Compliance Officer (Maternity Cover)

Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Temporary up to 12 months 
Closing date: 28 March 2024

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF TIFFENY’S POWERFUL VOICE

At Westminster City Council, we don’t just listen to the voices and experiences of our residents – we listen to our people too. Tiffeny is a single mum whose young son has ADHD and before joining our team, she never thought she’d find a job that gave her flexibility and freedom to support her son’s needs. As a neurodivergent woman herself, she also never expected to be part of a team that not only supports her needs, but actively celebrates them – where people encourage her to be her true self. And that’s what she found here at the City of Westminster.

Working as an Engagement Officer Within the corporate property team means that she gets to meet people from all walks of life within the community supporting the development of positive change, especially being the voice for young people where it matters – in education, training, or employment. Her experiences and her amazing ability to relate to others means that within the first few months of joining our team, she’d already made a huge impact on things like accessibility in the Borough. Tiffeny feels heard and that’s because we know how important it is to listen.

The Role:

As a Compliance Officer you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster’s success. Working as a key member of our Compliance team to ensure all buildings within the portfolio are compliant with legal obligations and operational PPMs, you’ll also check that relevant certification for fire, water, gas, LOLER, electrics and asbestos are in place, and that any works requested are undertaken. Supporting the delivery of monthly statutory compliance KPIs, and inputting data into corporate IT systems including CPM and Shine, we’ll also expect you to prepare performance reports for the Technical Assurance Lead and other Managers.

Liaising with a number of contractors to obtain quality data from their systems and with the corporate health and safety team to ensure consistency of practice across the council, you’ll assist with audits to check whether buildings are compliant throughout Westminster. We’ll also expect you to coordinate risk assessment actions to ensure the timely closure of remedial works, ensure that contractor PPMs are undertaken and monitored to completion, and the necessary certification is applied.

You’ll have a wide range of additional responsibilities – these include ensuring that the Council’s investment properties are compliant, and our data system has up-to-date certificates and other evidence stored correctly. You’ll also report any non-compliance issues to the appropriate managers, work with contractors on site regarding compliance and health and safety matters, visit and inspect buildings when required, and assist with the creation of an open-performance driven culture.
 

About You:

Dynamic, professional, customer focused and with a background in health and safety and compliance, you’ll be ready to identify issues and come up solutions. A collaborative team player with excellent communication skills and the confidence to suggest ways in which we can improve the way we work, you’ll possess proven experience of managing statutory and PPM compliance and managing certification for gas, electric, asbestos, fire, LOLER and water and PPMs.

We’ll expect you to be capable of managing remedial works to completion, and you should have well developed experience of using IT systems for data management monitoring and reporting. Ready to work on site with contractors and other stakeholders, you’ll also have the ability to analyse relevant information and data, prepare reports and assist with compliance audits.

A collaborative and motivating team worker but also capable of working independently, you’ll possess superb stakeholder management skills. With the ability to organise your workload and prioritise tasks to meet deadlines, you’ll have outstanding writing and attention to detail skills and be capable of communicating with a wide range of stakeholders and colleagues. In addition, a relevant qualification relating to compliance in health and safety (or working towards this) would be desirable.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. 

Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way.

As a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application , we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.