Disrepair Surveyor

**What's involved with this role**:
**Interim Disrepair Surveyor - Housing**
**Reference no: Havering RQ850770**
**Pay Rate: £40.00 per hour PAYE**
**This opening assignment is for 2-3 months**
**Enhanced DBS disclosure required for this role** The purpose of the role is to carry out property inspections and provide advice to social housing landlord on whether claims were genuine.
**Key Responsibilities**:

- Preparing and reviewing discloser documents.
- Responsible for carrying out surveys as part of a dis-repair claims being made by tenants.
- Good time management, working within protocol time frames, meeting all deadlines.
- Good communication skills, collaboratively working with internal departments such as legal.
- Preparing expert witness reports in the Scott schedule format.
- Attend joint inspections with the tenants solicitors surveyor.
- Putting together a specification for any works required as part of the new Fit for human habitation act 2018.
- Carry out a post inspection and sign off works, keeping a photographic record.

**“Role Requirements” - to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria**:
**Qualifications**:

- Must be RICS or associate RICS in Building Surveying.
- GCSE Grade A-C (or equivalent) in English Language and Mathematics.

**Skills & Experience**:

- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
- Experience of working with housing providers.
- Experienced expert witness, willing to attend court to defend claims.
- Housing Surveyor/ Inspection Background.
- Flexible working available.
- Communication And Interpersonal Skills.
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).

**To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF**
**If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.**

**Other “Essential Requirements” - Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items**:

- **Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.**
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
- **Please refer to the Role Requirements section above - your CV must address the requirements listed.**

**Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable**:

- Any local authority/public sector experience
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for.

**Job Ref: Havering RQ850770**

**Anticipated Length of Assignment**: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.