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Grant Surveyor

  • Employer: Elmbridge Borough Council
  • Reference: SER/24/278694
  • Published: Fri 26/04/2024, 8:37 AM
  • Closing on: Tue 21/05/2024, 9:00 AM
  • Working Pattern: Full Time, Part Time
  • Hours: 36 hours per week, Full time 36 hours per week or part time 21.6 hours per week considered
  • Salary: £51,132 - £54,365 per annum
  • DBS Check: Yes
  • Location: Elmbridge Borough Council, Civic Centre, High Street, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9SD, Surrey

April 2024

Grant Surveyor Care and Repair Elmbridge (CARE)

Contract : Permanent

Working Pattern : Full time 36 hours per week

or part time 21.6 hours per week considered

Salary - £51,132 -  £54,365 per annum (PO 42 – PO 45)

DBS check : Yes Basic

Our Care and Repair team provides a valued home improvement service to our residents including home assessments and support with grant applications. 

As a qualified surveyor, we need you to provide support and advice to clients on the technical aspects of repairs and adaptions to their home. You will design suitable schemes of repair, improvement to domestic property and adaptations in collaboration with Occupational Therapists, all to ensure our clients needs are met at home.

You will draw up plans and specifications of works, managing the tendering process to obtain costs from contactors, recommending schemes and costs for approval, obtaining external permissions and approvals, monitoring, and managing works on site through to satisfactory conclusion.

You will do all of this to allow our clients to live independently.

You will have:

  • A general building qualification such as HNC/HND
  • A corporate or professional membership of a construction related professional body ie RICS/ CIOB or similar relevant experience.
  • Relevant experience of dealing with contractors and members of the public on housing/construction related matters.
  • Demonstrable experience of housing maintenance and adaptation.
  • Recent experience of drawing up detailed specifications and producing tender documentation.
  • Demonstrable experience of managing and monitoring contractors’ work, administering, and analysing building contracts.
  • Relevant experience surveying properties and creating schedules of dilapidations.
  • Proven track record of identifying and meeting the needs of elderly or vulnerable people in their own homes.

About us

We know we ask a lot, but we give a lot too. We are progressive organisation, committed to supporting the people of Elmbridge and that commitment extends to our employees.

You will benefit from our excellent pension, as well as the ‘Thrive’ package of employee benefits and discounts with various local businesses and free employee parking.

We offer hybrid working arrangements, as well as your birthday off and we are closed between Christmas and New Year, (no annual leave required).

We have also launched the Octopus Electric Vehicles’ (EV) electric car salary sacrifice scheme as a new employee benefit. 

What else?

Find out more about our housing service on our website: https://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/housing/

If you have any queries about the role, please contact Helen, Care Team Manager on 01372 474602.

Closing date for applications:  21/05/24 at 9:00

 

 

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  • Elmbridge Recruitment Pack
  • Job Description / Person Specification
  • Employer: Elmbridge Borough Council
  • Reference: SER/24/278694
  • Published: Fri 26/04/2024, 8:37 AM
  • Closing on: Tue 21/05/2024, 9:00 AM
  • Working Pattern: Full Time, Part Time
  • Hours: 36 hours per week, Full time 36 hours per week or part time 21.6 hours per week considered
  • Salary: £51,132 - £54,365 per annum
  • DBS Check: Yes
  • Location: Elmbridge Borough Council, Civic Centre, High Street, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9SD, Surrey

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