Total 3 job vacancies by Brook Street

Quantity Surveyor

Sector and Setting: Specialist social care provider with a key focus supporting adults with enduring mental health needs
Location: Birmingham and Surrounding Area
Salary: £44,500 - £56,000

Are you an experienced and detail-oriented Quantity Surveyor looking for a new challenge? Join our dynamic, established provider and work on meaningful projects involving home adaptations funded through the Disability Facilities Grant (DFG).

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and oversee quantity surveying tasks for residential adaptations and housing projects.
• Ensure compliance with the DFG framework, building regulations, and health & safety standards.
• Provide accurate cost estimates and manage project budgets.
• Communicate technical details effectively to non-specialist stakeholders, including disabled clients and their families.

Essential Requirements:

• Education: Degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, or a related field.
• Professional Accreditation: RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) or CIOB (Chartered Institute of Building) membership preferred.
• Experience: Proven experience in quantity surveying roles, preferably in residential adaptations, housing projects, or DFG-funded schemes.
• Skills: Strong understanding of the DFG framework, building regulations, and health & safety standards for disabled adaptations. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Proficient in MS Office, project management software, and cost-estimating tools such as CostX or similar.

If you are passionate about making a difference and have the required skills and experience, we would love to hear from you!

Apply Now for immediate consideration and work for a provider who is committed to making a meaningful difference in the lives of the people they support.

Property Services Manager
Salary £27,000
35 Hours Mon-Fri - Flexible between 9am-6.30pm
Permanent

We are recruiting for a Property Services Manager for our client based in Bradford who provide a range of hostel, supported housing, floating support and other services to vulnerable communities. This role would be to oversee intensive housing management functions across the accommodation services.

Duties to include:
" To be the safeguarding and health and safety lead
" Conducting health and safety visits to properties alongside the tenancy management officer (TMO's) and support staff at each service in delivering their role/responsibility. To identify any health and safety or safeguarding issues and work to resolve with the relevant teams. Working closely with Service Managers(SM) and Team Leaders (TL) to initiative improvements, where necessary.
" In partnership with SM's or TL's, to liaise with our landlord partners when taking on new properties and ensuring that all paperwork and health and safety standards are met, including any repairs carried out.
" To ensure stock condition surveys, pictures/videos are taken and any new leased accommodation standards checks are completed in conjunction with SM's or TL's and all paperwork is uploaded to relevant accommodation folders, before leases are signed by Heads of Service (HOS).
" To ensure maintenance spreadsheets are audited on a weekly basis and any issues identified are followed through with the relevant team until works are signed off.
" To ensure any risk assessments associated with accommodation and or office spaces are reviewed in line with policies and procedures and any issues identified are resolved within timescales.
" To assist HOS in ensuring that we are complying with all quality assurance by auditing our practices annually, relating to BQAF and SHIP standards.
" To work with the business operations officer to complete annual CHAS accreditation and work with HOS to ensure any other accreditation's are carried out.
" To review IHM related policies and procedures as per the timetable for policy reviews.
" To review all IHM practices regularly in partnership with the SM's and TL's in order to raise standards at scheme level.
" To assess how effective our health and safety, fire and safeguarding practices are being delivered at scheme level. Reporting to HOS with any solutions before implementing appropriate changes.
" Must be willing to work flexibly and cover holidays and sickness. Covering for colleagues sometimes at short notice.
The ideal candidate will have the following skills:
1. To have strong leadership skills - to be able to lead from the front. Deploying resources effectively and efficiently in order to meet business objectives and fulfil team performance targets.

2. Team Building - Raising morale and ensuring that everyone is doing their bit to pull as a team and ensure that quality services are being delivered in a fair and consistent manner.

3. Effective support - to be able to guide and support staff in delivering a high standard of intensive housing management services.

4. To apply effective problem solving skills and initiating a project management approach that identifies a problem, apply a solution, implement and monitor effectiveness.

5. To apply strong communication skills that clarifies work tasks and expectations of role/responsibility.

6. To be able to respond to crisis and emergency situations in a calm and responsive manner.

7. To promote health and safety and safeguarding at every level in terms of accommodation, staff, service users and the working environment.

8. To work collaboratively within the management team to ensure that management performance targets and business objectives across the organisation are fulfilled within clear timeless.

If this is the role for you then please forward your CV to apply

Property Services Manager
Salary £27,000
35 Hours Mon-Fri - Flexible between 9am-6.30pm
Permanent

We are recruiting for a Property Services Manager for our client based in Bradford who provide a range of hostel, supported housing, floating support and other services to vulnerable communities. This role would be to oversee intensive housing management functions across the accommodation services.

Duties to include:
" To be the safeguarding and health and safety lead
" Conducting health and safety visits to properties alongside the tenancy management officer (TMO's) and support staff at each service in delivering their role/responsibility. To identify any health and safety or safeguarding issues and work to resolve with the relevant teams. Working closely with Service Managers(SM) and Team Leaders (TL) to initiative improvements, where necessary.
" In partnership with SM's or TL's, to liaise with our landlord partners when taking on new properties and ensuring that all paperwork and health and safety standards are met, including any repairs carried out.
" To ensure stock condition surveys, pictures/videos are taken and any new leased accommodation standards checks are completed in conjunction with SM's or TL's and all paperwork is uploaded to relevant accommodation folders, before leases are signed by Heads of Service (HOS).
" To ensure maintenance spreadsheets are audited on a weekly basis and any issues identified are followed through with the relevant team until works are signed off.
" To ensure any risk assessments associated with accommodation and or office spaces are reviewed in line with policies and procedures and any issues identified are resolved within timescales.
" To assist HOS in ensuring that we are complying with all quality assurance by auditing our practices annually, relating to BQAF and SHIP standards.
" To work with the business operations officer to complete annual CHAS accreditation and work with HOS to ensure any other accreditation's are carried out.
" To review IHM related policies and procedures as per the timetable for policy reviews.
" To review all IHM practices regularly in partnership with the SM's and TL's in order to raise standards at scheme level.
" To assess how effective our health and safety, fire and safeguarding practices are being delivered at scheme level. Reporting to HOS with any solutions before implementing appropriate changes.
" Must be willing to work flexibly and cover holidays and sickness. Covering for colleagues sometimes at short notice.
The ideal candidate will have the following skills:
1. To have strong leadership skills - to be able to lead from the front. Deploying resources effectively and efficiently in order to meet business objectives and fulfil team performance targets.

2. Team Building - Raising morale and ensuring that everyone is doing their bit to pull as a team and ensure that quality services are being delivered in a fair and consistent manner.

3. Effective support - to be able to guide and support staff in delivering a high standard of intensive housing management services.

4. To apply effective problem solving skills and initiating a project management approach that identifies a problem, apply a solution, implement and monitor effectiveness.

5. To apply strong communication skills that clarifies work tasks and expectations of role/responsibility.

6. To be able to respond to crisis and emergency situations in a calm and responsive manner.

7. To promote health and safety and safeguarding at every level in terms of accommodation, staff, service users and the working environment.

8. To work collaboratively within the management team to ensure that management performance targets and business objectives across the organisation are fulfilled within clear timeless.

If this is the role for you then please forward your CV to apply