Stock Condition Surveyor

GreenSquareAccord; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A housing association is seeking a Stock Condition Surveyor to collect and validate property condition data, ensuring homes meet safety standards. This role involves conducting surveys and requires a recognized qualification in building surveying or a related field. The ideal candidate will have excellent planning, customer care, and communication skills, along with experience in Social Housing and a Full UK Driving Licence.

Benefits

Trust based flexible working

25 days annual holiday, increasing to 30 days

Opportunity to buy or sell annual leave

Defined contribution pension scheme matched up to 6%

24/7 online GP appointments and health checks

Blue Light discount card membership

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Cycle to work Scheme

Occupational sick pay

Qualifications

• Strong planning, project, time, and workload management skills required.
• Experience in Social Housing preferred.
• Full UK Driving Licence is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Collect and validate property condition and repair data.
• Conduct property condition and compliance surveys.
• lodge energy data for energy performance certification.

Skills

Planning and organization

Customer care

Communication skills

Education

Recognized qualification in a related field

Domestic Energy assessment accreditation

BTEC, HND/HNC or equivalent

Job description

Contract type

Permanent

Working hours

Full Time 37 hrs per week

We are looking for surveyors with a can‑do attitude and a track record of surveying properties.

Scheduling of improvement work would be benefical for this role.

Could this be for you?

About the role

The primary purpose of this role is the collection and validation of accurate property condition and repair data to inform annual programme of investment, the Business Plan and long‑term financial planning process.

The Stock Condition Surveyor will be responsible for ensuring that our homes are safe, desirable and ultimately meet the Decent Homes and the HHSRS standard. This will include collecting and lodging energy data to create Energy Performance Certification for our properties to feed into the group’s Decarbonisation Strategy and wider sector Social Housing decarbonisation agenda.

You will ensure that accurate stock condition, energy, planned repairs and compliance related data is collected. It requires high levels of customer care and communication to be achieved during the delivery of the survey programme.

DEA training and subsequent accreditation will be achieved as part of the employees’ induction

Other duties will include:

• Property condition surveys (dwellings, blocks and communal areas)
• Property and block compliance surveys
• Energy and RDSAP Surveys (if required, all relevant training will be given to employees as part of their induction)
• Housing Health and Safety rating System (HHSRS) surveys
• Ad‑hoc condition and validation surveys to meet business objectives.
• Customer query and complaint surveys where required.

Please note that if you are successful in this role, we will require a DBS check to be completed. Further details will be sent following offer.

About you

For this role, you will require recognised qualification in a building surveying, maintenance, construction, energy, or asset management related field.

BTEC, HND/HNC or equivalent ability or vocabulary, verbal reasoning, and numerical skills to the equivalent ability level is essential for this role.

Domestic Energy assessment accreditation in order to lodge energy performance certification would be considered an advantage.

A strength would be excellent planning, project, time and workload management and personal organisation skills.

Ideally you will have experience within Social Housing.

This role will require you to have a Full UK Driving Licence.

Please note that if you are successful in this role, we will require evidence of the required certificates and qualifications for this role. Without this evidence, you would be unable to commence employment at GreenSquareAccord.

About us

We are GSA, we provide affordable homes and services that create a foundation from which people in our communities can thrive.

We own and manage 25,000 homes in diverse communities across the West Midlands and Southwest.

Everyone deserves a home, it’s a place from which we build our future, we thrive at home.

We are proud to play an active role in dealing with the consequences of the housing crisis, by providing affordable homes for people in our communities who need them most.

Often a home is all someone needs, but when our customers need more, we offer a range of services, including care, money advice and coaching to support them.

We also provide care and support to some of the most vulnerable people in society. This includes support for people who are homeless, experiencing domestic violence or are part of the criminal justice system.

The GSA Way

We know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. To help us make a difference, together, we created the GSA Way.

A culture we commit to, aspire to, and live and breathe. Commitments and behaviours which together make our organisation what it is.

Our five core commitments are:

• We believe our customer is everything
• We are one team
• We are supportive and caring
• We are business‑minded for social purpose
• We are curious and ambitious.

In support and recognition of our colleagues who will help us deliver our employer strategy, we offer a fantastic benefits package. This includes.

• Trust based flexible working and supportive and friendly teams
• 25 days annual holiday entitlement, increasing to 30 days
• One day off for your birthday
• Opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
• A defined contribution pension scheme GSA matches up to 6% contributions
• We offer a service which provides 24/7 online GP appointments, second medical opinions, health checks, mental health support, 24/7 medical health helpline, wellbeing app, nutrition advice and fitness plans and legal and financial support.
• Access to Blue Light discount card membership
• Confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Eligible for occupational sick pay

All individuals who apply to work at GreenSquareAccord are considered on their merits in line with our Diversity and Inclusion strategy and policy. GreenSquareAccord is a Disability Confident Employer therefore we actively encourage applications from individuals with disabilities and try to provide access, adjustments, equipment or other practical support where required. All applicants with a disability who meet the ‘essential eligibility criteria’ for the role, as detailed in the job description, are guaranteed an interview. If you need any assistance, adjustments or adaptations throughout our selection processes please let us know.

For more information about this position please open the following document/s:

Documentation to be provided upon request.