Stock Condition Lead
Location: Home-based with regular regional travel Contract: Permanent, Full time
Salary: c.£50,000 plus £5,800 car allowance To view the JD:
Play a central role in shaping the quality, safety, and long‑term sustainability of our homes by leading our stock condition surveying programme. As our Stock Condition Lead, you’ll manage a team of surveyors, drive data quality, and ensure the insights we collect directly inform investment decisions, compliance, and resident experience.
About the Role
As our Stock Condition Lead, you’ll take ownership of the annual stock condition survey programme, planning, coordinating, and delivering surveys across our housing portfolio. You’ll lead and develop a team of surveyors, set clear standards, and ensure surveys capture lifecycle data, photographic evidence, and HHSRS information consistently and accurately.
You’ll oversee quality assurance, data validation, and uploads into the asset management system, working closely with the Asset Data Manager and Analysts to resolve exceptions and maintain data integrity. You’ll also manage access performance, support resident‑friendly communication, and implement no‑access protocols when required.
By collaborating with Repairs, Compliance, Building Safety, Retrofit, Development, and Customer teams, you’ll help align survey activity with wider programmes and reduce repeat visits. Your work will directly support our Asset Management Strategy, financial planning, and compliance with Decent Homes, HHSRS, and damp & mould expectations.
What You’ll Be Doing
1. Leading, line‑managing, and developing the Stock Condition Surveyor team.
2. Planning and scheduling the annual stock condition survey programme.
3. Defining survey standards and ensuring consistent capture of lifecycle, HHSRS, and photographic data.
4. Quality assuring survey outputs and implementing controls to maintain accuracy.
5. Managing data validation and uploads into the asset management system.
6. Monitoring productivity, access performance, and resident communication.
7. Managing supply chain partners where external surveyors are used.
8. Ensuring health, safety, and wellbeing across all survey activities, including lone working and asbestos awareness.
9. Reporting performance using dashboards, KPIs, and audit outcomes.
10. Collaborating across teams to align survey activity with wider programmes and reduce duplication.
What You’ll Bring
Skills & Experience
11. Strong understanding of stock condition surveying and asset management.
12. Experience leading field‑based surveyor teams.
13. Proven ability to deliver large‑scale survey programmes.
14. Experience implementing QA frameworks and audit regimes.
15. Strong data literacy and experience working with survey datasets.
16. Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage residents.
17. Ability to collaborate across teams and influence decision‑making.
18. Commitment to accuracy, consistency, and continuous improvement.
Qualifications
19. Qualification in Surveying, Construction Management, Property Management, or equivalent experience.
20. Professional accreditation (, MCIOB, MRICS) or working towards is welcomed.
21. Commitment to ongoing CPD.
22. Ability to travel across the region as required.
Anchor – a great place to work
Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.
We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.
Our values
Every one of us can make a difference to our residents and play a part in shaping homes and services around their needs.
Our Anchor values of being Accountable, Respectful, Courageous and Honest apply to us all, whether you manage colleagues as part of your role or not.
Displaying our values can influence those around us to do the same. We can all be leaders at Anchor and should all be driven by the same customer ethos. Our helps align these values with the skills and behaviours we demonstrate.
A rewarding environment
From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.
Health & happiness
23. Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
24. Mental health support
25. Flexible working options
26. Access to online GP appointments
Finance
27. Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
28. Quick and easy pension transfer service
29. Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
30. Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more
31. Free Blue Light Card
Career
32. Ongoing personal and professional development programme
33. Leadership Pathways online learning resources
34. Career progression and promotion opportunities
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Celebrating diversity, celebrating you
Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.
We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.
We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Menopause Friendly and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.