Specialist Home Improvement Agency Surveyor

Salary range: £42,912 - £52,269 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience.

Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, SW1E 6QPHours per week: 36

Contract type: Permanent

Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check

About Us

Environmental Health at Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories, where passionate and expert professionals go above and beyond for their communities every day.

The Role

As a Surveyor in our Home Improvement Agency, you can make your own powerful contribution to helping residents live independently, safely, and comfortably in their own homes. You’ll be at the heart of delivering adaptations and home improvements that transform lives – from installing level-access showers and stairlifts to tackling damp, disrepair, and other hazards that impact wellbeing. You’ll oversee and deliver a varied caseload of property assessments, working closely with residents, Occupational Therapists, and contractors to design practical, high-quality solutions that meet individual needs.

Whether you’re managing complex disability adaptations, coordinating pre- and post-work inspections, or ensuring works meet the legislation including the Housing Grants Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 and the Building Safety Act 2022, you’ll ensure every project runs smoothly, on time, and to budget. You’ll manage contractors to deliver works to the highest standards, maintaining robust quality assurance systems, resolving any service issues promptly, and ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget.

Health and Safety is central to everything you do – you’ll ensure all works comply with Council policies, legislation, and best practice, and provide guidance to colleagues to uphold safe working standards. You will work collaboratively with colleagues including apprentices, Case workers and partner agencies. You’ll help develop the professional team, with colleagues, including sharing your knowledge and skills by coaching staff, and developing their technical expertise. You’ll also take the lead in addressing and resolving complaints and addressing defects quickly and effectively, ensuring that issues are fully resolved and documented.

Collaboration is key. You’ll work closely with colleagues across the Home Improvement Agency and with partner organisations to deliver a joined-up, resident-focused service. And while doing that, you’ll manage contracts in line with the Council’s Procurement Service and lead service development initiatives and projects to improve processes, efficiency, and customer outcomes. This is a hands-on role where your technical expertise, problem-solving skills, and eye for detail will make a tangible difference. From managing delivery of services and ensuring compliance to supporting continuous service improvement, you’ll play a vital role in delivering lasting change – one home at a time.

About You

You have experience delivering disability adaptations, home improvements, and repairs in residential buildings, including specialist works such as wheelchair lifts, ramps, level access showers, and ceiling track hoists. Success in this role will call for experience in assessing and addressing disrepair in line with the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS), as will use of your skills applying legislation such as the Housing Grants Construction and Regeneration Act 1996, Building Safety Act 2022, Building Regulations 2010, and relevant Health and Safety legislation, including CDM 2015 and Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012.

Your experience in managing supplier relationships and your ability to analyse financial and performance information to identify opportunities for improvement, are what will allow you to thrive here. You’ll also need to have demonstrated personal leadership in managing complex caseloads and leading change initiatives, including service development, innovation, and achieving key performance indicators.

Your professional experience includes designing and planning major adaptation including creating and using plans, investigating and resolving complaints, risk assessment, and delivering adaptations and home improvements in homes where space is limited. You will also be confident working independently, including lone working, and be resilient, adaptable, and able to travel across Westminster when required.

Your advanced communication and stakeholder engagement skills enable you to influence, engage, and collaborate effectively across teams, departments, and partner organisations. You are customer-focused, empathetic, and able to understand the needs of vulnerable residents, ensuring services are delivered safely, inclusively, and to a high standard. Skilled in IT, including Microsoft Office, databases, and interpreting scale drawings, you demonstrate personal leadership in promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion throughout your work.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

What We Offer

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way.

As a forward-thinking Council, we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working. The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for an interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning, subject to the volume of suitable applicants.