Landlord and Compliance Specialist

5 Star Recruitment; Taunton; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

5 Star Recruitment is seeking a Landlord and Compliance Specialist to provide technical expertise across property safety, including radon, water safety, asbestos, and related statutory duties.

You will manage a multi-site service, deputise for the Compliance Manager, oversee contracts, and develop digital services to improve client access to asbestos reports and compliance records.

Qualifications

• Experience managing asbestos and water safety compliance programs.
• Knowledge of health and safety legislation (COSHH, HSE acts).
• Ability to manage contracts and budgets.

Responsibilities

• Line manage operational Asbestos Team and provide coaching and mentoring.
• Develop digital services to improve access to compliance records and asbestos reports.
• Maintain and audit asbestos management records and contractor documentation.
• Undertake statutory compliance checks for housing stock and support procurement activities.
• Deputise for Compliance Manager and manage contracts, disputes, and financial approvals.

Skills

Project management

Contract management

Data analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Building Surveying

Tools

MS Office

Project management software

Job description

About the job Landlord and Compliance Specialist

Role title

Landlord and Compliance Specialist

Provide technical expertise to all landlord aspects of property compliance, including radon, water safety, asbestos, and other property safety related matters, including ensuring Best Practice is implemented in the delivery of the service.

Manage the service across numerous sites and ensure resources are deployed effectively.

Ensure that the Councils responsibilities, including the Duty of Care, are carried out in accordance with current Legislation, Government Policy, Regulatory Requirements, approved Codes of Practice, and guidance, and align with the Councils Corporate Plan, Business Plans and Service Plans. Failure to undertake statutory inspections could results in death, injury, structural damage, criminal proceedings, as well as reputational damage for us.

Corporate Responsibilities

Understand, uphold, and promote the aims of the councils equality, diversity, and inclusion policies; health, safety and wellbeing of self and others; and Organisational values in everything you do. Equality and Diversity practice covers both interaction with staff, service users and communities and includes challenging discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity for all.

Operational Service Delivery

Operational responsibility for all landlord property related safety compliance within the Housing Directorate and take pro-active measures to address any areas of non-compliance.

Undertakes statutory compliance checks for the Authoritys housing stock, inspects building structures, determining asbestos strategies following site visits and reviewing building materials used, their suitability for purpose and workmanship of the installers.

Deputise for Compliance Manager, e.g. contract management, disputes, financial approvals and all housing compliance activities.

Strategic Delivery / implementation /Coordination

Advise and contribute to strategic and operational risk management activities.

Develop digital services offering and encouraging customer channel shift reducing demand e.g. direct portal access to compliance records i.e. residential asbestos reports etc

Ensure suitable records are available to contractors and staff visiting premises and an appropriate management record of asbestos management is held and maintained.

Analysis of large quantities of data will be expected to be maintained and monitored from a wide range of input sources, internal and external information is required to be assessed, corrective actions identified and coordinated.

Performance Framework

Assist in setting performance targets, monitor, and report on progress in line with agreed SLAs.

Responsible for asbestos management reports which are provided to SMT and other committees.

Project/Contract Management

Responsible for Asbestos contracts, surveys, removal works, water hygiene contracts and remedial actions. Radon testing and remediation contract, support and assist with refurbishment and demolition planned works.

Financial / Budget responsibility

Responsible for the management of budgets for landlord property safety.

Stakeholder Engagement

Advise Members, Executive Leadership team, senior management, regulatory bodies, support services and cross departmental dependencies.

Responsible for contractors to ensure works are completed on time and within budget.

Team Management

Line Manage operational Asbestos Team, providing performance and absence management, coaching, development and mentoring through formal and informal mechanisms.

Provide property related landlord safety guidance and awareness training to service delivery teams.

Regulation / Statutory compliance

Responsible for ensuring servicing and inspection records, installation certification testing records and surveying records are accurate and up to date.

Assist in the production of Policy and Procedure documents for all landlord property safety compliance areas.

Provide information for internal and external audits.

Support Compliance Manager with procurement activities.

Ensure subject service requests and complaints in relation to landlord property safety, are investigated and the finding(s) acted on E.g. ensuring that there is an asbestos management register as required by the Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 2012. Radon, as required by the Control of Substances to Health Regulations (COSHH) Water Hygiene is also a legal requirement under COSHH with specific guidance on control required within L8.

Ensure all property compliance activities in relation to workstreams allocated comply with all relevant legislation, including the Health and Safety at Work act 1974, Management of Health and Safety Regulations 2002, Defective Premises Act 1972, Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, Housing Act 2004 and Social Housing (Regulations) Act 2023.