Compliance and Assurance Team Leader in Nuneaton

Are you an experienced compliance professional with a passion for building safety, regulatory assurance, and service improvement? We are seeking an exceptional Compliance and Assurance Team Leader to join our Assets and Compliance Team. This is a key role responsible for ensuring that our housing services and corporate property services meet all statutory, regulatory, and landlord compliance obligations while driving continuous improvement across building safety and assurance activities. Working closely with the Service Manager for Building Safety, Compliance and Assurance, you will lead a team of Compliance and Assurance Co‑ordinators and Tenant Liaison Officers, providing expert advice, oversight, and assurance across a wide range of safety and compliance functions. This is a varied and influential role where you will:

• Lead and oversee compliance activities across the Council's housing portfolio.
• Ensure compliance with the Regulator of Social Housing's Consumer Standards and other relevant legislation.
• Manage audits, quality assurance reviews, and performance reporting.
• Oversee statutory inspection programmes including fire, gas, electrical, asbestos, legionella, and lift safety.
• Support the production of regulatory returns, KPI reporting, and assurance reporting.
• Champion a strong culture of health, safety, and compliance throughout the organisation.
• Lead tenant engagement initiatives relating to building safety and compliance.
• Manage difficult access cases and ensure statutory inspections are completed using robust and proactive approaches.
• Line manage and develop a team of compliance professionals.
• Deputise for the Service Manager when required.

We are looking for a motivated leader who combines technical knowledge with excellent people management and communication skills and can demonstrate:

• Experience working within a safety, compliance, or building safety environment.
• Experience managing and developing staff.
• NVQ Level 5 qualification in a relevant discipline (or equivalent).
• Level 4 Housing qualification or willingness to work towards achieving it.
• Strong knowledge of housing consumer standards, health and safety legislation, and compliance requirements.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to analyse complex information and present recommendations to a range of audiences.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver results.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and the ability to handle challenging situations.
• Commitment to excellent customer service and continuous improvement.

Our Council

Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council is a small authority with BIG values. We take pride in serving the residents of our borough and look to provide value for money services. We aim to work to the best of our abilities with honesty, integrity and place particular importance on working together. Why join us? Situated in the heart of England, Nuneaton and Bedworth shares excellent rail and motorway links to the rest of the country. We offer a wide range of job opportunities from refuse and cleansing roles, which directly serve our local community, to behind the scenes administrative roles; providing essential support to our front line professionals.

A wide range of benefits including competitive salaries that are based on our competency framework and paid according to the scoring of the job profile, to ensure that all roles performing the same duties are paid equally. A generous annual leave entitlement. Our employees receive 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years continuous service. Plus all bank holidays. A wide range of learning and development opportunities. We recognise our employees as a valuable resource and are therefore committed to the investment of time and financial resources to support the learning and development of our workforce. We offer a wide range of learning prospects, which to name a few include: In‑house training sessions, E‑learning modules, Leadership and management development programmes and a Post Entry Training scheme. Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), which provides a secure future income, independent of share prices and stock market fluctuations. To help your pension grow, the Council meets the balance of the cost of providing your benefits into the LGPS. Health and Wellbeing initiatives- our in‑house Sports Development Team operate regular work place challenges, health checks and MOT's. Employees also receive discounted gym and leisure membership. Wider Wallets - all our employees gain access to offers and permanent discounts to everyday savings, ranging from discounts on high street stores to offers on days outs. Travel, car allowances and schemes - mileage allowances are paid for using cars/cycles for Council business. In addition, Level 1 car users are provided with a car park pass. We also operate a Cycle salary sacrifice scheme. Work‑life balance - we have a number of initiatives in place to support flexible working including, a job‑sharing policy, career break scheme, flexible working policy, flexitime scheme, parental leave scheme, time off for dependants, maternity support leave and agile working. Armed Force Covenant - We are proud signatories of the Armed Force Covenant and actively work to ensure that we continue to deliver on our commitment as stated in the Covenant. We were recently awarded the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award. We have a range of internal processes and policies to support our Armed Forces Communities.

What we look for…

We seek candidates that can adapt to change and welcome new challenges. We look for those that share our values and take pride in what they do.