Healthy Homes Inspector

Bedford (Hybrid)

£39,000 per annum

Permanent

Full time (37 hours per week)

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a candidate to join bpha’s In House Maintenance Service, who make a difference to our customer’s lives everyday by delivering a high-quality repairs service designed around them.

We operate across Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and surrounding areas, and we utilise the latest technology to ensure that we not only deliver a great experience for our customers, but for our colleagues as well.

We are looking for a Healthy Homes Inspector to join our newly formed Small Works Team. They will be responsible for identifying and specifying technical solutions to a wide range of building defects as well as ordering the works required and managing them to conclusion to ensure that our customers’ homes remain free from hazards and disrepair.

You will be professional, respectful, adaptable, self-motivated, take pride and ownership of your workstream, able to resolve the challenges it encounters, whilst keeping the customer at the heart of the services we deliver.

What you will be doing:

• Responsible for ensuring that IHMS Small Works team operate within a strong culture of health, safety, environment, and quality that can be evidenced, stands up to scrutiny and audit.

• Responsible for developing solutions that address the cause of the defects and provide a long-term solution using a building pathology approach

• Responsible for ensuring that all communications and documentation are recorded and stored in the appropriate bpha systems

• Responsible for the day-to-day operational completion of inspections and surveys

• Responsible for the creation of technical specifications that address the cause of the defects and provide a long-term solution as well as instructing works required

• Responsible for proactively managing contractors employed by bpha, ensuring that they understand our requirements, receive clear instruction and mitigate and control operational risk

• Responsible for ensuring that all works delivered by the Small Works in-house delivery team offer value for money and operate within the constraints of the budget

We’d love to meet someone with:

• Experienced construction professional with sound knowledge of maintenance and repair works

• Good knowledge & experience of landlord responsibilities, construction & housing health and safety

• Knowledge and understanding of health and safety issues affecting construction and associated works

• Experience working in the social housing maintenance sector, either client or contractor side

• Experienced in managing Housing Condition Claims (Disrepair)

Amongst what we offer you is:

• A competitive salary

• 28 days holiday PLUS Bank Holidays (Rising with services to 33 days plus bank hols)

• A generous contributory pension scheme

• Private health care

• Free life assurance

• Enhanced family leave

• Access to an extensive suite of wellbeing services and tools including a digital gym

• Opportunities for learning and development

• Discounted gym membership

• Retail discount scheme

Please note the successful candidate will need to complete a basic DBS application.

Closing date: 10th November 2024

Interviews: To be confirmed

We reserve the right to close this recruitment if it is deemed that we have received a suitable number of applications. On this basis we would advise that applications are submitted as soon as possible