At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team ensuring quality housing services and safety standards.
- Company: North Yorkshire Council, dedicated to providing affordable and sustainable homes.
- Benefits: 28-34 days holiday, generous pension scheme, fitness discounts, and lifestyle savings.
- Other info: Join a diverse workforce committed to community service and continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in housing while leading a passionate team.
- Qualifications: Experience in construction supervision and strong leadership skills required.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
Location: Selby, North Yorkshire with the expectation to visit sites across the county.
Our Service
The purpose of our Service is to provide quality, affordable, healthy and sustainable homes that meet the present and future needs of all our tenants. The Housing Standards team is made up of five closely linked areas of housing expertise i.e., construction, repairs, improvements, contract management and safety. Each team consists of suitably qualified, skilled, and experienced trade operatives, surveyors, or contract supervisors.
The role
As a Team Leader, you are fundamental to ensuring the successful delivery of the Housing Service. This newly created role requires a proactive and pragmatic approach to ensure the council’s housing assets meet current and future statutory and regulatory requirements. You will manage and motivate a locality-based team, promoting high behavioural, quality and safety standards, and ensuring these are consistently adhered to.
The core focus of this role is to lead and manage a team of Surveyors, overseeing stock condition surveys, fire risk assessments, and the investigation of disrepair claims, ensuring the delivery of regulatory service standards across our portfolio of assets in line with Housing service levels, plans and strategies. This includes applying a strong knowledge of construction processes, materials and methods, alongside the ability to read and interpret drawings and plans to support effective decision‑making and delivery.
You will bring proven experience in a construction supervisory or team leader role, with excellent leadership and communication skills that enable you to effectively manage workloads, prioritise tasks and drive team performance. A strong understanding of health and safety legislation, with relevant qualifications such as CSCS and SMSTS or SSSTS preferred, will be essential in maintaining compliance and ensuring a safe working environment. In addition, you will demonstrate a problem‑solving mindset with a proactive approach, enabling you to respond to challenges efficiently and support the continuous improvement of service delivery across the housing portfolio.
What you will bring
- You will have knowledge of current best practice in social housing relating to tenant safety and the decent home standard.
- Experience in delivering quality housing repair works along with excellent customer service skills.
- You will have experience of managing a team with the ability to effectively prioritise, plan and organise workloads to ensure deadlines and targets are met.
- Manage change and deliver continuous improvement.
- Excellent communication skills are a must, both written and oral with the ability to problem solve and find pragmatic solutions.
Working for us
When you join us, you are entitled to our outstanding benefits and wellbeing plan as part of your position. Our holiday entitlement starts at 28 days rising to 34 days (pro‑rata) per year with continued service, plus public holidays. Pension: save for your retirement with our generous local government pension scheme with a 22.6% contribution. Fitness & Rewards: Fitness discounts with various Gyms across the county. Lifestyle Savings: explore a huge range of discounts to help you save money across hundreds of the UK’s favourite high‑street and online retailers.
NYC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies. We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.
Housing Standards Team Leader in Selby employer: Applefields School
As a Housing Standards Team Leader with North Yorkshire Council, you will be part of a dedicated team committed to providing quality, affordable housing that meets the needs of our diverse community. Our supportive work culture prioritises employee wellbeing, offering generous holiday entitlements, a robust pension scheme, and various lifestyle discounts, all while fostering an environment that values diversity and continuous improvement. This role not only allows for professional growth through hands-on leadership experience but also contributes to meaningful change in the lives of residents across North Yorkshire.
