Compliance Manager

Deekay Technical Recruitment; Mid Suffolk; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Ipswich Borough Council is seeking a Principal Manager (Maintenance) to lead a safety and compliance across council homes. You will head a dedicated team, ensuring compliance with the regulatory standards to keep tenants safe at all times.

The role focuses on the landlord's big 9 safety items, overseeing continuous improvement and ensuring delivery of high housing standards within a £25m maintenance budget. An opportunity to shape front-line service delivery.

Qualifications

• Significant management experience in a frontline housing/maintenance environment.
• Degree qualification and/or membership of a relevant professional organisation.
• Experience of managing staff and budgets.
• Experience of regulatory requirements for safe homes.
• Experience in business planning, change management and continuous improvement.
• Experience and/or qualifications in Health & Safety.

Responsibilities

• Act as Principal Responsible Manager and lead Officer for council homes safety and compliance.
• Head up safety and compliance team ensuring regulatory standards and tenant safety.
• Oversee landlord's 'big 9' compliance items (Fire, Lifts, Emergency lighting, Alarm systems, Gas, Damp & Mould, Electrical, Asbestos, Water Safety).
• Monitor HHSRS stock condition surveys and ensure compliance with Awaab's Law and Decent Homes.
• Drive continuous improvement and performance in housing services.

Skills

Senior management experience

Staff and budgets management

Health & safety

Change management

Continuous improvement

Regulatory compliance

Education

Degree qualification / professional membership

Job description

The Opportunity

Client: Ipswich BC

Contract: Initial 6 months

Rate: (£53,051 - £55,224 per annum)

Principal Manager (Maintenance) (salary up to £ 55,224)

A senior post at Ipswich Borough Council; in one of its largest front line services.

The Maintenance and Contracts service spends circa. £25 million annually repairing, maintaining and improving a retained housing stock of circa 8,000 properties including 15 sheltered schemes and 4 Homeless Families Units to our local "Ipswich Standard". The Council takes a holistic approach to stock management and has one seamless service that is responsible for everything in connection with the asset management of our homes; to ensure they remain safe and decent at all times.

Housing is a flagship service of Ipswich Borough Council, and it is a service that is vital for our tenants and very much in the public eye - as you would expect with such a range of work

The Principal Manager will be one of six senior management posts within the Maintenance & Contracts service (part of the Housing directorate) dedicated to continuous improvement, efficient services and improving housing standards for our tenants.

You will be expected to head up a safety and compliance team responsible for ensuring Council homes meet all regulatory standards and tenants remain safe in their homes at all times, adopting a zero-tolerance (of failure). approach. This will include responsibility for the landlord's 'big 9' compliance safety items; namely Fire, Lifts (LOLER), Emergency lighting, Alarm systems, Gas, Damp & Mould, Electrical, Asbestos and Water Safety. In addition, you will monitor hazards arising from HHSRS stock condition surveys and outcomes to ensure compliance with Awaab's Law and Decent Homes.

As such, it is a great opportunity to make your mark at Ipswich and develop your career at the Council. Innovation and aspiration are encouraged. The varied workload will enable you to refine your existing skills as well as develop new ones.

Specifically, this post will be responsible for all activities relating to:

Acting as the Principal responsible Manager and lead Officer ensuring Councils homes are compliant and remain safe at all times

About You

The successful candidate will have:

• Significant experience in a comparable environment;
• A degree qualification and/or membership of a relevant professional organisation;
• Experience of managing staff and budgets;
• Experience of the regulatory requirements to maintaining safe homes for the Councils tenants;
• Experience of business planning, change management and continuous improvement in an operational or front-line environment;
• Experience and/or qualifications in Health & Safety