Compliance Advisor - Electrical & Lift Safety
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Published: 6 days ago
Closing in: 4 days
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy.
At Community Housing, our values are at the heart of everything we do. We believe in RESPECT—in how we communicate, deliver services, and support our customers and colleagues. Every team member contributes to our success, helping us create communities where people feel valued and supported. Our mission is to create sustainable, thriving neighbourhoods where people feel safe, respected, and connected.
We are looking for an experienced Safety Compliance Advisor to join our Building Safety Compliance Team. The successful candidate will have principal accountability for managing our electrical and lift safety programmes, ensuring Community Housing remains fully compliant with statutory and regulatory obligations.
This is an exciting opportunity for a compliance professional who is looking to further their career. The candidate will have autonomy to shape compliance disciplines under their control and will be part of a wider team of building safety and health and safety professionals.
The role requires knowledge and expertise in managing electrical and lift safety compliance within the social housing sector, and overseeing cyclical servicing and maintenance programmes. In addition, the postholder will be responsible for managing Portable Appliance Testing (PAT), Electric Vehicle (EV) points, and Solar Photovoltaic (PV) systems, along with other compliance areas as required.
The successful candidate will manage remedial works, ensuring timely completion and accurate record keeping. The successful candidate will also be required to work closely with contractors and internal teams to ensure KPIs are met and budget spend is controlled.
Key Responsibilities:
* Ensure all properties are compliant with regulations and internal policy commitments across electrical safety, lift safety, and other compliance programmes as assigned.
* Manage cyclical inspection and servicing compliance programmes, ensuring they are completed on time.
* Oversee and monitor remedial actions, ensuring timely completion and accurate record keeping.
* Provide technical support and guidance on compliance to colleagues and other key stakeholders.
* Monitor and analyse high volumes of compliance data, ensuring accuracy and promptly reporting any deviations from a compliant position.
* Demonstrable knowledge of relevant legislation, and the regulators' safety and quality standard for social housing.
* Demonstrable knowledge of electrical and lift safety regulations, its application in social housing and relevant policy conditions.
* Demonstrable experience in monitoring, managing, and reporting on property compliance programmes and rectification works.
* Demonstrable experience in data management, data analysis and data reporting.
* Strong communication and contract management skills.
* Strong problem solving, analytical, and autonomous decision making abilities.
* High attention to detail, ensuring compliance data and records are meticulously maintained.
* Hold a relevant qualification in property/building compliance or health and safety.
If this sounds like you, we would love to talk to you about joining Community Housing and the team in this interesting and rewarding role.
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Community Housing was formed in 2000 through a stock transfer from Wyre Forest District Council. We are a social business and one of Worcestershire’s largest Registered Providers of social housing, managing around 6000 homes and offering a range of services that help people to live independently.
We are proud of what we have achieved so far for the people and communities we support. Over the coming years we are focused on helping people to thrive and live independently, knowing they have a secure place they can call home, that they can afford, and with a landlord who cares about them.
Our Corporate Plan will help us to push forward and achieve results for our customers and communities. But even more so, it is our people that will drive our success.
With the right people, with the right skills, knowledge, behaviour, and values we achieve our goals.
When we are looking to recruit, we don’t just look for the best skillset or experience, we are also looking for people who will support our vision and ‘The Community Way’ of doing things.
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