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Based:  Bradford, BD11 DR
Areas Covered: North East England (Middlesbrough areas) and Yorkshire & North West
Hours: Full time – 35 Hours per week (Permanent)
Salary: £46,515
Reporting to: Head of Asset Management
Direct Reports: Repairs Surveyor x2
 

About Us

People come to work for Habinteg because they believe in what matters to us. Inclusion drives all that we do, be that the services we offer to tenants, the environments we create or the homes we deliver. One in four people in this country are disabled but most homes are designed to exclude them. We believe in designing homes and creating neighbourhoods that everyone can share and enjoy.  We have approximately 3200 homes across the country from Tyneside to Cornwall. We are champions of the Lifetime Homes Standard and provide expert training and consultancy through our Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE) in-house team.
 

About the Role
The Senior Repairs Surveyor role will be responsible for the efficient and effective delivery of maintenance in the Northern region. You will have two repairs inspectors reporting to you each covering different areas in the North East, and Yorkshire & North West. Your role will be to ensure that we are providing a good service in all aspects of responsive, cyclical, and major repairs to tenanted and void properties. You will also be managing maintenance contractors in line with our contract management framework including any performance improvement areas. The role will also be responsible for ensuring that we comply with accessibility standards, monitor budgets, whilst never compromising on H&S regulations.

 

About You
We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Senior Repairs Surveyor to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will play a crucial part in ensuring  the smooth delivery of our repairs and maintenance service, contributing to the overall wellbeing of our tenants. You will be up to date with current building and H&S legislations, as well as a sound understanding in procurement routes in Housing.

The ideal candidate will possess a HNC in construction or building, able to draft tender documents and you will have an advantage if you are able to prepare basic construction drawings and specifications

Excellent customer care and communication skills are essential for this role. You will need to be calm in your nature and confident in your practices. There will be travel involved and the occasional emergency call out so a clean driving license is essential as well as a clear enhanced DBS.

Benefits

• Comprehensive dental & health plan through Simply Health
• A fantastic pension set-up where we will match your contribution up to 10%
• Annual leave starts from 25 days increasing to 28 + one bonus Habinteg day off each year.
• Various development and growth opportunities
• Cycle to work scheme
• Simply Rewards (through Simply Health)
• A flexible, supportive and inclusive working environment

Interested? Check-out the full job description  Senior Repairs Surveyor- Job Description 2022.docx [docx] 33KB

Closing date: The position will remain open until filled so don’t delay submitting your application!  
Interview date: We will interview throughout the advertising period.
 

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We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and welcome candidates with disabilities, long-term health conditions to apply for our roles. We encourage jobseekers from all backgrounds and experiences to express their interest, and to contact us at recruitment@habinteg.org.uk if you would like to chat to us or discuss reasonable adjustments for your application or interview process. 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the HR department:
E-mail: recruitment@habinteg.org.uk
Tel: 020 7822 8700

Based: Scheme office in area if operation With hybrid working
Hours: Full time 35 hours/week, site-based role.
Salary: £48,389.99

Travel: The successful candidate will frequently travel to each scheme and should be comfortable with a hybrid way of working and travelling to different sites. A valid driving license and personal vehicle is essential.

About the Role

You will lead our housing management team in the South London and the South East, ensuring we provide a great service for our tenants. Our housing in the South London and the Southeast ranges from accessible general needs properties to a specialist housing schemes, and the area takes in South and South East London, Surrey, Kent and East Sussex.

You will manage a dispersed team delivering all our local housing management services and will be expected to achieve stretching and ambitious targets. Tenant engagement is key to Habinteg’s success, and you will be responsible to leading on engagement initiatives.  

Travel: There will be an element of remote/home working for this role, however the successful candidate will need to travel on a frequent basis and have a visible presence on their patch and to undertake mandatory compliance checks. A valid driving license and personal vehicle is essential. Mileage is paid at £0.45 per mile and is calculated from office to office.  

About You

You will be an experienced housing professional, with extensive experience of generic housing management in the social housing sector. You will have excellent management and leadership skills and be able to demonstrate an understanding and commitment to Habinteg’s inclusive housing mission.

You will need to show a track record of achievement and ambition, both in your previous roles and in your own personal development.

You will be flexible and agile in your approach, being able to adapt your approach to different circumstances and service demands.

You will need great written and verbal communication skills. You will be expected to contribute to the development of policy and practice, skills in these areas are required.

The role requires the ability to drive and access to a car. Occasional overnight stays and working outside usual office hours will also be required.

Finally, make sure to read all about us. If you’re looking to work for a company that makes a difference to society, we might just be the place for you.  

We understand that one person can’t always meet every area of a job description so if you are interested and feel you may be suitable, please do get in touch or apply using the details below.

