Assistant Homes Safety Specialist (Water and Lifts)

Your focus at all times will be on delivering specific compliance-related planned and cyclical work programmes and major improvement projects that protect or improve our homes. Working closely with tenants, senior managers and staff, you’ll be the supporting feature in our team and helping the Home Safety Team to deliver a high-quality service that is in line with the highest of standards.

Key responsibilities

• Escalating and supporting with any compliance issues, helping to make sure risks are effectively recorded, reported, eradicated or managed down to the lowest possible level
• Maintaining robust records to provide a clear and transparent account of performance, taking immediate action or escalating as appropriate any areas of poor performance
• Providing effective management, control methods and performance information to report progress and confirm compliance to relevant standards and key performance targets, taking a lead role in the delivery of Legionella requirements
• Working on compliance-related areas including gas safety inspections and servicing, fire safety management, electrical safety including general periodic testing, asbestos management, and lift servicing as well as taking an active 'hands on' approach in regard to the delivery of legionella, water treatment testing and anti-scalding
• Taking part in a rota system (usually one week in every nine) to provide ad hoc evening and weekend phone support for contractors and tenants when emergency situations arise – you may need to attend emergency work e.g. major fires, floods etc. acting as our representative onsite.

Qualifications, skills & experience

• Experience in supporting and managing compliance-related works, working in a customer-focused organisation - maybe even a housing organisation or something similar
• A background in supporting best value initiatives, and continuous improvement, in a true learning organisation
• Somewhere that you developed an understanding of compliance and housing-related health and safety, and a supporting role and are keen to develop and build on those skills.

How to apply

Have a read of the job description and if you’re excited about this opportunity complete the application form and email it to Recruitment@redkitehousing.org.uk.

If you’d like to have a conversation about the role, please contact Recruitment@redkitehousing.org.uk to arrange a conversation.

35-hour week pilot

We have been piloting a change to our normal full-time, 37-hour 5-day week. Since April 2024 we have been piloting a shorter 35-hour week (for the same pay as before) where staff work a full day Monday to Thursday, and finish the working week at 1pm every Friday. It’s just a pilot at this stage while we evaluate its impact on our staff, our tenants, and the service we provide, but if successful we will consider a permanent move to this way of working in 2026.