Senior Housing Compliance Manager
Team: HSS - Housing Compliance
Job Family: Managing - CBG15
Salary: £60,204 - £65,493 per annum pro rata + MRS £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
Closing Date: 16th March 2025
Interview Date: W/C 24th March 2025
About the role:
As the Senior Housing Compliance Manager, you will have overall responsibility for compliance and safety services related to the Council’s housing assets (e.g. legionella, mitigating fire risk, asbestos, etc.).
You will have a background in building safety and property compliance management enabling you to take responsibility for ensuring that the Council’s property management systems and controls are effective and robust, and that the Council is fully compliant with all Landlord obligations, relevant laws, regulations and quality standards of the Regulator of Social Housing and the Social Housing Regulation Act 2023.
Reporting to the Head of Housing Property, you will manage a team of technical staff, contractors and consultants contributing to the monitoring and maintenance of health and safety requirements. You will work closely with colleagues to ensure a coordinated approach to the delivery of corporate and housing priorities and projects along with:
- Developing a Housing Compliance Strategy that considers all legal and regulatory obligations, outlines overall objectives, and the actions needed to achieve and evidence delivery of the objectives.
- Introducing and developing new and/or better methods of delivering building compliance and safety.
- Identifying issues and preparing policy documents and reports and, if appropriate attend and represent the interests of the Housing Service at committees, scrutiny meetings or any task group or working group.
- Ensuring compliance performance is consistently measured and monitored to provide assurance, scrutiny, and challenge.
- Overseeing internal and external audit for compliance areas that provides independent assurance that residents are safe.
If you feel you have the leadership skills or potential to develop into the role then we would love to hear from you.
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.
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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: James Yeomans at james.yeomans@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or call 0300 300 5957
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