Technical and Healthy Homes Officers

4 days ago

York, United Kingdom City of York Council Full time

**Job Title**: Technical and Healthy Homes Officers

**Location**:York

**Salary**: Grade 8 Level 1- 4 (£28,097 to £31,138 per annum)

**Job type**: Part time/Full Time - Permanent

**General info**

We provide local government services to around 200,000 people in an area covering approximately 105 square miles. Service includes a whole range of departments such as Housing, Sports & leisure, Schooling & education, Health & social care, Environment &animals and waste & recycling.

**Role Info**

City of York Council is looking for enthusiastic individuals to joining our housing team as we continue to fulfil our commitment to provide and support healthy and sustainable housing.

**Responsibilities include - Technical Officer (18.5 hours)**
- You will play a key role in ensuring residents occupy homes that are healthy and sustainable
- Where necessary, adapt homes to meet the needs of the resident both in council owned and private sector homes.
- The inspection of properties and provision of written reports.
- Working closely with other professionals such as the occupational therapists during the course of the work to provide feasibility reports with sketch plans, schedules of work and estimated costs.
- Inspecting works in progress or completed work on site and liaising with contractors.
- Recommend appropriate stage and final grant payments for approval, ensuring documentation is accurate and complete.
- HNC Building qualification or 5 years equivalent experience in domestic building maintenance and improvements/adaptations.
- knowledge of local authority decision-making processes.
- Excellent communication skills, organisation skills and IT skills.

**Responsibilities include -Healthy Homes Officer (18.5 hours)**
- You will play a key role in ensuring residents occupy homes that are healthy and sustainable carrying out a range of duties that will support homeowners
- You will also help owners of empty properties to bring them back in to use.
- Accessing homes and empty properties to identify building defects and associated hazards identify what is needed to bring them up to standard.
- To work with owners of properties and their contractors throughout the duration of any remedial work.
- To help owners access financial help (loans and energy efficiency grants) to ensure that properties meet the standard to enable them to be brought back into use.
- Diploma or BTEC in Housing, Housing Health & Rating System (HHSRS) qualification.
- A sound knowledge of the service's customer standards, practices and procedures and the ability to work to them at all times.
- Excellent communication skills, organisation skills and IT skills.

**Benefits**
- Hybrid working available and encouraged
- A generous annual leave allowance
- Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Comprehensive Health & Wellbeing initiatives
- A reward package which recognises your contribution.
- Paid dependent care leave, unpaid leave and foster carer leave
- Flexible working practices, community engagement and volunteer activities
- Promotion of continuous Learning & Development.
- Staff benefits platform including discounted retail and supermarket shopping.
- New car lease scheme.
- Discounted bus and train tickets.
- Salary sacrifice schemes for cycles and IT equipment.

This role will be based both at home and at the West offices.

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