SENIOR managers at Poole-based Synergy Housing Group could lose their jobs as part of a staffing review announced yesterday.

The group, employing around 350 people, is one of the area’s largest landlords with offices in Ferndown, Weymouth and Wareham.

Yesterday staff attended a lunchtime meeting at Bournemouth International Centre where details of the proposals “for more efficient and cost effective board and staffing structures for the group” were unveiled.

A statement released earlier by Synergy, which owns and manages around 10,000 properties through East Dorset Housing Association, Purbeck Housing Trust and Weymouth and Portland Housing, said the proposals would lead to improved services for 8,400 tenants in Dorset and Hampshire.

The statement added: “Synergy’s staffing properties at this stage relate to the implementation of a new senior management staffing structure capable of achieving an Audit Commission 3 star rating for housing management services by 2012.

“To support this ambition for excellence in service delivery there will also be a refocusing of the role and responsibilities of the Synergy board and each of the group’s subsidiary boards.”

The group’s chief executive Graeme Stanley said: “We are now consulting staff, tenants and key stakeholders on these changes before a final decision is made on the new structures in June 2009.”

Synergy’s corporate services director Brian Miller told the Daily Echo: “We are reorganising the organisation, starting with the top two tiers of management.

“Some jobs will disappear; we have identified five posts but others will be created. At the moment we are not saying anyone is being made redundant.”