Housing Standards Team Leader

Salary: £42,839 up to £47,181 per annum

Grade: L

Hours: Full Time, 37 Hours per week

Contract: Permanent

Location: Selby, North Yorkshire

Housing Standards Team Leader - Electrical

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 consists 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. we are in a significant period of transformation; this 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 trade Electrical team ensuring behavioural, quality, and safety standards are adhered to.

The core focus of this job is to assist in the management of our housing Electrical domestic installations, compliance, and repairs programme to help the Council achieve its service goals. The job will require the successful applicant to manage a team of electrical trade-based staff, advise on electrical technical issues and standards, manage the compliance of works across the council housing stock and report to the council duty holder on all matters with the council's NICEIC registration’s. delivery of new construction via a large

For more details, please see the attached job description.

What you will bring.

• You will have extensive knowledge and experience within the domestic Electrical Industry, have the relevant technical qualifications to include:
  NVQ level 3 Electrical
  C&G BS2391 Inspection and Testing or equivalent.
  18th Edition BS 7671
  SMSTS
  IOSH
  

• Management of current best practices in social housing relating to tenant safety, decent home standards along with a good solid knowledge and background in the construction industry.

• Experience in delivering quality housing repair works, a good understanding of electrical compliance, and the current requirements around the delivery of a successful programme.

• Excellent communication skills are a must, both written and oral with the ability to problem solve and find pragmatic solutions, tenant and stakeholder liaison are essential for this role, along with having an empathetic attitude and good customer service skills.

• You will have experience in 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.

• Creativity and the attitude to learn new skills within this area of work are essential as this industry is constantly evolving.

Working for us

When you join us, you are entitled to our outstanding benefits and well-being 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 karl.hankey@northyorks.gov.uk or ian.bury@northyorks.gov.uk for an informal conversation.

Key Documents

Job Description

Total Rewards Brochure

Key dates:

Closing date: 24th May 2026

Interview date: w/c 1st June 2026

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.