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Building Safety Administrator

Employer: Town & Country Housing Group
Close date: Monday 01/04/2024

Salary: £25,537

Hours of Work: 35

Contract: Permanent

Who are we?

Town and Country Housing are a housing association that covers Kent and Sussex, with our head office in Tunbridge Wells. We provide more than 10,000 homes in 15 local authority areas and became a subsidiary of the Peabody Group in 2019. We currently have over 300 employees based at various locations across Kent and promote hybrid working.

Role Summary

As a building safety administrator, you will provide contract administration support to the building safety and compliance contracts. This will involve providing support and coordination to ensure that compliancy is achieved. This role is based in our Tunbridge Wells office.

Role Specific Responsibilities

  • To provide a high level of administration support to the Building Safety and Compliance Team.
  • To ensure high levels of resident satisfaction with building safety services.
  • Organise fire risk assessments and associated remedial works. Work closely with the contractors to ensure all properties are 100% compliant each month.
  • Carry out effective filing and inputting of data for fire services, callouts and repairs.
  • Carry out effective filing and inputting of data for legionella contracts. This includes updating spreadsheets to ensure 100% compliancy for monthly monitoring and legionella risk assessments.
  • Ensure all insurance and bi-weekly inspections are completed for the play areas, including updating spreadsheets to ensure compliancy.
  • Ensure servicing of compliance contracts are completed, including creating and updating spreadsheets to ensure all are 100% compliant.
  • To communicate effectively with both internal and external customers, focussing on the needs of the customer and ensuring that services and methods of delivery meet their needs and expectations.
  • Actively participate in the development and promotion of a safety culture through day-to-day activities and language.
  • Organise contractor meetings, gather all relevant documents, produce a meeting agenda, produce accurate minutes from the meeting and ensure all documents are shared with the meeting members.

General

  • To adhere to the business equal opportunities policy and to actively promote equality of opportunity wherever possible.
  • Recognise, respect and promote the different roles and diversity of individuals.
  • To actively contribute towards achieving the businesses performance targets.
  • Contribute to our digital strategy by supporting digital engagement with our customers where relevant and promoting every opportunity to become digitally included.
  • Work in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and ensure you complete training on data protection regularly.
  • To be responsible for your own health and safety and that of your colleagues, in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) and relevant EC directives.
  • To take responsibility for your own development and professionalism, ensuring that you keep up to date with new developments and continuously expand and build on your knowledge.
  • Attend and participate in training and other meetings and staff events as required.
  • Be an effective member of your team, always presenting a positive impression of your department and of the business.
  • This role may require an individual to travel to various sites across our housing stock and it would be helpful if an individual in this role has a full driving licence and access to a car.
  • This job description is a guide to the nature of the work required. It is not comprehensive, and it is expected that other duties will be undertaken as this role develops and as may be reasonably expected.

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Housing Strategy Officer (Thanet Area)

Employer: Thanet District Council
Close date: Tuesday 02/04/2024

Starting Salary: £36,132 per annum, with opportunity for progression to £40,860 Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time Contractual hours: 37 Basis: Full time

Thanet is a great place to live and work...
Our historic seaside towns of Ramsgate, Margate and Broadstairs and surrounding villages are rich in heritage and opportunity. With 19 miles of stunning coastline, our beautiful Blue Flag beaches, the internationally renowned Turner Contemporary, and the UK’s only Royal Harbour are all just a short train ride from central London thanks to the high-speed rail link. Our proximity to the port of Dover and the Eurotunnel at Folkestone mean Europe is literally on our doorstep too.

All of this, combined with a flexible approach to how we work makes it an exciting time to join Thanet District Council. We have set our sights high. We want our residents to enjoy the highest quality services. We want to ensure that by listening to local people, working in active partnership and doing things in an innovative way, we can accelerate improvement to meet the challenges ahead.

Job details

We’re better when we work together! And that’s not just with colleagues within the Council… Housing associations (known as registered providers, or RPs) are very much part of our wider team, striving to deliver much-needed affordable housing in the Thanet District. Though Thanet has some of the biggest aspirations in the county to try and bridge the gap between supply and demand for affordable housing, we can’t do it on our own. With your sound housing experience, related qualifications or ability to learn, your networking skills, understanding of how councils are intervening in the housing market and overcoming the challenges that new legislation presents to ambitious delivery programmes, you’ll strike the right chord with RPs and developers alike, working alongside internal and external stakeholders as we strive to build and buy our own stock, but also help RPs to invest in the Thanet District too for the betterment of our residents.

Main duties

  • You will work with housing associations, Homes England and developers to facilitate the delivery of new homes, including affordable homes across the district. You’ll also work as part of the Acquisitions project, viewing properties and negotiating purchase prices with developers
  • You will maintain effective working relationships with housing providers, discussing the barriers they face to the delivery of new homes and advise on strategies for increasing the speed of delivery involving the Council.
  • You’ll have an in-depth knowledge of the planning system and will negotiate with planning officers, developers, housing associations and Homes England to ensure that the affordable housing provision reflects the needs of the district as it is included in new developments
  • You will constantly keep across new announcements and information relating to the housing market to help us ensure the homes we are delivering are the right homes in the right places
  • You will develop bids for funding to support the activity of the housing service (such as Homes England grant, Brownfield Land Release Fund and other funding streams) - experience of working with Homes England’s IMS system would be an advantage
  • You will promote sustainable communities through the drafting of local lettings plans as necessary and consult a breadth of stakeholders on policies, strategies and projects
  • You will also ensure that official housing returns are completed accurately and on time

Tasks will include

Building the strongest rapport with RP colleagues - so that when they choose to invest they invest in opportunities within the Thanet District

Building relationships with colleagues within other Kent local authorities to understand how everyone is tackling the challenges that face the sector

Keeping across news in the housing sector

Demonstrating sound organisational and prioritisation skills to be able to respond to deadlines from government

Cultivating strong connections with internal stakeholders to comment on planning applications, to understand the nature of ‘need’ from a housing options perspective

A knowledge of acquiring properties would be an advantage

For an informal discussion about this post please contact Mark James on  01843 577290

This post requires you to have a full driving licence

Interviews will be held in the week commencing 8th April 2024

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Business Development Officer (Kent based)

Employer: Wave Community Bank
Close date: Monday 15/04/2024

Reporting to the Deputy CEO this is a full time position, 37 hours per week, 12-month fixed term contract initially Salary: £26,000 – £28,000 Opportunity to earn more based on performance. Email your CV to Emma Norledge emma.norledge@wavecb.org.uk to apply. Click below for more information and how to apply.

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