Housing Standards Manager

Housing Standards Manager - Birkenhead - Merseyside 

Contract - Full Time - 5 Days per week - 37 hours 

Duties/Responsibilities

• Monitor and interpret changes in both housing and regeneration policy and legislation to ensure compliance with statutory duties and the application of the most appropriate statutory powers relating to improvements of Housing Standards and the safeguarding of vulnerable people living in substandard homes. Ensure the enforcement strategy is robust and officers are fully equipped and competent to utilise all enforcement tools available.
• To have overall responsibility for leading, motivating, managing and directing the development and delivery of the Housing Standards services, ensuring high quality services are achieved, monitored and reviewed.
• To be responsible for programme management including setting targets, forecasting, and monitoring delivery of outcomes and programme budgets, including the Housing Capital programme, LCR retrofit Programme, grant funding and team revenuebudgets, ensuring that all activities are cost effective, value added, income targets met and budgets balanced. Contribute to efficiencies and savings for Housing Services where required.
• Represent Wirral in a leading role on Housing Standards issues at a regional and sub regional level on cross authority working and investment opportunities, including where required LCR Officer and Programme Board meetings.
• Plan, collect, analyse, evidence and make strategic decisions in relation to area-based multi-property Neighbourhood Options Appraisals, Compulsory Purchase Orders and Master-planning exercises to determine the most satisfactory course of action for dealing with poor housing conditions and obsolete housing and take action to deliver proposals.
• Appraise opportunities to innovate, develop and implement strategic projects that effectively tackle the biggest challenges associated with improving housing conditions, and making the best use of Wirral’s housing stock utilising the resources available and in line with the Council’s Housing Strategy
• Engage, influence and negotiate with partners outside to secure resources, services and added value to benefit the service users and deliver investment programmes relating to improving housing conditions for example LCR retrofit programmes, pilots to improve intelligence on rogue landlords or other wider projects
• Lead on the identification of strategic priorities and opportunities for Housing Standards and prepare and submit funding bids to government agencies in order to provide financial resources to implement both the revenue and capital elements of the housing services and programmes.
• Design and implement information systems for monitoring and reporting the performance across all of the teams and take necessary action to enable targets and performance standards to be met.  Assist in ensuring that information systems are responsive to changing needs and compliant with legislative requirements.
• To be responsible for the effective people management of staff to ensure that staff are supported and continuously developed while also implementing Council policies and procedures relating to e.g., attendance, training, performance, discipline etc.

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