Building Control Professional Secondment (BSR Band 3/SEO)

Details

Reference number

266353

Salary

£39,334 - £45,865 If successful, you will remain employed by your current employer and HSE will agree the arrangements for reimbursement with them

Job grade

Senior Executive Officer Band 3

Contract type

Secondment

Length of employment

Temporary opportunity for 12 months with a possible extension to 2 years

Business area

HSE - Building Safety Regulator (BSR) - Construction and Building Safety Division Oversight and Competence Workstreams

Type of role

Operational Delivery

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

3

Contents

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About the job

Benefits

Things you need to know

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Location

East Midlands (England), East of England, North East England, North West England, Scotland, South East England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber

About the job

Job summary

Diverse perspectives and experiences are critical to our success and we welcome applications from all people from all backgrounds with the experience and skills needed to perform this role. We look forward to receiving your application

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the independent regulator for work-related health and safety. Our purpose is to prevent workplace death, injury or ill health. In order to achieve this, we have responsibility for setting the strategy, policy and legal framework for health and safety in Great Britain.

HSE is working closely with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) and the Home Office (HO) in supporting the Government’s Building Safety Programme (BSP). This will implement Dame Judith Hackitt’s recommendations to establish a new, stronger regulatory regime following the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

As part of this, HSE has been tasked with establishing the new Building Safety Regulator (BSR) and implementing the new building safety regime.

The BSR will be responsible for:

• Ensuring delivery of the new regulatory regime for higher risk buildings,
• Oversight of the built environment, setting standards, providing advice to industry, and advising Government on changes to the scope of the new regime
• Overseeing work to drive increased competence of professions and trades working on buildings.
• Establishing building control as a regulated, unified profession.

This is a long-term policy and operational transformation programme and will continue beyond 2022/23. It provides the opportunity for colleagues outside of HSE to contribute to, and experience working in, an exciting and high-profile area of Government policy that aims to ensure that people living in high-rise buildings are both safe, and feel safe, as well as to build an understanding of a regulatory environment that has not traditionally been within HSE’s area of expertise.

Job description

The HSE is to recruit 3 experienced building control professionals to develop policy and processes to help establish the Building Safety Regulator and new regulatory regime. The secondments are for 12 months with possible extensions to 2 years.

The main focus of the position within the Competence workstream is to support the development of the new building control competence framework and criteria for registration of the profession.

Within the Oversight workstream, you will support the development of performance standards relating to organisational structure, resourcing, management of building control risks and good building control process management.

The secondees will bring their knowledge and experience of the challenges faced by the profession to develop evidence-based policy proposals for HSE senior management and government ministers. Stakeholder engagement is a key part of this process, and the position will involve travel across the UK to meet with stakeholders and others with occasional overnight stays.

The job is currently advertised at Senior Executive Officer level (band 3). The successful candidates will retain their current status and conditions with their employer, including salary.

HSE is committed to providing a supportive and inclusive working environment and we particularly welcome BAME/disabled/LGBT+ applicants as they are currently underrepresented in this discipline within HSE objectives.

Key responsibilities

• Provide expert advice and guidance from an established building control perspective.
• Work as part of a team to develop evidence-based policy proposals, including drafting advice and providing briefings to HSE senior management and Ministers.
• Lead the delivery of the projects and workstreams you are responsible for to agreed objectives and timescales
• Represent HSE’s interests at stakeholder meetings and cross-Government departmental meetings

Person specification

The main focus of the work will be to provide your building control expertise and experience to the Oversight and Competence workstreams. Your knowledge of the challenges faced by the profession will be significant to the development of the work to oversee the performance of the building control profession and drive improvements in building safety.

Essential Experience

• An experienced building control professional with a comprehensive understanding of the profession, building control regulations and processes
• Sound analytical skills to identify underlying issues

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Delivering at Pace
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Communicating and Influencing

Benefits

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

Hybrid Working Policy

HSE is committed to introducing hybrid working. The key features of this approach are:

• a range of flexible working options
• work environments that enable the greatest flexibility
• technologies that support the practice and management of hybrid working
• new forms of flexible collaboration that enable people to work together across locations
• culture change to enable greater organisational agility and innovation
• a trust-based culture that focuses on management by results rather than presence

Hybrid working enables employees to work partly in the workplace, (ie the employee’s designated office) and partly at home.

Agreeing to hybrid working arrangements does not affect an employee’s ability to make a formal flexible working request.

This policy does not cover arrangements where the employee is a contractual home worker.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Application:

As part of your application, you will be asked to complete your CV and a Personal Statement (no more than 500 words) that demonstrates how you meet the experience, knowledge and skills of the job advert.

Please Note - you MUST have your Line Managers prior agreement that if successful after interview that you can be released within 6 weeks of a post being offered

Application Guidance:

Please access the following link for guidance on how to apply and how to complete a Personal Statement https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/how-to-apply/

Sift:

The sift will take place on 16th February 2023 where you will be assessed on your CV and Personal Statement

Interviews:

The interviews will take place on a date between 1st March 2023 where you will be assessed on the Behaviours outlined in the job advert.

Further Information

If you have a disability and you need an application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please contact: hr.resourcing-team@hse.gov.uk

Please note, if you are a current civil servant and you are currently undergoing any of the following formal actions your application will not be progressed any further;
Formal discipline action, any formal action regarding attendance, poor performance or any restriction of duties as a result of disciplinary action.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
• certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : Lisa Chappell Email : lisa.chappell@hse.gov.uk

Recruitment team :

Email : hr.resourcing-team@hse.gov.uk

Further information

If you believe that Civil Service Commission principles of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of Fair and Open competition have not been met, you can raise a complaint by emailing: HR.Resourcing-Team@hse.gov.uk or by writing to HSE at the following address: HR Resourcing Team, 2.3 Redgrave Court, Merton Road, Bootle, Merseyside, L20 7HS. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact Civil Service commissioners:

https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/code/civilservicecodecomplaints/