Head of Strategic Building Safety
Company
Location
Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
5/8/2025
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Description
Title: Head of Strategic Building Safety
Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time
Location: Reporting office West Ham Lane, Stratford or Trafford, Manchester and homeworking (Agile -office based 20-40%) with occasional travel to offices.
Persona: Agile, Office based 20-40%
Salary: London weighted £90,500 pa and Outside London/Regional £79,500 pa depending on experience and location
Closing date for completed applications:18th May 2025 at 23:59
Interviews will be held on: 28th-29th May 2025 on Microsoft Teams
At L&Q, we believe passionately that people’s health, security and happiness depend on the place they call home, and our purpose is to provide homes and neighbourhoods that everyone can be proud of.
It is an exciting time to join us. Building Safety a key national and political priority, and this will be your opportunity to provide strategic organisational leadership on the interpretation, application, implementation and monitoring of the building safety regime for our residents, non-resident leaseholders and building users. We have around 250,000 residents in more than 105,000 homes across London, the South East and North West of England. We are the Principal Accountable Person for over 220 Higher Risk Buildings.
We are now seeking an experienced Head of Strategic Building Safety professional to join us and lead our strategic building safety team . This role and the team you will lead are vital in making sure that L&Q meets it’s various obligations and duties, which arose from the Building Safety Act (BSA) and associated secondary legislation, as it relating to the L&Q Group portfolio.
Alongside Developing, maintaining, updating and improving policies and other arrangements, underpinned by L&Q’s Occupational Health and Safety Management System (SMS) and Fire Risk Management System (FRMS) with the aim of ensuring that the organisation can demonstrate that it is fulfilling all of its legal / regulatory requirements. You and your team will provide the second line of defence service by overseeing the operational delivery of services required to meet the statutory duties.
You will maintain standards and policy around Building Safety duty holder responsibilities and liaising with and being the primary point of contact with the Building Safety Regulator.
You will have a passion for building safety and will echo the organisational culture to getting it right, managing risk, to ensure that L&Q are delivering on it’s obligations.
This key role will provide strategic building safety leadership across our organisation, whilst actively focussing on building trust and increasing the satisfaction of our residents. You will also be confident in building strong stakeholder relationships, as the key contact for the Building Safety Regulator, and MHCLG
The successful candidate must also have a good understanding, ideally with experience, of the Accountable Persons and Building Safety Manager roles. Being a champion for the resident voice they will ensure our strategies have at the heart the need for strong engagement with customers on matters relating to building safety.
The Successful Candidate Will Be Required To Have
We value diversity in all its facets, including gender, disability, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation and identity. When it comes to finding a diverse balance for our senior positions, we have decided to address gender and ethnicity first. As such we are committed to offering an interview to at least one ethnic minority candidate and one female candidate for all senior leadership positions if they fulfill the role criteria.
At the foundation of everything that we do are our corporate values and associated behaviours. Our organisational behavioural framework outlines the core expectations of all employees, which should be demonstrated at all times when representing L&Q.
More information about L&Q’s values can be found on our website and a copy of our behavioural framework can be provided on request.
Our Commitments
At L&Q, people are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. This is why we are committed to developing our people. It's only by investing in a well-trained and motivated workforce that we can continue to prosper and sustain business success.
In addition to our support and training, the successful candidate will have access to our full suite of benefits including 28 days holiday rising to 31 days with length of service, excellent Pension scheme, an employee assistance programme and non-contributory life assurance .
For the fifth year in a row, we have been recognised as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women in the super large category.
We are recognised externally for our commitment to inclusion. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident (Committed) employer and have signed the Time to Change Employer Pledge to demonstrate our commitment to end mental health discrimination in the workplace.
We expect all of our employees to support our environmental policy and social responsibility work. We are an employer committed to environmental and social responsibility.
L&Q is a regulated charitable housing association and one of the UK’s most successful independent social businesses. The L&Q Group houses around 250,000 people in more than 100,000 homes, primarily across London and the South East.
As a charitable organisation, our role goes beyond providing homes and housing services. We are a long-term partner in the neighbourhoods where we work. We hope to build aspiration, opportunity and confidence in our communities through our £250 million L&Q Foundation and our skills academy.
Our vision is that everyone has a quality home they can afford, and we combine our social purpose with commercial drive to create homes and neighbourhoods everyone can be proud of.
Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time
Location: Reporting office West Ham Lane, Stratford or Trafford, Manchester and homeworking (Agile -office based 20-40%) with occasional travel to offices.
Persona: Agile, Office based 20-40%
Salary: London weighted £90,500 pa and Outside London/Regional £79,500 pa depending on experience and location
Closing date for completed applications:18th May 2025 at 23:59
Interviews will be held on: 28th-29th May 2025 on Microsoft Teams
- Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.
