Total 9 Quality Assurance / Control job vacancies in castleford wf10 2al

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Salary: Band 15 - £72,164 - £80,655 p.a.

37 hours per week

Permanent

We have a fantastic opportunity for an exceptional individual to join us as our Head of Compliance!

The newly created Head of Compliance role is within Building Services of the Housing, Neighbourhood and Building Services Directorate. The service is responsible for the ongoing repair, maintenance and statutory compliance of our stock of over 15,000 Council homes, 2,000 leasehold properties as well as our general fund assets with landlord repair and compliance responsibility located in Portsmouth and the surrounding areas.

The role sits in a new service area within the Directorate and whilst some of the roles are in place, you will play an important role in recruiting to and shaping the new service area, providing strategic leadership, developing and implementing new strategies and polices, and managing a period of significant change.

The majority of our housing stock was constructed in the 1950's and 1960's but we have a diverse portfolio with properties ranging from the Victorian era to new build properties alongside an ongoing development programme consisting of over 500 homes in the pipeline.

Nearly a third of the stock is of non-traditional construction and we have 22 blocks classified as taller buildings under the Building Safety Act. We have recently completed a stock transfer, acquiring over 800 properties expanding our stock holding within Havant, Gosport, Fareham and Winchester.

Our general fund assets represent a diverse portfolio including high profile buildings such Southsea Castle and the Spinnaker Tower alongside a range of buildings supporting client directorates in the operation of their services.

Due to the stock profile and age, alongside increasing regulation and new legalisation, we are at a pivotal point in the strategic management of our stock. With limited opportunities to increase the funding envelope alongside increasing demand it will be vital that you are able to drive efficiency in how our compliance activities are undertaken whilst ensuring that resident and building user safety is your number one priority.

You will need to have a sound understanding of legalisation relevant to the service area, in particular the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023, acting as the strategic lead to ensure compliance activities meet with requirements of the legalisation.

You will report to the Assistant Director of Building Services and play a key role in the senior management team working closely with other Heads of Service within Building Services and more widely across the Directorate. You will provide strategic leadership in the development of Building Services along with high-level support and advice to members.

We pride ourselves on our cross working with other Directorates within the Council and you will need to develop effective relationships with a of key Corporate stakeholders within our Economy, Transport & Planning; Culture, Leisure & Regulatory Services; and Education.

Whilst the service area is being developed, below is a high-level summary of the core functions that sit under the Head Compliance:

Building Safety - responsible for ensuring that duties required under the Building Safety Act 2022 are met. This includes the preparation of Building Safety Cases for our taller buildings, undertaking of FRA's for all relevant buildings and the management of actions arising from them.

Compliance - responsible for ensuring all statutory compliance duties are met. Management of our gas servicing & repairs contract as well as our commercial mechanical & electrical servicing and repairs contract. Also within this service area are Water Hygiene, Asbestos, Lift servicing & repair and building Health & Safety.

The role will be challenging, however, it represents an exciting opportunity to play a significant part in shaping the future direction of the Councils housing stock and bring change and modernisation to the service to ensure a safer portfolio.

If you would like to informally discuss this role with Adam Hardwick - Assistant Director Buildings, please contact Jane Evans via 023 9243 7766 or jane.evans@portsmouthcc.gov.uk to arrange a convenient time for a call.

Please click HERE for the full job pack! This contains all details of the role and the person we are looking for!

When completing the application form, please thoroughly tailor your application to the 'Who is the Person' points of the job profile within the job pack, with the use of examples from your experience and attach this as a cover letter in the Supporting Documents section. This is really important or you are likely not to be shortlisted.

Please also include:

• Employment history including:
  • Employer
  • Employment dates
  • Reason for leaving
  • A brief explanation of any gaps in your employment history
• References, including current or most recent employer. Let us know when we can contact your references - for example if you want us to wait until after your interview.

Application Closing Date - Midday on Monday 16th September 2024

Assessment Centre - shortlisted candidates will be required to attend an Assessment Centre in Portsmouth on Thursday 26th September 2024

Final Interviews - successful candidates from the Assessment Centre will be invited to an interview at a convenient time week commencing 30th September 2024

We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.

