Hia Surveyor

**Home Improvement Agency (HIA) Surveyor x2 posts**

**PO2: Starting salary £39,615 pa rising in annual increments to £42,510 per annum incl LW.**

**Secondment opportunity**

This is a challenging and exciting opportunity for a confident, highly organised, and efficient individual seeking a role within Lambeth’s HIA Team under the Housing Directorate who works well as part of a team. Are you passionate about assisting vulnerable and/or disabled clients remain in their homes and providing excellent customer care to our service users?

A home improvement agency will aim: To enable those in need of support to maintain their independence in their chosen home for the foreseeable future. This includes older people, people on low incomes, disabled people, and other vulnerable groups in the private sector. This outcome would normally be achieved by supporting people throughout the repair, adaptation, or improvement process, so that the individual is able to remain in their own home in a warm, safe, and secure environment.

Your role will be to deliver and monitor HIA major adaptation and repairs, contributing to the efficient performance of the service, and to the achievement of statutory and local targets. Carry out surveys through to completion, including producing clear specifications and accurate drawings of adaptations as recommended by the Occupational Therapy Team. Carry out pre-start meetings with contractors, inspections relating to property standards, adaptations, repairs, and service requests to ensure that the proper and relevant national and local standards are in place.

**About you**

Educated to degree level or equivalent or demonstrable suitable experience at a relevant level (e.g. in housing), OR An in-depth level of knowledge and experience in a relevant area of work.

Can work well cross-functionally and to lead on specific projects - ensuring all stakeholders have a voice and services are tailored to meet demand.

We’re looking for someone who is proactive, passionate, and committed to improving our services. If you have the skills and experience necessary to excel in this role, we would love to hear from you.

**Why Lambeth**:

- In addition to the salary, we offer attractive benefits, please click on the link to view Lambeth Employee's Benefits

For detailed qualifications and requirements, please review the job description and person specification in hyperlink below:
**Job description & person specification**

Advert closing date: 11:59pm on Sunday 26th November 2023.