Student Placement, Human Resources

Student Placement. Human Resources
37 Hours Per Week
Location: Citylink Business Park, Belfast
Salary: 24,242pa paid placement (Under Review)
Job Reference: SP0226/HR

Choice Housing is one of the leading providers of social housing in Northern Ireland, offering a wide range of in-house and peripatetic roles. Our peripatetic teams work across communities to support our tenants by providing homes, maintaining properties, and delivering collaborative social initiatives. Our in-house teams support the organisation through functions such as IT, customer services, human resources, finance, marketing, administration, and more.
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As part of our student placement programme, each student will have the opportunity to enter into the Brian McKenna Award competition by developing a business improvement initiative. The student with the winning project will receive their final year’s university tuition fees paid by Choice Housing.
This opportunity is open to students undertaking a sandwich year placement (typically Year 2 of university) who will return to complete their undergraduate degree following their placement year with us.

Our employees have access to a range of benefits:-

• 22 days annual leave plus an additional 5 days after 5 years’ service, and 12 public holidays,
• Hybrid working – approximately 3 days’ working from home,
• Flexible working – including the ability to accrue 2 additional leave days per month,
• 6% employer pension contribution,
• Death in service benefit x3 annual salary,
• Paid maternity and paternity leave,
• Bereavement leave,
• Learning and Development opportunities to include paid courses relevant to your role,
• Health cash plan to include annual routine dental treatments, dental accident & injury, yearly optical, specialist consultations, diagnostic tests and scans, complementary therapies e.g. physiotherapy, acupuncture, osteopathy and chiropractic treatments, alternative therapies e.g. reflexology, head massage, allergy testing, and yearly health screening.

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​If you have any disability which prevents you from completing the online application form, please contact me to discuss what further assistance you require.

Completed applications should be returned by 11.30pm, Friday 6th March 2026.

​​​​​​​If you have not been contacted further in writing on or before Friday 3rd April 2026 you will not have been short-listed for interview.​​​​​​​

Please note, the Association reserves the right to create a reserve list following the interview process.

​​​​​​The successful candidate will be required to provide proof of essential qualifications and also provide documentary evidence of their eligibility to work in the United Kingdom. We are also committed to adhering to the Access NI Code of Practice/Service Level of Agreement in relation to requesting disclosure checks where appropriate and processing information in accordance with the code. Choice has a policy on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders and it is available upon request (email: recruitment@choice-housing.org)

​​​​​​​Choice is committed to providing equality of opportunity to all applicants for employment, including those with criminal convictions. Information about criminal convictions will be taken into account only when the conviction is considered materially relevant to the role.

​​​*If shortlisted you will be sent an email inviting you for interview, please check the email address you have provided on the application and also your junk mail folder*