Customer Safety Officer - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Karbon Homes

Karbon Homes

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Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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CUSTOMER SAFETY OFFICER - Permanent Role

We are looking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced individual to undertake the post of Customer Safety Officer within the Community Safety Team.

Come and join our team
We build, manage and look after homes for people across the North. Then we go further, we give them the strong foundations they need to crack on with life.

Since our formation in 2017, we've been focused on delivering on our three strategic aims - to provide as many good quality homes as we can; to deliver excellent service to our customers; and to shape strong, sustainable places for our communities.

Our footprint covers the Northeast of England and Yorkshire, south from the Scottish border to almost as far as the Humber, where diverse communities face differing opportunities and challenges.

Key Information
It's important to us that everyone feels fairly rewarded for the work they do. We offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package that supports the wellbeing of our people.

Customer Safety Officer permanent role
Salary is £31,257 per annum plus a Karbon car payment of £ per annum
Location: Stanley or Gosforth
Regular travel will be required across all Karbon stock
37 Hours per week with some homeworking available/flexible working
Generous benefits package including 26 days annual leave on commencement rising to 31 days after 3 years' service, occupational pension, health cash plan, and birthday leave, with the option of a flexible pot towards enhanced benefits.

The Role of Customer Safety Officer

The right person will be delivering a high quality, cost effective, customer focused housing service across all Karbon Homes geography that keeps our customers safe in response to our fire safety management and in accordance with housing and other related legislation.

You will be responsible for managing any housing management related issues that arise within our communal buildings relating to access and fire safety with an emphasis on compliance.

Working across the Karbon footprint you will work alongside and build a strong relationship with our property services compliance team and all our wider housing teams to deliver all aspects of estate and housing management services across multi-tenure types.

A Customer Safety Officer will provide support and relevant information to residents in relation to fire safety and keeping themselves safe within our communal environments.

There will be a strong emphasis on compliance and working with tenants to achieve this or take enforcement action where necessary.

You will need an understanding and knowledge of fire safety, estate management, tenancy enforcement and other compliance related matters.

You will be an excellent communicator with excellent administration skills.

Experience of taking enforcement action, producing reports, statements and the ability to plan and prioritise your own workload is essential.

The postholder will be often working to targets with high performance indicators and strict deadlines in a fast paced environment.

You will have previous experience of working and dealing with a variety of housing management and estate management issues in neighbourhoods and communities.

Knowledge and experience of working in a housing environment and housing legislation is an essential requirement of the role.

You will be part of a dynamic team, but the role does require the ability to work on your own initiative and carry out lone working in the community and in tenants' homes.

A flexible approach to work is key as the post holder will be required to work across all office locations and Karbon stock as necessary and occasionally work outside normal working hours.

A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes is essential.

Important dates
Sunday 5 February 2023

Interview date
Friday 17 February or Monday 20 February 2023 (to be confirmed)

For further details please refer to the Role Description attached to this advert.

To give yourself the best chance of being shortlisted, you need to provide full details and examples in the Supporting Statement based on the criteria in the person specification.

For further information about the role please contact Laurie Edmundson, Community Safety Manager on

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent

Salary:
Up to £31,257.00 per year

Benefits: