Acting as the designated Responsible Person, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and regulatory requirements, including asbestos, fire safety, gas safety, Legionella control, and electrical safety regulations. Responsible for developing, implementing, and monitoring compliance programmes, managing risk, and ensuring the safety of residents, staff, contractors, and visitors.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure full compliance with all property-related statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Act as the organisation’s designated Responsible Person for key safety disciplines.
• Oversee inspections, audits, risk assessments, and remedial programmes.
• Manage compliance records, certification, and reporting.
• Monitor contractor performance and ensure works are completed to the required standards.
• Provide expert advice on property compliance and risk management.
• Support a culture of health, safety, and continuous improvement across the organisation.

Person Specification

Qualifications, knowledge and understanding

• Degree in a relevant subject or equivalent.
• NEBOSH National and General Construction.

Experience

• Extensive experience within the residential property compliance area.
• Proactive approach to problem solving.
• Management experience and evidence of the ability to bring out the best in people, inspire confidence and respect and to measure individual and team performance.
• Experience of effective budget and financial management of resources, ensuring the provision of excellent services within the available budget.

Data and digital capability:

• Experience of compliance Management systems.
• Experience developing and reporting using.

Skills and attributes

• Ability to provide leadership, building positive learning and development cultures which support, motivate and develop others.
• Ability to develop and use IT to provide the most efficient and effective use of available resources.
• Excellent organisational skills, able to plan and prioritise own and others’ workload.
• Good negotiator with the ability to influence others, deliver results and build excellent working relationships with colleagues, tenants, contractors and key stakeholders.
• Effective communicator who can relate and engage with people at all levels of the organisation, with members of the public and external agencies, orally, in writing and graphically.
• Positive shared problem solving approach with the ability to develop and support others to positively embrace change.
• Ability to exercise a good degree of independent judgement using their initiative to make decisions.
• Ability to manage competing demands for resources and provide proactive solutions to ensure the effective delivery of services.

Personal Qualities

• An individual who enjoys contact with and relates well to a wide variety of people.
• Proven commitment to equality of opportunity and diversity of service delivery and employment.
• Ability to manage own workload and enjoys working to tight deadlines, within a changing environment and thriving under pressure, using initiative to plan and prioritise as appropriate.
• Calm and resourceful in difficult situations with the ability to negotiate and know when to compromise.
• A highly methodical person with excellent organisational skills.
• Personal commitment to promoting property compliance and health and safety.

Additional Requirements

• Prepared to provide out of hours officer cover as part of a rota.
• Car driver/owner or ability to travel effectively and in a timely fashion throughout Torfaen.
• Prepared to work flexibly including occasional evening and weekend.
• Will need to be able to travel as part of the job, in a timely manner.
• The ability to speak Welsh is a desirable criterion for this post.

Work4 pilot

We are currently running pilot of working a 4-day week (4DW). This is extended until end of October 2026. The pilot will then be reviewed by our board, before making a decision to extend or be made permanent.

Employee benefits:

People are our greatest asset at Bron Afon Community Housing, so we reward our colleagues with a fantastic benefits package:

• 23 days annual leave entitlement (exclusive of bank holidays)
• Social Housing Pension Scheme where Bron Afon will contribute 12% from day 1 of your employment
• Learning and Development investment to your career here at Bron Afon
• Health cash plan with Simply Health
• 24/7 free mental health support
• 24/7 free access to an online GP service
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity/Adoption pay
• Employee discount platform with access to retail, hospitality, days out, etc
• Occupational Health service
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• And FREE PARKING!

So, what are you waiting for? Apply today and good luck!

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