Job Description

Home Assistance Officer (Surveyor)



We are expanding our existing Home Assistance Team to keep up with the ever-increasing demand for grants / loans programme within North Lincolnshire.



This post is full-time / permanent



Have you got experience of designing adaptations for Disabled Facilities Grants, enabling elderly and vulnerable residents to remain in their own homes longer? Providing safe access to facilities we all take for granted, such as entering / leaving our homes without assistance and bathing in a safe environment.



Do you have good overall knowledge of domestic construction, can you spot major defects / hazards, assess them and offer solutions to remove them?



If you have experience of either of the above and want to make a difference to people's lives by helping them to improve their living conditions, then we may be able to offer you the opportunity to work for a modern, forward-thinking organisation, offering flexible working arrangements.



Based at Home / Church Square House, Scunthorpe, you will form part of a dedicated team working on delivering the grants / loans programme detailed within NLC's Home Assistance Policy.



The ideal candidate will be an experienced housing surveyor, who has experience of both the above, with practical knowledge of using HHSRS and the ability to produce schedules of work to enable like for like quotations.



Good Computer Aided Design (CAD) skills would be advantageous as would an understanding of grants legislation.



Whatever your experience, you must have excellent communication skills especially with regards to liaising with service users, many of whom are elderly and vulnerable. Experience of managing works on site and liaising with contractors would also be an advantage.



For the right candidate, dependent upon your skillset and experience, we will work with you, to build on this with a view to you being able to eventually work both unsupervised, with your own workload and as part of a team.



You will be provided with excellent admin / IT support and continuous professional development to enable you to carry out the role and develop your skills accordingly.



We would consider someone who wishes to work part-time.



Please see attached job description and employee specification which you should refer to when completing your application to demonstrate you meet the essential criteria for the role.



If you think you are the right person, but maybe think you haven't got the right experience and would like an informal discussion to learn more about the job, please contact:



Robert Freeman - Lead Officer - Home Assistance & Accident Prevention.

Tel:

01724 297636. (07:45 - 16:30)



email Robert.freeman@northlincs.gov.uk



We are collectively organised around the people and place of North Lincolnshire. Together we ensure that our communities are safe, well, prosperous and connected. We are ambitious for North Lincolnshire, we want our area to be the #BestPlace for our residents by being the #BestCouncil we can be. We achieve this through living our values - equality of opportunity, excellence, integrity and self-responsibility - in all that we do.