Disrepair Surveyor

**The role**

Managing over 77,000 homes, Southern Housing is dedicated to delivering excellent services and improving our resilience. We are also keen to build new homes and grow our organisation.

Our vision is to create communities where everyone has a safe home in a place where they’re proud to live. We’re big and we’re local. Residents are at the heart of our services, and we use our size to influence positive change in the areas where we operate.

We’re looking for an experienced Disrepair / Maintenance Surveyor to join our Reactive Repairs Team. You will be responsible for cases from condition reports through to completion of works, delivering a quality, resident-focused, comprehensive, and co-ordinated service, ensuring compliance with all relevant policies and legal / regulatory requirements.

**This role is a permanent contract. You will be based from our Sittingbourne office, with the option for working in a hybrid way when appropriate and as agreed with your manager.**

You will be joining a friendly and supportive working environment, with great training opportunities and flexible approach.

**What you’ll be doing**
- Working in partnership with a dynamic and proactive team of surveyors, coordinators, RLOs and team assistants to ensure we meet our targets on a daily basis. Reporting to the Senior Disrepair Surveyor.
- Committed to putting residents first, creating a personalised experience throughout all stages of the resident journey.
- Take ownership and deliver excellent repair and empty home services, value for money and achieve results. Use all resources available to solve complex issues meeting resident’s reasonable expectations.**What you’ll need**
- Building surveying / legal disrepair experience. Membership of RICS or equivalent.
- Report writing, specification writing and IT skills.
- Strong customer service skills.
- Communication and negotiation skills.
- A great team player.
- Southern Housing HEART values.

**Closing date**: Monday 5th February 2024 at 23:59

**Shortlisting**: 6th February 2024

**Interview**: W/C 12th February 2024

**We reserve the rights to close this advert earlier than advertised if we receive a high volume of applicants.**

**About us**

At Southern Housing, our residents are at the **heart** of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own** **We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people’s lives.

A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.

**What's in it for you**

**Pension**

**Life**
**assurance**

**Healthcare cash plan**

**Eyecare & dental**

**Birthday**
**leave**

**Retailers discounts**

**Cycle**
**to work**

**Buy & sell**
**annual leave**

**Season ticket loan**

**In-house academy & career development**

**Flexible working**

**Inclusion & Diversity**

We work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics, it’s about celebrating differences of thought, opinion, experience and perspective of each individual.

We’re all different in our own way and we want our colleagues to feel comfortable, that they belong, and are safe to be themselves at work, without fear of being judged or excluded, but valued for their contribution to our One Team approach.