Asbestos Team Leader

The vacancy

Closing Date : Sunday 12 May 2024

Interview Date : TBC

Are you an experienced asbestos and construction professional who can lead a team of asbestos operatives to deliver a safe, high quality and compliant asbestos service to our customers… as well as ensuring your team deliver excellent customer service? If so, read on!

We have an exciting opportunity for an Asbestos Team Leader position to join our Building Safety and Compliance Team. You’ll need to have significant experience working with asbestos and be well versed in asbestos, health and safety and construction legislation. It goes without saying you’ll need to hold your UKATA accredited Licensed Asbestos Removal Supervisor Training as a minimum.

You’ll also be the deputy responsible person for the control of legionella in the workplace – however legionella experience isn’t essential, we’ll support you to get up to speed with this requirement.

You’ll need to thrive working in a fast paced, busy environment and be able to manage and prioritise a varied workload, from managing colleagues, to responding to complaints, ensuring works comply with regulatory and legal requirements, solving materials queries and much, much more… And if you can think outside of the box and bring some fresh ideas to the asbestos service, even better!

What do we offer in return?

• A competitive salary
• 37-hour week
• Great work life balance
• 27 days annual leave, plus Christmas shut-down
• A favourable local government pension scheme
• Annual leave purchase scheme
• A health cash plan
• Range of shopping and leisure discounts
• Flexible working opportunities

About whg

We are one of the Midlands’ leading and most successful providers of good quality

homes.

Our values help us to maintain a culture that helps us achieve our commitment of

supporting customers to lead happy and fulfilled lives. We want all of our people to

uphold our ambition; demonstrating the belief, enthusiasm and energy to deliver on

We want our colleagues to feel empowered to take the lead and to think creatively

and be passionate about their work.

Our People Strategy presents a clear picture of how we will achieve our Corporate Plan aim, ‘Be an exceptional place to work that attracts, develops and retains talent’. Through the People Strategy we take every opportunity to embed our values to ensure that our colleagues give the best possible service to our customers, communities and each other.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

It is important to us that we have a diverse workforce, representative of the

communities we serve. Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) to us means

colleagues living our values, dedicated to doing the right thing and exercising good

judgement. This will encourage a culture where all can thrive, acknowledging that

everyone is different; what matters to us is that everyone can come to work and feel

comfortable to be themselves.

We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer and ensure that

disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunity to

fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations while working with us. We want to

make it clear that we welcome disabled applicants for all our roles. If in doubt look

out for the Disability Confident logo.

We will ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will

interview applicants with a disability if they meet the essential criteria for a role. We

will also support existing colleagues with a disability or long-term health condition

enabling them to stay in work, making reasonable adjustments if necessary.

Our benefits

27 days annual leave

Flexible working

Health cash plan

Christmas

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Investment in learning

and development

Generous LGPS

pension