Director of Health, Safety & Property Compliance (Places for People)

We are Places for People, we manage affordable homes for people of all ages and circumstances to live and enjoy life, all across the country.

We want you to join the Places for People Group and the 11,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped to build, manage, maintain places that people are proud to call home and stay active in. How do we do all this? We surround ourselves with big ideas people, trusted people and supportive people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.

More about your role

Due to impending retirement we are looking for a new Director of Health, Safety and Property Compliance to work within our Affordable Housing business, a group of six landlords who collectively own and manage more than 71,000 homes. Our vision is to create and maintain neighbourhoods that are modern, relevant and fit for the future, providing a service that enables our customers to live their best lives. We are working to do that while providing a friendly, proactive and ‘people first’ customer experience and safe, efficient services providing value for money.

As the Director of Health, Safety and Property Compliance you will provide leadership in driving a safety culture within our businesses and ensure that we meet all applicable statutory requirements. Ensuring robust auditing processes are in place to assure compliance to legislative requirements including statutory landlord H&S legislation

You will have oversight of, and drive a coordinated approach to, two key areas; the health and safety of our people and the effectiveness of our policies and practices to ensure our properties are compliant with the relevant regulations and therefore safe for our customers.

You will help to drive continuous improvement in our approach to health, safety and compliance, working with the Group’s Health & Safety function being the single point of contact for reporting, policy development and performance monitoring.

For more information please download our job profile available on our website.

More about you

The ideal candidate will be CMIOSH and able to demonstrate competency against the IOSH Competency Framework. You will possess detailed knowledge of health and safety legislation and compliance requirements for residential homes. You will have operated at a senior manager level and be comfortable both managing a team of compliance experts and providing strategic leadership in relation to health & safety.

Previous experience of managing teams who are responsible for safety inspection processes and procedures across residential housing portfolios including risk assessments (e.g. fire safety, asbestos management, gas etc.) is essential. You will have a working knowledge of Social Housing Policy and Practice and the relevant regulatory framework in England and Scotland. To be successful you will be analytical, with project management skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships, networks & partnerships.

You should possess a customer-focused, people first agenda. Your work should always centre around the customer, making commercial and innovative solutions to drive the business forward whilst putting people first. Above all you will be a hands-on, visible leader with a positive can-do attitude.

The benefits

We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you job security and all the challenge you could wish for. Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.

We know that there’s always more we can do to make you smile, that’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to help colleagues save money or make their lives a little bit easier which can include:

Company car/allowance
Bonus
Excellent holiday pay with the ability to buy/sell leave
Pension with matched contributions
Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more.

What’s next?

If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then click apply. You will be redirected to our careers site where you can discover more about the role, read a full job description and apply directly to us.