Plymouth Community Homes Plymouth Community Homes (PCH) is the largest locally-based social housing provider in Plymouth. The not-for-profit association works to provide high quality and affordable homes for rental to the local community and its tradespeople carry out more than 50,000 repairs a year.
Mike Jones, Business Skills Advisor at the College said: “The College has a long standing, positive working relationship with Plymouth Community Homes. We worked closely with them to create this bespoke training programme in order to meet their business and timetabling needs.”
PCH is responsible for the maintenance of the social housing stock in the city and when it needed to train 62 tradespeople from its maintenance and repair department, it approached City College Plymouth. The company recognised the need for staff to obtain a greater range of skills in order to improve operational efficiency and to provide an improved level of service to clients.
Mike continued: “It
was important that we understood PCH’s specific business needs and were able to support them with a programme of training which would deliver maximum benefits with as little disruption as possible - this we achieved with 100% success.”
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