Building Safety Officer - Part Time

Job Description

Salary: Up to £15,891 (£41,999 pro rata)Location: Coventry/ Birmingham – HybridBasis: Part TimeWork Pattern: Monday & Tuesday, 14 hours per weekType: PermanentWe are brave, we are ambitious, we are honest, and we are Citizen!We are looking for a Building Safety Officer to join our Fire Safety Team, to work on a wide variety of projects. The Fire Safety Team deliver diverse projects, focusing on Fire Risk Assessment improvements of our buildings.We want someone to join our team who wants to contribute to continually improving building safety to our properties and provide homes that are a foundation for life. In housing you can make a real difference, the role of Building Safety Officer will involve:

• Detailed knowledge of Fire Regulation and Building Control Regulations associated with residential accommodation and social housing.
• Detailed knowledge of Safety legislation and best practice associated with residential accommodation and social housing.
• Experience of managing contractors delivering technical works.
• Experience of managing risk assessment and safety assessment process and procedures.
• Experience of working as part of a team and delivering efficiencies through effective use of new technology and system processes.

As Building Safety Officer, we need you to have:

• Detailed knowledge of Fire regulation and Building Control regulations associated with residential accommodation and social housing.
• Detailed knowledge of Safety legislation and best practice associated with residential accommodation and social housing.

We would be reallyexcited if you have:

• Experience of managing contractors delivering technical work to housing stock
• Experience of managing risk assessment and safety inspection processes and procedures across housing stock
• Experience of working as part of a team and delivering efficiencies through effective use of new technology and systems/processes

Our people are everything and we offer:

• Opportunities for salary progression
• IT equipment to allow some optional home working
• ‘Live work better’ scheme which actively encourages work-life balance
• Annual leave starts at 25 days per year, increasing with length of service
• Enhanced family leave
• Company Pension – Citizen match up to 10%
• Cycle to work
• Annual leave purchase
• Citysave financial support - savings and loans
• MyPerks Benefits portal - Shopping and Discounts, wellbeing, Gyms, Cinemas, discounted days out
• If part of the pension scheme you are entitled to Life cover (three times your annual salary)
• Organisational Sick Pay (benefit increases with length of service)
• EAP – a 24/7 service which gives free, confidential advice and support on a range of issues including telephone counselling
• Medicash scheme -which includes digital Physiotherapy app, retail vouchers and discounts, discounted gym memberships and more!
• Organisational Sick Pay (benefit increases with length of service)
• Recognition through our Employee Excellence Awards
• Representation opportunities on our Staff Consultative Forum
• Access to Citizen’s Wellbeing platform
• Occupational Health
• We believe everyone has something to give and encourage everyone to be the best they can be to reach their full potential with extensive learning and development opportunities and Study Leave

Find out more about our benefits here:Citizen | Benefits (citizenhousing.org.uk)Here at Citizen, our purpose is to provide homes that are a foundation for life.Withoverfifty years of experience, we have grown to be one of the UK’s most trusted social housing providers, Citizen owns and manages 30,000 homes for diverse communities across the West Midlands, from urban tower blocksto rural villages and towns.There are some fundamental challenges people in our communities’ face, and we want to be an organisation which can help them deal with these. So, we are working to solve some of the most pressing issues around housing and homelessness.We adopt a proactive approach to safeguarding to ensure everyone accessing our services can do so without fear of harm, abuse or neglect. As part of our recruitment process, we carry out robust safeguarding checks.This post is subject to aBasicDBS check (Disclosure and Barring Service).Further information on our selection process and Equality and Diversity commitment can be found at www.citizenhousing.org.ukClosing date: Friday 19th July 2024Interview date Monday 29th July 2024Please note we will be reviewing applications throughout the campaign and may invite candidates to interview at any time. We reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published closing date should a suitable candidate be identified.