Healthy Homes Inspector in Luton

Location: Cambridge / Hybrid

Reporting to: Building Surveyor (IHMS)

Salary: £39,000 plus £2,000 car allowance

Working pattern: Hybrid

Hours: 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 every day 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 Surveying Services 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 Surveying Services 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 technical knowledge around Damp and Mould.
• 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).
• Good communication skills.

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.

Our values:

• We take responsibility - we do what we say we'll do and make the right choices, even when they're not the easiest.
• We're better together - we work as one team, value different perspectives, and achieve more by collaborating.
• We show empathy - we listen, respect one another and care about our colleagues, customers and environment.
• We're ambitious - we keep learning, improving and looking for better ways to make a positive difference.

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