At L&Q, we believe passionately that people’s health, security and happiness depend on the place they call home, and our purpose is to provide homes and neighbourhoods that everyone can be proud of.
It is an exciting time to join us. Building Safety a key national and political priority, and this will be your opportunity to provide strategic organisational leadership on the interpretation, application, implementation and monitoring of the building safety regime for our residents, non-resident leaseholders and building users. We have around 250,000 residents in more than 105,000 homes across London, the South East and North West of England. We are the Principal Accountable Person for over 220 Higher Risk Buildings.
We are now seeking an experienced Head of Strategic Building Safety professional to join us and lead our strategic building safety team . This role and the team you will lead are vital in making sure that L&Q meets it’s various obligations and duties, which arose from the Building Safety Act (BSA) and associated secondary legislation, as it relating to the L&Q Group portfolio.
Alongside Developing, maintaining, updating and improving policies and other arrangements, underpinned by L&Q’s Occupational Health and Safety Management System (SMS) and Fire Risk Management System (FRMS) with the aim of ensuring that the organisation can demonstrate that it is fulfilling all of its legal / regulatory requirements. You and your team will provide the second line of defence service by overseeing the operational delivery of services required to meet the statutory duties.
You will maintain standards and policy around Building Safety duty holder responsibilities and liaising with and being the primary point of contact with the Building Safety Regulator.
You will have a passion for building safety and will echo the organisational culture to getting it right, managing risk, to ensure that L&Q are delivering on it’s obligations.
This key role will provide strategic building safety leadership across our organisation, whilst actively focussing on building trust and increasing the satisfaction of our residents. You will also be confident in building strong stakeholder relationships, as the key contact for the Building Safety Regulator, and MHCLG
The successful candidate must also have a good understanding, ideally with experience, of the Accountable Persons and Building Safety Manager roles. Being a champion for the resident voice they will ensure our strategies have at the heart the need for strong engagement with customers on matters relating to building safety.
The Successful Candidate Will Be Required To Have
- CIOB level 6 Diploma in Building Safety Management or be working towards achieving it.
- Degree level education or equivalent in the relevant field or membership with a relevant professional body (such as IOSH, IFE, RICS, CIOB) or similar membership body with relation to the built environment and building safety would be equally adequate.
- Demonstrable relevant building safety experience gained within a multi-site, housing sector environment
- Manage and develop a team, creating an overarching, robust strategy with the foresight to innovate.
- Experience of managing a range of stakeholders and working at a senior management level to achieve results and developing positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders, residents and regulatory bodies
- Positive and collaborative approach to service delivery, providing excellence in customer service in line with L&Q’s values
- Financial and commercial acumen
- Experience in demonstrating effective strategic oversight
- Excellent written and verbal communications and influencing skills, with demonstrable experience delivering building safety training
- Able to disseminate complex information in simple terms
- Analytical approach to work with strong organisational skills
- Membership with IFSM, IFPO or IFE
We value diversity in all its facets, including gender, disability, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation and identity. When it comes to finding a diverse balance for our senior positions, we have decided to address gender and ethnicity first. As such we are committed to offering an interview to at least one ethnic minority candidate and one female candidate for all senior leadership positions if they fulfill the role criteria.
At the foundation of everything that we do are our corporate values and associated behaviours. Our organisational behavioural framework outlines the core expectations of all employees, which should be demonstrated at all times when representing L&Q.
More information about L&Q’s values can be found on our website and a copy of our behavioural framework can be provided on request.
Our Commitments
At L&Q, people are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. This is why we are committed to developing our people. It's only by investing in a well-trained and motivated workforce that we can continue to prosper and sustain business success.
In addition to our support and training, the successful candidate will have access to our full suite of benefits including 28 days holiday rising to 31 days with length of service, excellent Pension scheme, an employee assistance programme and non-contributory life assurance .
For the fifth year in a row, we have been recognised as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women in the super large category.
We are recognised externally for our commitment to inclusion. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident (Committed) employer and have signed the Time to Change Employer Pledge to demonstrate our commitment to end mental health discrimination in the workplace.
We expect all of our employees to support our environmental policy and social responsibility work. We are an employer committed to environmental and social responsibility.
L&Q is a regulated charitable housing association and one of the UK’s most successful independent social businesses. The L&Q Group houses around 250,000 people in more than 100,000 homes, primarily across London and the South East.
As a charitable organisation, our role goes beyond providing homes and housing services. We are a long-term partner in the neighbourhoods where we work. We hope to build aspiration, opportunity and confidence in our communities through our £250 million L&Q Foundation and our skills academy.
Our vision is that everyone has a quality home they can afford, and we combine our social purpose with commercial drive to create homes and neighbourhoods everyone can be proud of.
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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