We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:

• A generous pension scheme
• Relocation scheme may be available for the right candidate
• Up to 31 days annual leave per year pro rata + bank holidays
• A range of retail discounts via our reward portal offering discounts at retailers including IKEA, Currys, Tesco
• Free Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellbeing support
• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships
• Potential to purchase additional annual leave
• Business travel support and initiatives, including bike loans

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Salary: Band 5 - £24,362 - £26,073 p.a.

Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week

Contract: Permanent

The Service:

The Regulatory Services Team is responsible for delivering a wide variety of statutory functions including, pest control services, the assessment of air quality air, port health border controls and sampling, health and safety, food hygiene and standards, animal welfare, communicable diseases, statutory nuisance, environmental health, rogue and fraudulent traders, fair trading, product safety, intellectual property crime, age restricted sales, petroleum, explosive safety, community funerals, the licensing of hackney carriage and private hire operators, vehicles and drivers, the licensing of premises and persons under the Licensing Act 2003 and gambling premises under the Gambling Act 2005.

The 'administrative family' carries out the 'core business' of the wider team whilst providing specialist advice and guidance to a wide and diverse range of contacts.

What is the role?

The purpose of a Compliance Liaison Officer is to provide support all compliance teams within the service and to be the first point of contact for all customers. The challenge of this role is to support customers to achieve high standards of regulatory and licencing compliance and maintain efficient delivery of service functions.

The day to day duties of the role will include:

• actively working as part of a team and support the delivery of Regulatory and Licensing frontline services via the process of a wide variety of administrative processes.

• interacting with a wide variety of customers such as those registering complaints for investigation, applying for licenses or services, registering business activities etc.

• processing and providing accurate information to customers and promoting the range of services and access channel options available to customers.

• ensuring that enquiries are handled following detailed departmental process and are delivered in line with legislative requirements.

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Who is the person?

Ideally the post holder will have:

• an operational understanding of several key Regulatory and Licensing Service functions.

• a knowledge of the administrative functions likely to be undertaken in a Regulatory Service and Licensing authority enforcement team.

• excellent communication skills, delivering messages clearly so that they cannot be misunderstood.

• abilities to ensure that any information or situations are handled in a respectful manner without escalation.

• an aptitude for being decisive, making decisions and using discretion - considering the most appropriate course of action outside key policy / process criteria.

• abilities to deliver flexible service delivery requirements - including the participation on duty rotas and positively engaging in service and internal policy changes.

• a understanding of how poor decision making may impact of service / senior officers and what constitutes poor decision making.

• an understanding of how personal information / sensitive information needs to be managed and the implications of not doing so in accordance with legislative requirements.

• good knowledge of computer software packages.

• accountancy skills.

• previous experience in an administrative role.

• have a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.

• integrity, an ability to motivate others and work with others, and retain a positive attitude towards problem solving / delivering service solutions / improving complex problems.

• An aptitude for being self-motivated as there will be occasions when you are working on your own / or with limited supervision.

When completing the application form, please thoroughly tailor your application to the 'Who is the Person' points with the use of examples from your experience and attach this as a cover letter in the Supporting Documents section. This is really important or you are likely not to be shortlisted. Please click HERE for the full job profile!

Closing date: 26th August 2024

We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.

We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:

• A generous pension scheme
• Up to 31 days annual leave per year pro rata + bank holidays
• We offer flexible working options including hybrid working with a minimum of two days office based per week pro rata, giving you the flexibility to work up to three days at home every week. Hybrid working is dependent on the role and service needs, exact details will be discussed with you at interview.
• A range of retail discounts via our reward portal offering discounts at retailers including IKEA, Currys, Tesco
• Free Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellbeing support
• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships
• Potential to purchase additional annual leave
• Business travel support and initiatives, including bike loans

Please click here for all the benefits of working with us!

Salary: Band 13 - £57,578 - £64,473 p.a.

Permanent

Full-time

Location: Role is office based however you will need to travel as required between PCC Assets in Portsmouth, Havant, Gosport, Fareham and Winchester

We are seeking an individual to lead our Compliance team in our newly formed Compliance service within Building Services of the Housing, Neighbourhood and Building Services Directorate.

