Building Safety Inspector

**Building Safety Inspector**

**Permanent 35 Hours per week**

**Based in Newcastle**

**Salary £26,671 - £29,497**

**Working Pattern - Monday to Friday Hybrid**

**Want to make a real difference to the lives of people? For over 90 years, The Riverside Group has been providing affordable housing across the UK to people as well as care for the elderly and support for those who face homelessness.**

**The difference you’ll make**
- Carry out a program of building safety inspections to identify defects, prioritise their action and ensure action is undertaken in an agreed / appropriate timescales), removing hazards, and ensuring any installed equipment to protect people safety or the building is working correctly to a range of Group properties.
- Undertake functional / operational safety checks to ensure installed equipment is in full working order to ensure compliance with risk and health and safety protocols
- Record outcomes of inspections and functional/operational checks, assess any hazards and determine the appropriate action and timescale to mitigate any risks.
- Report Emergency repairs through customer service centre and Compliance Management Teams / Quality Assurance Team colleagues.
- Report Emergency repairs through customer service centre and Compliance Proven track record of monitoring risk and health and safety compliance and carrying out inspections within a housing environment

**So, who are you?**
- Knowledge of asbestos, legionella, building regulations, fire regulations, health and safety regulations and carrying out risk assessments within a housing environment.
- Effective stakeholder management, both internally and external to the organisation.
- Proficient in the use of IT systems including MS Office.
- Evidence of accurately reviewing, collating, and recording a variety of data for meaningful analysis.
- Management Teams / Quality Assurance Team colleagues.

**Desirable**:

- Management Teams / Quality Assurance Team
- Experience of successfully undertaking the role of Building Safety / Compliance Inspector, within a similar organisation colleague’s.
- Knowledge of Compliance Information and Communications Technology (ICT) systems including Housing Management Systems E.g. Academy/Open Housing management, C365, Promaster

**Enjoy the rewards**

Working with us, you’ll enjoy competitive pay, 28 days holidays excluding 8 bank holidays, a wide range of benefits, flexible working, and the chance to learn valuable new skills. We empower our people to do great work by investing in learning, personal development, and technology.

If you’re the kind of person that wants to do a really great job and make a difference to our customers, we think you’ll love it here. Sound like a challenge you’d like to take on? Then get in touch and let’s talk about how you can help us transform lives and revitalise neighbourhoods.
- We encourage applicants from all sections of the community so that we can truly reflect the neighbourhoods in which we work. _

**Carry out Building Safety inspections to identify and respond to defects, prioritising and ensuring actions are undertaken in a timely manner by removing hazards and ensuring any installed equipment is operational to ensure people are safe and the building is working effectively. To defend any liability claims relating to the communal areas and to provide a due diligent defence against a claim for breach of a statutory or regulatory requirement or defend an allegation for serious detriment.**

**Role Profile**
- Work within a designated geographical patch and provide operational support and cover to other colleagues across group portfolio.
- Carry out a program of building safety inspections to identify defects, prioritise their action and ensure action is undertaken in an agreed / appropriate timescales), removing hazards, and ensuring any installed equipment to protect people safety or the building is working correctly to a range of Group properties.
- Undertake functional / operational safety checks to ensure installed equipment is in full working order to ensure compliance with risk and health and safety protocols
- Record outcomes of inspections and functional/operational checks, assess any hazards and determine the appropriate action and timescale to mitigate any risks.
- Report Emergency repairs through customer service centre and Compliance Management Teams / Quality Assurance Team colleagues.
- Escalate any building safety risks/concerns to Team Leader / Operational Manager and Quality Assurance Team, within set timescales, and using agreed reporting tools, to enable remedial action to be carried out to mitigate risks identified.
- Support completion of dynamic risk assessment of buildings to determine the appropriate risk level and frequency of inspection, including data & information collection.
- Post inspect the quality of completed fire remedial works to buildings and provide brief reports, photographs, and information to reta