For a Full job description email recruitment@habinteg.org.uk

Closing date: Monday 20 November 2023 
Interview date: TBC

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and welcome candidates with disabilities, long-term health conditions to apply for our roles. We encourage job-seekers from all backgrounds and experiences to express their interest, and to contact us at recruitment@habinteg.org.uk if you would like to chat to us or discuss reasonable adjustments for your application or interview process. 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the HR department:

E-mail: recruitment@habinteg.org.uk

Apply now 

Based: Bradford office with Hybrid working   Hours: Full time, 35 hours per week  Salary: £28,146 Contract: Permanent  About Us People come to work for Habinteg because they believe in what matters to us. Inclusion drives all that we do, be that the services we offer to tenants, the environments we create or the homes we deliver. One in four people in this country are disabled but most homes are designed to exclude them. We believe in designing homes and creating neighbourhoods that everyone can share and enjoy.  We have approximately 3200 homes across the country from Tyneside to Cornwall. We are champions of the Lifetime Homes Standard and provide expert training and consultancy through our Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE) in-house team. About the Role This role sits within Habinteg’s Customer & Building Safety Team to provide invaluable support to the Compliance Contracts Managers in the smooth running of various building safety compliance programmes and contracts. The aim of the role is to ensure we maintain compliant so that the business meets its statutory landlord compliance obligations in areas such as water safety, asbestos, fire safety, electrical safety, gas safety and lift maintenance. Keeping our tenants safe is our priority so you will need to be able to prioritise your work well and complete compliance checks on time and recorded accurately on our internal programmes, C365 and Active-H. We will also look to you for support with commissioning planned, periodic compliance checks for maintaining safety equipment in residential blocks and individual properties. This will be part and parcel in keeping our contractors, suppliers, tenants, and clients well-informed at all times. About You We’re looking for someone who can bring experience of delivering exceptional customer service and a background of working in a regulated environment. You’ll have a proven ability to produce and present data and explain it in simple, written terms to others and be comfortable working in a high-pressure environment, successfully juggling multiple competing priorities. Highly numerate and data savvy, you will be highly organised and efficient, ensuring all administrative tasks are complete. You will be able to provide timely, accurate reports, and highlight any anomalies. A good understanding of executing basic functions in Microsoft Excel, Outlook and Word, and ideally with experience in housing management systems and databases, you will be a clear and confident communicator who can deliver messages in a respectful manner. To apply please visit: Work for us | Habinteg Housing Association  and register on our recruitment portal.  Full Job Description:  Compliance Support Officer - Job Description.docx [docx] 32KB  If you are passionate about compliance and looking for the next step in your career, please get in touch. Closing date:  This position will remain open until filled so don't delay submitting your application! We understand that one person can’t always meet every area of a job description so if you are interested and feel you may be suitable, please do get in touch or apply using the details below. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and welcome candidates with disabilities, long-term health conditions to apply for our roles. We encourage job-seekers from all backgrounds and experiences to express their interest, and to contact us at recruitment@habinteg.org.uk if you would like to chat to us or discuss reasonable adjustments for your application or interview process.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the HR department by emailing: recruitment@habinteg.org.uk Apply now

Based: London/Bradford with hybrid working, required in London office four times a month (minimum)
Hours: Full time – 35 Hours per week 
Salary: £45,000
Contract: Three year fixed term contract starting January 2024 - Dec 2026

Direct Reports:

• Campaigns & Engagement officer (Full time)
• Parliamentary & Policy officer (PT)

About us

Habinteg’s mission is to champion inclusion by providing accessible homes and neighbourhoods that welcome and include everyone, using our expert knowledge to inspire and influence decision makers. A third of the homes we provide are designed to meet the needs of wheelchair users and our schemes – from Tyneside to Cornwall - provide sustainable, inclusive neighbourhoods for disabled and non-disabled people to share and enjoy. As champions of inclusive housing design, we engage regularly with politicians, policy advisers and other stakeholders to help increase the number of accessible homes built across all sectors.

Job Purpose

To lead and manage Habinteg’s public affairs and campaigning activity aiming to improve the Housing experience of disabled people in England. We aim to strengthen our impact through engagement with a variety of stakeholders including MPs across all parties, ministers and government departments, local authority officers and elected representatives, disabled people’s organisations and individuals, as well as other like-minded organisations.

This role is grant funded by the Oak Foundation and will significantly enhance the reach and impact of Habinteg’s well respected influencing voice.

Role description

Stakeholder engagement:

• To plan and lead delivery of engagement with key stakeholders within national, regional and local government;
• To devise, promote and deliver stakeholder events to deepen understanding about the importance of accessible housing and support robust planning and good practice;
• To build Habinteg’s Insight Group (tenants and other interested disabled people), growing it as network of people with lived experience to take action and convey the case for change;
• To represent Habinteg at events and meetings;
• To support Habinteg’s role as co-chair of the Housing Made for Everyone Coalition, and other collaborative groups.

