Team: Housing Property Planned Works
Job Family: Providing - CBG11
Salary: £41,042 - £44,296 per annum pro rata + Market Rate Supplement £5,500 per annum pro rata
Hours: 37 hours per week
Location: You will be expected to attend a CBC office location as often as needed to carry out your role, which will be no less than once per month
Contract Type: Hybrid - Permanent (x 3 positions available)
Closing Date: This is a rolling advert and we reserve the right to close this advert if we recieve sufficient applications for this role.
Interview Date: Candidates will be contacted if selected for an interview
About the role:
It's an exciting time at Central Bedfordshire's Housing Service.
The Housing Surveyor is an exciting opportunity within the Housing Directorate to deliver planned improvements within our housing stock of some 5,200+ homes across Central Bedfordshire.
Working within the Planned Works Team our Housing Surveyor's support the capital investment programme, ensuring our homes are safe and to meet our obligations to achieve the Decent Homes Standard. You will be someone who puts the customer at the heart of everything they do & embeds equality and diversity in all aspects of the Housing Services delivery.
Day to day the role delivers contract management and quality assurance for our improvement programme. The programme includes workstreams for kitchen and bathroom replacement, Roofing, Windows, Doors and internal/ external improvements across our housing portfolio.
Our Housing Surveyor's are customer focused and the delivery of surveys, inspections and improvements within our residential homes requires excellent communication skills.
Reporting to the Housing Planned Works Team Leader, the role requires technical experience to ensure quality standards and experience in commercial awareness to ensure VFM is achieved within contract management.
Qualitifications and Experience:
1. Ideally you will hold a Degree or HND in Building Surveying or Construction Mnagement, or related discipline, however this is not essential.
2. If you do not hold the above qualifications you must be qualified by extensive relevant experience in Housing / Property and planned works contract delivery.
3. Knowledge of Social Housing Satndards, Decent Homes Standard, HHRSR and Landlord responsibilities.
4. Experience and/or knowledge of CDM regulations / Health & Safety.
Our Offer
We have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our Rewards and Benefits page
Our aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer. We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process.
You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies in this Recruitment Pack.
Our Competency Framework and Qualification Guidance are to be read in conjunction with our Recruitment Pack.
For an informal discussion about this position, please contact: Adrian Evans-Strange at or call
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