Salary: £42,839 - £47,181 per annum
Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Selby, North Yorkshire with the expectation to visit sites across the county
Housing Standards Team Leader (Safety Team)
Our Service
The purpose of our Service is to provide quality, affordable, healthy and sustainable homes that meet the present and future needs of all our tenants.
The Housing Standards team is made up of five closely linked areas of housing expertise i.e., construction, repairs, improvements, contract management and safety. Each team consisting of suitably qualified, skilled, and experienced trade operatives, surveyors, or contract supervisors.
The role
As a Team Leader, you are fundamental to ensuring the successful delivery of the Housing Service. As we enter a significant period of transformation, this newly created role requires a proactive and pragmatic approach to ensure the council’s housing assets meet current and future statutory and regulatory requirements. You will manage and motivate a locality-based team, promoting high behavioural, quality and safety standards, and ensuring these are consistently adhered to.
The core focus of this role is to lead and manage a team of Surveyors, overseeing stock condition surveys, fire risk assessments, and the investigation of disrepair claims, ensuring the delivery of regulatory service standards across our portfolio of assets in line with Housing service levels, plans and strategies. This includes applying a strong knowledge of construction processes, materials and methods, alongside the ability to read and interpret drawings and plans to support effective decision-making and delivery.
You will bring proven experience in a construction supervisory or team leader role, with excellent leadership and communication skills that enable you to effectively manage workloads, prioritise tasks and drive team performance. A strong understanding of health and safety legislation, with relevant qualifications such as CSCS and SMSTS or SSSTS preferred, will be essential in maintaining compliance and ensuring a safe working environment.
In addition, you will demonstrate a problem-solving mindset with a proactive approach, enabling you to respond to challenges efficiently and support the continuous improvement of service delivery across the housing portfolio.
For more details please see the attached job description.
What you will bring.
You will have knowledge of current best practice in social housing relating to tenant safety and the decent home standard. Experience in delivering quality housing repair works along with excellent customer service skills.
You will have experience of managing a team with the ability to effectively prioritise, plan and organise workloads to ensure deadlines and targets are met. manage change and deliver continuous improvement.
Excellent communication skills are a must, both written and oral with the ability to problem solve and find pragmatic solutions.
Working for us
When you join us, you are entitled to our outstanding benefits and wellbeing plan as part of your position. Our holiday entitlement starts at 28 days rising to 34 days (pro-rata) per year with continued service, plus public holidays. Pension: for your retirement with our generous local government pension scheme with a 22.6% contribution. Fitness & Rewards: Fitness discounts with various Gyms across the county. Stay on top of your game and £££. Lifestyle Savings: explore a huge range of discounts to help you money across hundreds of the UK’s favourite high-street and online retailers. Plus lots more…
Contact and apply
If you would like to learn more about our role please contact [email protected] for an informal conversation.
Key dates:
Closing date: 21st June 2026
Interview date: w/c 6th July 2026
Key Documents:
Job Description.docx
Total Rewards
NYC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.
We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to this commitment.
North Yorkshire Councils’ purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.
