Clerk of Works WCC618772

Job Details:

Salary range: £53,109 - £72,669 per annum  
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36 
Contract type: Permanent  
Closing date: 25 October 2024 
Contact details for Informal discussion: Gary Lea, Chief Surveyor, via email: GLEA@WESTMINSTER.GOV.UK

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF SERENA’S VISION 

Growth, Planning and Housing in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where innovative and open-minded people bring everything to the cause. Even expertise from surprising places. 

Take Serena. She is an absolute force of nature at the heart of our Church Street regeneration. And she puts the residents first in everything. Serena’s vision is clear. Regeneration isn’t just about bricks and concrete. It’s about communities. It’s about the environment. It’s about the lives of people and how they feel about where they call home. Serena is their advocate, making sure residents’ voices aren’t just heard, but drive the changes we’re making. The future is safe in her hands. 

Please view the extraordinary story of Serena’s Vision here.

The Role:

As our Clerk of Works, you can make your own powerful contribution to ensuring our residents have safe, well-maintained, high-quality homes. Specifically, you will drive improvements to the delivery of repairs and related services across a number of estates, through close oversight of both contractors and our direct labour organisation. We’ll look to you to ensure an absolute focus on resident experience and customer satisfaction.  To achieve this, you will work with other senior leaders across the housing service to engage with residents on all proposals that may impact on their homes, their wider living environment and their quality of life. There’s also a strong emphasis on planning, budgeting and achieving outstanding value for money, as well as rigorous compliance with relevant legal regulatory, policy and procedural requirements. The ability to take on board and resolve challenging issues will be central to your success.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

Strong technical understanding is important, so you’re likely to have a background and relevant professional qualifications in surveying or construction. Your significant experience of managing contractors will include the ability to specify works, assure quality and analyse performance data. Budget monitoring and report-writing skills are key. You’ll also have strong customer service skills and the ability to build productive working relationships with people from diverse backgrounds. This should ideally include working with resident groups. 

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a global majority background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background, you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.   
 
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties  
 
As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.  
 
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.