Neighbourhood Inspector

**Neighbourhood Inspector**

**Salary: £26,852-£28,284 per annum plus excellent benefits**

**Location: Walsall, West Midlands**

**Contract: Full Time, Fixed Term, 37 hours per week**

**Closing Date: 2 January 2023**

**Interview Date: 13 January 2023**

We have an exciting opportunity for anNeighbourhood Inspectorto join our Neighbourhood Services team. In this role, you will assist with the delivery of services provided by the Neighbourhood Services Team.

We can offer
- A competitive salary
- Excellent working conditions 27 days annual leave, plus Christmas shut down
- Great sick pay provisions
- A favourable local government pension scheme
- Local work
- Flexible working opportunities
- Access to Westfield health care benefits
- Uniform provided
- Company mobile phone & IT provided
- Car mileage paid
- Access to Learning & Development courses

**Main job responsibilities**:

- Contribute effectively to the management of an inspections regime for land that falls under the ownership of whg.
- Develop and undertake a programme of safety inspections on non-highway sites within whg ownership to provide whg with legal defence on litigation cases.
- Undertake inspections in accordance with the Safety Inspection Manual and to identify, assess, and mark up on site any defects that meet or exceed the intervention thresholds for actionable repair.
- Assess the risk for individual defects exercising personal judgment and discretion to identify the appropriate defect risk category in accordance with the Safety Inspection policy.
- Manage workload and priorities in a manner that ensures that the non highway sites within whg ownership are inspected at the required frequency.

**We're looking for someone who has**:

- A full UK driving licence
- Must have access to a car.
- Recent and relevant experience of undertaking a similar role.
- Experience of using equipment relating to safety inspections.
- An awareness of the Highway Maintenance Code of Practices and Public Open Space (POS) inspection best practice.
- The ability to communicate clearly and effectively verbally with customers, local groups and partner agencies.
- Ability to communicate effectively in writing with internal and external colleague.

**What’s in it for you?**

In return, you will receive a competitive salary, 27 days annual leave (plus Christmas shut down), a defined benefit pension scheme, health cash plan, a range of shopping and leisure discounts.

We are output focused and flexible and believe in giving colleagues the right balance of autonomy and support to enable them to work to their full potential. Despite the high expectation for performance and delivery, we are committed to ensuring colleagueshave a healthy work-life balance and able to work in agile ways which support them.

**About us**

Our People Strategy presents a clear picture of how we will achieve our Corporate Plan aim, 'Be an exceptional place to work that attracts, develops and retains talent’. The Strategy focuses on three key themes that help us support our colleagues to makea difference to our customers, the communities we serve and to themselves.

It is important to us that we have a diverse workforce, representative of the communities we serve. Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) to us means colleagues living our values, dedicated to doing the right thing and exercising good judgement. This willencourage a culture where all can thrive, acknowledging that everyone is different; what matters to us is that everyone can come to work and feel comfortable to be themselves.

We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer and ensure that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations while working with us. We want to makeit clear that we welcome disabled applicants for all our roles. If in doubt look out for the Disability Confident logo.

We will ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, and we will interview applicants with a disability if they meet the essential criteria for a role. We will also support existing colleagues with a disability or long-term health conditionenabling them to stay in work, making reasonable adjustments if necessary.