Policy monitoring and analysis

• To ensure that Habinteg stays well informed about policy developments that impact on disabled people’s housing experience;
• Providing policy analysis and draft key messaging for Habinteg responses when required;
• Provide written and oral briefings to colleagues on policy developments and their impact.

Collaborative planning

• To work with the Communications and Marketing manager, other team members and disabled stakeholders to develop and execute creative integrated communications and engagement plans;
• To develop research proposals to help make the case for accessible homes and support best practice and lead colleagues or external suppliers to deliver research activity and resulting publications and campaign resources;
• To generate original content ideas and material such as reports, blogs and news story proposals;
• To develop working relationships with like-minded organisations in order to collaborate and strengthen impact around common goals.

For a full Job description please contact recruitment@habinteg.org.uk

Closing date: Sunday 26 November 2023 

To apply please visit: Habinteg Careers

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and welcome candidates with disabilities, long-term health conditions to apply for our roles. We encourage jobseekers from all backgrounds and experiences to express their interest, and to contact us at recruitment@habinteg.org.uk if you would like to chat to us or discuss reasonable adjustments for your application or interview process. 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the HR department:
E-mail: recruitment@habinteg.org.uk
Tel: 020 7822 8700

Apply now 

Base: Flexible, with regular presence in our Central London Head Office ( at least 4 times per month)
Hours: Full-time 35hrs p/w
Contract: Three year fixed term contract starting January 2024
Salary: £30,000

About us 

People come to work for Habinteg because they believe in what matters to us. Inclusion drives all that we do, be that the services we offer to tenants, the environments we create or the homes we deliver. One in four people in this country are disabled but most homes are designed to exclude them. We believe in designing homes and creating neighbourhoods' that everyone can share and enjoy.  We have 3200 homes across the country from Tyneside to Cornwall. We are champions of the Lifetime Homes Standard and provide expert training and consultancy through our Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE) in-house team.

About the Role 

We are looking for an experienced risk and assurance professional with extensive knowledge of risk management at a strategic and operational level and experience of supporting a business in building and embedding a culture around evidence-based assurance.

You will have exceptional communications, collaboration, and influencing skills with the ability to build relationships across teams and departments. And you will have a proven understanding of how risk management and assurance activities support strategic success.

As you will work closely with, and support team colleagues in Governance, Health & Safety, Business Continuity, Insurance and Performance Management, experience or knowledge of these functions would be desirable as would experience in the housing sector.

Job Purpose

To build relationships with disabled people and disabled people’s organisations in England to engage them in Habinteg’s campaign activity in order to improve the provision of accessible and inclusive housing.

We aim to increase the range of lived experience represented in our campaigning work by developing active relationships with people with diverse backgrounds including disabled people from black and minoritised ethnic communities.

This role is grant funded by the Oak Foundation and will significantly enhance the reach and impact of Habinteg’s well respected influencing voice.

Role

We are looking for a new member of our team to join us in this exciting opportunity to make a difference.

- To devise and facilitate campaigning activity in line with Habinteg’s influencing strategy, targeting national and local policy change goals;

- To proactively research and develop active relationships with disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) in England, engaging them in campaign activity;

- To identify and build relationships with individual disabled people with relevant lived experience to engage them in campaign activity;

- Support individual disabled people to engage with national and local politicians and decision makers, offering training and coaching as required;

- To support individual disabled people to engage with the media to help drive awareness and understanding of the need for accessible homes and the policy changes required;

- To plan and deliver online and in person events to help build and up-skill a network of accessible housing campaigners in support of Habinteg’s strategic influencing goals;

- To plan and co-ordinate engagement and collaboration with disabled people and relevant DPOs to help formulate campaign messages, campaign action plans and responses to policy proposals, including arranging meetings, agendas and taking minutes and actions;

- To support Habinteg’s role as co-chair of the Housing Made for Everyone (HoME) coalition, along with any other formal organisational partnerships, this will include attending meetings, taking minutes and engaging with disabled people where needed to deliver on agreed activity;

- To work with the Public Affairs and Engagement Manager and other Communications Team colleagues to devise proposals for new research and reports to support the case for more accessible homes;

- To generate campaign content including blogs, campaign articles, newsletters and social media posts;

- To collaborate with communications team colleagues to produce compelling media releases, videos and other material for publication;

- To devise, commission and disseminate campaign materials and toolkits to enable action and engagement of individual campaigners as well as other organisations.

For a full Job description please contact recruitment@habinteg.org.uk

Closing date: Sunday 26 November 2023

To apply please visit: Habinteg Careers

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and welcome candidates with disabilities, long-term health conditions to apply for our roles. We encourage jobseekers from all backgrounds and experiences to express their interest, and to contact us at recruitment@habinteg.org.uk if you would like to chat to us or discuss reasonable adjustments for your application or interview process. 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the HR department:
E-mail: recruitment@habinteg.org.uk
Tel: 020 7822 8700

Apply now