Job Ref: 215600786

Date: 2022-01-19 09:48:42

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The Vacancy

Salary circa £36.5k p/a dep on skills, Quals & Exp + Excellent Benefits, Hybrid Working

(F/T 37 hrs Mon-Fri – flexibility on start & finish times, we would consider 4 days p/w for the right candidate)

About the role

This is a great opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic candidate, where your positive attitude and consultative approach are more important than experience and qualifications. Responsibilities include supporting our business on the completion of Compliant Type 1 Fire Risk Assessments to a pre-determined programme, providing advice to colleagues in the business on fire related matters. Paradigm’s priority is the safety of residents and colleagues and in that respect the role will also include working with residents directly and providing solutions for fire safety issues they may have, such as Person-Centred Fire Risk Assessments and Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans. This vacancy has arisen due to retirement of the current post holder and is a really good opportunity for someone who wants to develop their career in this field.

The FRA is part of a small, specialised team within the Compliance department and this post is responsible to the Fire Risk Assessment Manager. As fire safety is a core activity you will forge relationships and support colleagues from all areas of the business.  There will be a requirement to visit sites across the full area in which Paradigm operates and writing up reports in a timely and accurate manner. It is therefore essential that you have a full current driving licence and a car.

Where could this role take you?

This is a permanent role in a core team and in this changing environment the successful candidate will be supported to undertake training and continuing personal development to ensure their skill set manages the requirement.

About you

We are looking for someone with great enthusiasm for fire safety and a passion for excellent service who has experience in carrying out fire risk assessments or has the demonstrable analytical and report writing skills to become a fire risk assessor to join the team. Working via a mixture of office, remote and homeworking, you will be largely working independently to a standard set and monitored within the business. With this in mind, experience/knowledge of fire safety in a Housing environment is essential.

Our ideal candidate has experience in carrying out fire risk assessments in housing and already is a member of a nationally recognised organisation or demonstrates the skills necessary to quickly become competent after training is provided. We are looking for someone with experience in carrying Fire Risk Assessment or has a demonstrable understanding of the skills and knowledge of the process and is prepared to undergo training. Any candidate not fully competent at the time of recruitment will not attract the full wage until such time as they are fully competent in the role.

We do have a comprehensive personal and professional development suite available to all of our employees. So not only is this a great opportunity to join a high performing and specialist team at a time when you can have a real and personal impact on the future success of our business, you can continue to grow and develop yourself, building an exciting/interesting/rewarding career with a growing business. The successful candidate will have a full driving license (preferably clean), and daily access to a car to carry out the role. (Business mileage, less home to work, will be paid at the prevailing rate).

A reasonable level of physical fitness is required for the role as there will be some carrying of ladders as the role involves accessing roof voids as part of the risk assessment process, ensuring Health and Safety Requirements are met at all times.

About us

We are a Best Companies 1 STAR accredited organisation in recognition of our high employee engagement and offer a welcoming and friendly environment. We are clearly focussed on the delivery of our five-year corporate plan with ambitious and challenging objectives including improving our environment and sustainability targets to deliver quality homes to people who need them.

We offer a very generous package including the following:

Holidays – 25 days to start (this rises with service to a maximum of 30 days) plus 3 paid days between Xmas and new year when we close, plus the opportunity to buy up to another 5 days – subject to conditions
Pension scheme: employee minimum contribution of 3% and Paradigm will contribute 7.5% or 9.5% depending on the employee’s contribution rate.
Annual Bonus potential
Professional Sponsorship Scheme (subject to conditions) and professional subscriptions paid
Family Friendly policies incl generous Paternity, Maternity, Shared parental and adoption leave, sabbaticals and more
Health Cash Plan – worth over £1,800 p/a includes Dental, Optical, Prescriptions and Flu jabs, Physiotherapy, Chiropractic therapy, Reflexology, Sports massage and more. It’s free to add up to 4 dependent children aged up to 24yrs (if in f/t education) and each child is entitled to 50% worth of your allowance for each category!
Remote hybrid working (as per Government guidelines we are working remotely at time of publication) 
Up to 3 paid Volunteer days a year
Newly created modern offices collaborative offices, with free parking and charging electric vehicle charging points for vehicles
Car Leasing scheme (subject to conditions)
Rewards platform
Opportunities for career advancement – if that’s what you want, but it’s fine if you don’t
Social events, such as Quiz nights, Xmas Party, Summer BBQ (Covid permitting)

We support flexible working and welcome applications from all sections of the communities we work in shortlisting will be conducted in line with the essential and desirable criteria set out in the person specification.

If the above appeals to you, apply today and/or pass on these vacancy details to someone who may also fit the bill. What have you got to lose?

Further information

For the full job description and person specification for the role please see the attachment at the bottom of this page. Should you have any queries about this vacancy please email (url removed) and we will respond as soon as possible.

As part of our application process, we ask for a covering statement and CV so we can assess your application against our essential and desired criteria as set out in the job description and person specification. Please include in your covering statement how you meet the criteria so we can see how well you match our requirements and give your application the consideration it deserves.

Thank you for your interest in Paradigm Housing Group thus far.

Shortlisting will be conducted in line with the essential and desirable criteria set out in the person specification. We reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published date should a suitable candidate be identified.

The Company

We are Paradigm Housing Group. 

We manage more than 15,000 homes across the South East.

We know that house prices in the areas where we work are high, both to buy and rent. We want to help more people have a safe and sustainable home that they can afford.

As a charity, the money we make goes into building new homes and providing an excellent service for residents

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