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The Vacancy
Repairs and Empty Homes Inspector
Location: Spennymoor, County Durham
Salary: Up to £32,620 (including car allowance) plus bonus and benefits per annum
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours:Full Time (37 Hours per week)
Are you an experienced and passionate Repairs and Empty Homes Inspector with great customer service skills, ready to embrace new career challenges in 2023.
In this post you will have an opportunity to make a difference to our tenants’ lives, assisting them with their home's repairs and maintenance, sustaining tenancies and providing a brilliant customer experience.
About us
We are an award-winning not for profit housing association that currently owns over 8,600 homes across County Durham. We offer more than just a home. We help improve the lives of the people living in our homes and in our places. We work hard to make sure those homes are high quality, sustainable and adaptable, while meeting tenants’ current and future aspirations. We offer support that help people into work and training and increase their financial confidence and stability.
There is no Plan B. There is no Planet B either. Now in the third and final phase of our nine-year Plan A, our strategy for 2022-25 and beyond requires ourselves, our suppliers, partners, and customers to raise our game with a primary focus on supporting sustainable places. To achieve this our new build and acquisition programme, regeneration work and home improvement programme will all be focused on improving lives through sustainable homes and places.
About the role
As a Repairs and Empty Homes Inspector, you will be undertaking inspections of occupied properties, identifying and recording repair issues, and raising necessary works orders.
You will take ownership of each case until issues are resolved, including checks on completed work and ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements.
About you
Putting the tenants at the heart of all you do comes naturally to you. You will have extensive technical experience of repairs and maintenance services, the ability to effectively diagnose the extent of property repairs and to issue appropriate work orders in compliance with Livin’s policy and procedures. You will monitor the work undertaken by Livin’s contractors to check that works are carried out in accordance with specifications, ensuring that a high standard of workmanship is achieved.
Educated to Level 5 in a relevant Surveying/Building Studies/Construction qualification (desirable), you will be able to demonstrate your commitment to professional personal development and learning through fully funded development.
Benefits
To see the fantastic benefits available to our employees, please visit here
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Dave Sayers, Repairs and Maintenance Manager, via email at dave.sayers@livin.co.uk
The Company
We are an award winning not for profit housing association based in County Durham. We offer more than just a home. We help improve the lives of the people living in our homes and in our communities.
We work hard to make sure those homes are high quality, efficient and adaptable, while meeting your current and future aspirations. We offer support that help people into employment and qualifications and increase their financial confidence and stability.
You have already applied for this vacancy, please go to your account to see your progress.
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Livin Housing Privacy Statement
The following explains how we Livin Housing (Controllers) intend to use the information you provide in your application, along with your rights, our reasons for requesting it and who will have access to it.
As defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Livin Housing is the Data Controller and ultimately responsible for ensuring the data you provide is kept secure, processed correctly and that you understand your legal rights in relation to the data you provide.
The recruitment software we use via this website is supplied by IRIS Software Group Limited and they are defined as a Data Processor under the GDPR. They will only process your data in accordance with our instructions.
IRIS can be contacted at: 4th Floor Heathrow Approach, 470 London Road, Slough, England, SL3 8QY
For Data Protection enquiries, please contact the Help Desk at support@networxrecruitment.com
The types of information we collect and the sources
This notice covers the information you share with us and/or which may be acquired by third parties during the application or recruitment process including (but not limited to):
Your Name, address, email, telephone number and other contact information.
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Your information will be used by Livin for the purposes of carrying out its application and recruitment process which includes:
Assessing your skills, knowledge, experience, values, behaviours, qualifications, and interests against our career opportunities.
Verifying your information and carrying out reference checks and/or conducting background checks (where applicable) if you are offered a job.
Communications with you about the recruitment process and/or your application(s), including, in appropriate cases, informing you of other potential career opportunities at Livin.
Making improvements to Livin’s application and/or recruitment process including improving diversity in recruitment practices.
Complying with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or enforceable governmental requests.
Proactively conducting research about your educational and professional background and skills and contacting you if we think you would be suitable for a role with us.
Statistical analysis.
If you are offered and accept employment with Livin, the information collected during the application and recruitment process will become part of your employment record.
We use some automated screening tools as part of this application process. The answers you provide to one or more of the questions (excluding any special categories/equal opportunity questions) may result in your application being automatically declined. This technology is used to help us manage the high volume of applications we receive and can assure applicants the same outcome would occur if we manually reviewed your application. The reason for the decline will be made available to you in your candidate account.
What is our legal basis for collecting and processing the information provided?
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:
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We collect and process your information where it is necessary, in order to take steps prior to our potentially entering into a contract of employment with you.
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You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting us viahr@livin.co.uk.
Legal obligation.
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Legitimate Interest.
If we use your information to improve our application or recruitment process, we do so on the basis that it is in our legitimate interest to ensure we recruit the best possible candidates.
Who will have access to your information?
We may share this information with networx (IRIS Software Group), SMC, Sue Hastie Solutions Ltd, and NEREO, in relation to the purposes described above.
Livin may also use service providers acting on Livin’s behalf to perform some of the services described above including for the purposes of the verification/background checks.
Livin may sometimes be required to disclose your information to external third parties such as regulatory bodies and/or law enforcement agencies for the purposes of complying with applicable laws and regulation in response to a legal process.
All service providers and external third parties are required to complete a Third-Party Information Security Assessment to ensure they comply with GDPR and Data Security obligations.
How do we store your personal information?
If you apply for a job at Livin and your application is unsuccessful (or withdraw from the process or decline our offer), Livin will retain your personal information for 24 months after the vacancy has closed. After this period, it will be fully anonymised and purged from the networx system.
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We are dedicated to providing reasonable access to visitors who wish to review the personal information retained when they apply via our website site and correct any inaccuracies it may contain. If you choose to register, you may access your profile, correct and update your details, or withdraw your details at any time. To do this, you can access your personal profile by using the secure login. In all cases we will treat requests to access information or change information in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
You have the following rights in relation to the way in which we deal with your personal data:
the right of erasure or to be forgotten- You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
the right to rectification- You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete. the right of data portability You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing- You have the right to object to Networx and the controller and processors handling of your personal data in certain circumstances
the right to withdraw your consent with regards to the handling of your personal data
Subject Access request- you have the right to ask for a copy of your personal information that we hold about you
Within your candidate account, you can also use the Download Data feature to generate an XML file of the current data we hold about you that you have provided and/or have access to within the account.
Where you exercise your right to object or withdraw your consent, we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where we are permitted or required by law or regulatory requirements to do so. In such a case, we will not process more personal data than is required under the circumstances.
How to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at Livin Housing Limited, Farrell House, Arlington Way, DurhamGate, Spennymoor, County Durham, DL16 6NL.
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
We may change this policy from time to time. We will post any changes to this policy on this page.
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