mile awards for those who go above and beyond.
Employee involvement
As a community, it’s important to us that everyone has their views heard. We run quarterly staff surveys and have an employee forum and ED&I team, as well as regular team meetings, focus groups, and events where we share information and ideas.
Security for the future
We provide a generous pension scheme and contribute the equivalent of up to 10% of your salary. We also provide life insurance of 3 times your basic salary.
Extra benefits and perks
We support to you make your money go further with our retail discounts, cycle to work scheme, and cost-effective ways to purchase dental insurance and health assessments. For our Trades, we provide work vans, tools and uniform free of charge.
What we ask
It’s not just what we do, it’s how we do it that sets us apart from other organisations and helps us create a great customer experience. Our culture statements form the principles for how we work and what we expect of one another.
One Raven
We are a community with a shared purpose. We are inclusive and value everyone’s contribution.
Customer first and right first time
We put our customers at the heart of our decisions, and always keep our promises.
Right people, right focus
We take responsibility for our areas of work, trust one another to make decisions, and avoid unnecessary bureaucracy.
Keep things simple
We’re straightforward and say what we mean. We have clear, well-defined processes that help rather than hinder.
Use feedback and data to improve
We make decisions based on feedback, data, and insights, rather than relying on gut instinct or assumption.
Bold and innovative
We’re curious, try new things, and learn from our mistakes. We want to make tomorrow better than today.
Question to understand
We are solution-focussed, working together to identify and fix problems. We ask rather than tell.
Words matter
We choose our words with care and recognise their impact. We listen carefully, to hear the meaning behind words.