ISHA
Job Title: Building Safety Manager
Hours: 35 hours (full time)
Location: ISHA, 102 Blackstock Road, Finsbury Park, N4 2DR
Salary: £72,222
Contract: Permanent
Application Process
Please apply with your CV and a covering letter telling us: -
(a) After reading the job description and person spec, why you feel you are a great fit, and how your experience matches the skills and requirements of the role?
(b) Can you provide an example of a time when you ensured a building complied with the Building Safety Act 2022 or similar regulations? What steps did you take to ensure compliance, and how did you handle any challenges that arose?
(c) Describe your experience in developing and maintaining safety cases for higher-risk buildings. How do you ensure that safety cases are comprehensive and up-to-date? Can you give an example of a safety case you have worked on and its impact on building safety?
(d) When completing multiple tasks with competing deadlines, how do you prioritise?
(e) anything else you want us to know about you.
Please note: We can only able to accept applications from candidates with eligibility to currently work in the UK.
Deadline: 9:00am on Monday 29 July 2024
Interview: Will be held the week commencing 29 July 2024
We are looking for a confident, competent people-focused individual with great interpersonal skills for this busy Building Safety Manager role. If this is you, come and join us at ISHA as one of our Building Safety Manager.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Building Safety professional to join our small, but supportive, Housing & Neighbourhoods Team as a Building Safety Manager. This role focuses on all aspects of the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Fire Safety Act 2021 and offers a varied and engaging environment for a solution-focused individual with a passion for building safety and resident well-being. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in ensuring the safety of our residents and the compliance of our buildings.
Key Responsibilities:
Building Safety Management: Ensure all buildings under your management comply with the Building Safety Act 2022 and other relevant regulations.
Maintain up-to-date records of safety assessments, inspections, and compliance reports.
Implement and manage safety case reviews for higher-risk buildings, ensuring all potential risks are identified and mitigated.
Safety Cases: Develop and maintain comprehensive safety cases for higher-risk buildings, detailing the safety measures in place, identified risks, and strategies for risk mitigation. Regularly review and update safety cases to reflect any changes in the building, its use, or the regulatory environment. Ensure that safety cases are readily available to regulatory bodies and other stakeholders as required.
Resident Engagement: Act as the main point of contact for residents on building safety issues. Provide clear and accessible information to residents regarding building safety measures and their responsibilities. Engage with residents regularly to address their concerns and ensure their feedback is incorporated into safety plans.
Safety Management Systems: Develop and maintain robust safety management systems and procedures. Ensure regular fire risk assessments and other safety inspections are conducted and documented. Oversee the implementation of safety measures, ensuring they are effective and up to date.
Collaboration and Coordination: Work closely with the Head of Building Safety and Building Safety officer and other team members to integrate safety measures into maintenance and liaise with external contractors, ensuring they adhere to safety regulations and standards. Coordinate with regulatory bodies and ensure all statutory notifications and reporting requirements are met.
Training and Development: Ensure that all staff and contractors are adequately trained in building safety protocols and the requirements of the Building Safety Act 2022. Promote a culture of safety awareness and continuous improvement within the organization.
Emergency Preparedness: Develop and maintain emergency response plans for all buildings. Conduct regular drills and training sessions to ensure preparedness for any safety incidents.
Continuous Improvement: Monitor and review building safety practices regularly to identify areas for improvement. Implement new safety initiatives and best practices to enhance overall building safety.
Requirements:
You need to be flexible, proactive, and enthusiastic, and have excellent communication and influencing skills. A great sense of humour will serve you in good stead working in our busy, fast paced office.
Don’t feel you meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that some candidates are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single requirement. At ISHA, we are dedicated to building an inclusive workforce, so if you’re excited by this role but your experience doesn’t quite align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You just might be the right candidate for this, or other roles, because of your transferable skills.
About ISHA
We are a small but ambitious housing association at a critical juncture. Our ambition is for the communities we are anchored in and exist to serve, and we have done and achieved much over the past few years. But in these challenging times we know we’ll achieve nothing unless we are equally ambitious for own our people.
Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. We strive to build a more diverse organisation, where everyone feels empowered to bring, and be, their best self to work.
We can’t be a brilliant landlord if we don’t partner with brilliant colleagues. Could you be one of them and be trusted to make the difference?
If this sounds exciting, we want you on our team. Please do apply.
Staff Benefits
We’ll offer you a generous pension scheme (up to 10% employer matched contributions and a death in service benefit), 29 days annual leave (increasing after five years’ service), eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and other great benefits (see attached). We have an evolving wellbeing offer, that is being developed following employee feedback, and we will invest in your professional development with on-going training and career development opportunities.
Inclusion and Diversity
We want ISHA to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBTQ+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that passionate commitment to customers, respect for everyone, pride in Team ISHA and trusted to make the difference remains at the heart of everything we do.
Asking for adjustments
ISHA is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview, or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 0300 131 7300, at [email protected] or via post to 102 Blackstock Road, London, N4 2DR.
This role is based at our Head Office but there is some flexibility to work in a hybrid way if preferred.