The role will have responsibility for ensuring that the Council meet its statutory compliance duties to its stock of nearly 17,000 HRA residential dwellings and 900 corporate assets. The post holder will be responsible for management of teams undertaking compliance activities in relation to;

• Gas servicing and repairs
• Asbestos management
• Water quality
• Building Health and Safety
• Lift servicing and repair
• Mechanical & electrical servicing and repair

The role will also assume responsibility for ensuring policies and procedures are in place across Building Services and that they are implemented so that statutory responsibilities are met with the safety of residents, members of the public, staff and our buildings being maintained.

The role will hold responsibility for the overall management of all mechanical and electrical servicing and repair contracts, ensuring that contracts are suitably procured and managed, delivering a high service and providing value for money.

What is the role?

• To ensure that PCC meet its statutory compliance duties to its HRA residential stock of nearly 17,000 dwellings and 900 corporate assets.
• To manage and develop staff responsible for the management of compliance activities and relevant strategic repair contract
• To work to continually improve the service and strive for 100% compliance in all service areas.
• To ensure that compliance certification and documentation is accurate, robust and suitably stored to evidence compliance.
• To ensure robust management of staff and service budgets within your area, c.£10m per annum.
• To develop, implement, monitor and review policies and procedures in relation to compliance activities within the scope of the role.
• To remain up to date with changes to legislation and the wider industry to ensure that PCC are meeting its statutory duties, ensuring the ongoing safety of residents, members of the public and staff accessing its Buildings.
• To facilitate training and support to across Building Services and the wider HNB directorate to ensure staff have a relevant understanding of compliance activities and their duties under within their role.
• To lead the procurement of strategic service contracts and frameworks relevant to the compliance service area ensuring that suitable contractor and consultant resources are in place to meet the operational needs of the service.
• To ensure that effective management of all mechanical & electrical service and repair contracts is undertaken to meet our statutory compliance requirements and ensure ongoing operation of buildings.
• To work with Assistant Directors and other Heads of Service to ensure that effective compliance activities, servicing and repairs are undertaken to support their service delivery needs.
• To work with the Head of Compliance and Head of Asset Management to inform where servicing and repair compliance demand may inform capital works programmes.
• To provide advice as necessary across Building Services and the wider Council as necessary around compliance activities and related repairs.
• To ensure that both HRA assets and General Fund assets are meeting service and customer needs whilst being economically sustainable.
• Keep up to date with changes in the industry and stock to be able to effectively horizon scan to identify emergent issues and ensure a suitable response.
• To assume the role of the Responsible Person/Deputy Responsible Person for PCC with regard to Water Safety.

Who is the person?

The ideal candidate is someone who will:

1. Have a relevant property related degree and be a Chartered Member of the RICS / CIBSE / CMIOSH or other relevant professional body with post Chartership experience. Where candidates are not Chartered or hold lower qualifications, they should be able to demonstrate substantial relevant experience in a similar role.
2. Preferably have a relevant Health and Safety qualification such as an IOSH Certificate or Diploma.
3. Have an excellent working knowledge of relevant compliance legalisation and guidance, with specific regards to The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012, Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, Lift Regulations 2016, Gas Safety (Installations and Use) Regulations 1998, The Building Regulations and relevant Approved Documents.
4. Have experience of preparing and developing strategies, policies and guidance documents to ensure compliance with statutory functions.
5. Have excellent technical knowledge of compliance areas within the scope of the role, being able to provide professional advice to others.
6. Have knowledge and experience recording and analysing compliance data on relevant compliance IT systems, using measures to monitor performance and inform service improvement.
7. Have experience of leading and managing teams and services, including continual improvement of both staff and service delivery.
8. Have experience of procurement and management of strategic service contracts, ideally with knowledge of the NEC4 Term Service Contract suite.
9. Have experience of managing significant budgets including monitoring and cost control techniques to ensure services are delivered within available budgets.
10. Experience of managing significant change within an organisation, ensuring that adequate resources are in place and that plans are clearly communicated with staff and key stakeholders to ensure understanding and successful implementation.
11. Experience of working with and communicating with a wide range of stakeholders including Directors, Assistant Directors, and other senior staff across the council and external organisations, undertaking presentations and leading meetings as appropriate.
12. Personally demonstrate, develop and lead your service in accordance with the value and behaviours set out in the PCC Behaviour Framework.
13. Have a driving licence and provide a car for work to be able to effectively travel to assets as necessary.

