Empty Homes Inspector (Quality, safety & compliance)
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The Vacancy
We’re VIVID! – We offer a vibrant, friendly, inclusive culture that supports, develops and attracts the best people!
We’re looking for an Empty Homes Inspector to join our Empty Homes team in Hampshire! This role allows for a contractual base out of either our Portsmouth of Basingstoke office as you’ll be working across Hampshire and surrounding areas. This is a full time, permanent role, working 37 hours per week
On top of the competitive salary, you can benefit from:
- 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays), with the opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
- Use of a company van & fuel card for your work travel
- A productivity-related bonus scheme to enhance your take-home
- Uniform and PPE provided
- A generous contributory pension of 6%. We’ll match employee contributions between 7% and 10%
- Life assurance paid at x 3 annual salary
- Private medical insurance
- Health care cash plan called Medicash
- Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
- Access to counselling, legal and financial information
- Electric car scheme
- Huge variety of in-house & e-learning courses and a range of coaching and mentoring programmes
Here’s the facts about the role:
As Empty Homes Inspector, you’ll be helping us deliver safe, high-quality homes ready for new customers. In this role, you’ll be the onsite quality assurance presence for all of our Empty/Void properties - making sure works are completed safely, to specification, and to a right first time standard. You’ll carry out inspections, monitor contractor performance, and ensure every home meets HHSRS, and building safety requirements before handover.
What you’ll be doing (non-exhaustive list):
- Carrying out mid-void, post-void, and weekly inspections on empty homes, ensuring compliance with gas, electrical, asbestos, fire safety, and water hygiene requirements
- Ensuring all properties meet standards such as (Decant, HHSRS, Awaab’s Law) and organisational specifications before letting
- Monitoring contractor performance, challenging poor workmanship, and ensuring defects are resolved quickly
- Completing joint inspections with contractors and maintaining accurate, consistent inspection reports
- Working closely with our lettings and neighbourhood teams to ensure smooth, timely handovers
- Providing feedback and progress updates to managers and contributing to improvements in void standards, processes, and cost efficiency
- Supporting a strong health and safety culture through regular inspections and risk assessment awareness.
We’re looking for someone with experience in property inspections, housing maintenance/repairs, or a similar technical role. You’ll have a solid understanding of void standards, building safety, and compliance areas. You’ll have strong attention to detail and the ability to inspect and identify defects or issues. You’ll have the interpersonal skills and confidence to work with contractors and other stakeholders and challenge poor workmanship where you see it. You’ll also have the ability to produce clear, accurate reports and will be competent using IT devices. In this role you’ll utilise your excellent communication skills, good organisational skills, and a practical, solution focused approach, helping us to deliver a high-quality service to our customers.
A full, clean current driving licence (held for at least 1 year) is needed so you can drive one of our vans when necessary. Offers are subject to satisfactory driving licence checks.
Interviews are due to take place Monday 16 March (subject to change).
The Company
We're a leading provider of affordable homes and extensive support services in the south of England. We believe that everyone has the right to a safe and secure place to call home, and from the moment customers move into their VIVID home we’re here to help with that and more.
Our customers have access to a wide range of tailored advice to sustain their tenancies and look after their wellbeing. We invest in our homes and communities for the long-term, and this means in the quality, safety and energy efficiency of existing homes and neighbourhoods, with a firm focus on improving services so they’re easy to use and access by our customers.
We’re addressing the shortage of affordable housing in the south, building the right type of homes to meet the needs of our local communities. We’re the sixth largest developer of new homes amongst housing associations in England, having built over 1,500 last year.
This is summed up in our vision “More homes, bright futures”.
Living VIVID
As a ‘people’ business, we work hard to create a high-performing and fun working environment. We invest in our people’s development, whilst looking after their wellbeing with our award-winning initiatives.
Buy / sell
annual leave
Pension
scheme
Smart
working
From 26 days holiday per year
Private medical / medicash benefits
Enhanced
paternity / maternity leave
Qualification funding support
Electric car scheme
We’re committed to diversity and inclusion, and want people from all walks of life to apply for our vacancies.
We’re a disability confident leader with disabled-friendly offices and we’ll make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to help you; please note your needs on your application form.
If you need additional support with your application, please get in touch with us
on 02392 896758 or email HRrecruitment@vividhomes.co.uk. We’ll be happy to help.
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