Housing Standards Manager

Belmont Recruitment are currently looking for an experienced Housing Standards Manager to join Wirral Council’s Strategic Housing Service on an initial 3-6 month temporary contract. This is a full-time role working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

This role is to manage the Council’s Housing Standards services including Clearance, Home Improvements, Empty Properties, Selective Licensing, HMOs, Enforcement and Healthy Homes services; to ensure that private sector housing programmes are successfully implemented, monitored and delivered on time and within the capital programme budget available and that Housing Standards across the borough continue to improve.

Key Duties:

• 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 revenue budgets, 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.

Requirements:

• Previous experience of working as a Housing Standards Manager or similar, ideally within a Local Authority
• A thorough knowledge of the neighbourhood renewal assessment techniques, clearance area and related compulsory purchase procedures
• Experience of and ability to prepare detailed specifications of work for large projects and leading on tendering procedures for housing regeneration projects
• Ability to travel across the Borough and work from various locations

If this role would be of interest, please apply as soon as possible with an up to date CV!