If you have any questions or would like to have an informal chat about the role please contact Patrick Leggett (Head of Capital Projects) on 07507 966572 or patrick.leggett@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

When completing the application form, please thoroughly tailor your application to the 'Who is the Person' points with the use of examples from your experience and attach this as a cover letter in the Supporting Documents section. This is really important or you are likely not to be shortlisted. Please click HERE for the full job profile!

Closing date: 14th August 2024

We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.

We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:

• A generous pension scheme
• Up to 31 days annual leave per year pro rata + bank holidays
• We offer flexible working options including hybrid working with a minimum of two days office based per week pro rata, giving you the flexibility to work up to three days at home every week. Hybrid working is dependant on the role and service needs, exact details will be discussed with you at interview.
• A range of retail discounts via our reward portal offering discounts at retailers including IKEA, Currys, Tesco
• Free Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellbeing support
• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships
• Potential to purchase additional annual leave
• Business travel support and initiatives, including bike loans

Please click here for all the benefits of working with us!

Salary: Band 9, £36,647 to £40,220 per annum

Hours: Full time (37 hours per week)

Contract: Permanent

Closing date: Monday 22 July 2024, 23:59

Assessment Centre in Portsmouth on Thursday 1 August 2024, and interviews on 1, 5 or 6 August 2024, to be agreed with candidate

Why come to live and work in Portsmouth?

Portsmouth is a great waterfront city and a vibrant place to live and work. It is an island city with an “inner city” feel, a seaside location packed with attractions and events, and the advantage of fantastic countryside on its doorstep. With fast road and rail links to London, Brighton and major airports, and ferry links to Europe, it is the perfect place to live and work. Portsmouth has a strong history of partnership working and has successfully integrated several local services.

Your New Role:

You will ensure that Portsmouth City Council meets its statutory compliance duties to its HRA residential stock, and that Legionella Risk Assessments are in place for all relevant buildings and installations and are regularly reviewed and updated. You will provide advice to designers, technical professionals and contractors when designing and installing new or amended water installations. You will develop, implement, monitor and review policies and procedures in relation to Water Hygiene compliance activities, and manage data, documentation and certification in relation to Water Hygiene Compliance. You will work to continually improve the service and strive for 100% compliance in all service areas. You will facilitate training and support across Building Services, remain up to date with changes to legislation and the wider industry, and support the procurement of consultants, service providers and contractors.

Please read the job profile for the full details of this role.

What you'll need to succeed:

You have a qualification in Water Hygiene or other suitable engineering field, together with relevant practical experience in a similar role. You have an excellent working knowledge of applicable legislation and guidance, and experience of preparing and developing policies and guidance documents to ensure compliance with statutory requirements. You have technical knowledge of water systems and experience of preparing and undertaking Legionella Risk Assessments.

You have experience of using relevant data management systems and managing consultants and contractors. You have excellent communication skills and personally demonstrate, develop and work in accordance with the value and behaviours set out in the PCC Behaviour Framework. You have a driving licence and use of a car for work.

Please read the job profile for the full details of this role.

You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.

What you'll get in return:

We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:

• Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
• Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme
• Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme
• Discounts on a wide range of goods and services – access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.

Staff rewards: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/working-for-the-council/

Additional Information:

The full job profile is attached here.

Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:

If you have any questions about the application or the interview process please contact Patrick Leggett, Head of Capital Projects, on the details below.

Telephone: 075 07 966 572
Email: Patrick.Leggett@Portsmouthcc.gov.uk

A commitment to our values:

We are committed to our values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity and being people-focussed. These values set out how we can contribute to the success of the council and our own success as individuals. Learn more about our values and behaviours.

Application process:

We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.

Remember to demonstrate in your cover letter/statement why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Please upload a detailed cover letter/statement as well as your CV.

Please ensure you provide your full education history from secondary school, include name/address of establishment, details of relevant qualifications & awarding body. Please explain any gaps.

You may wish to attach an additional letter or document to supplement your application.

We may close this advert early if we receive many applications of a good standard.

We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.

We look forward to speaking with you soon.

Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.