Multi-Disciplinary Team Lead – Building Safety Regulator – High Risk Building Regulation (BSR Band 3/ SEO)

Please note: If you are applying from either Scotland or Wales, you must be able to commute to our Cardiff, Edinburgh or Glasgow Offices.

Diverse perspectives and experiences are critical to our success, and we welcome applications from people of 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.

HSE is establishing the new Building Safety Regulator (BSR) with the intention of keeping high-risk residential buildings safe and to enable people to feel safe in their homes. 

Working with residents and industry to make sure everybody has a voice, BSR will oversee changes to the safety and performance of all buildings and raise industry professional standards year on year. 

BSR will serve as a lasting tribute to those who have lost their lives due to poor and substandard buildings and will help ensure tragedies of such proportions as Grenfell are consigned to the past.

As a Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) Lead (also known as Building Safety Regulatory Lead) you will lead and manage multiple, concurrent MDTs of regulatory partners and be responsible for the efficient and effective regulatory compliance within the High Risk Building (HRB) functions.

Within High-Risk Building (HRB) Regulation there are two distinct functions: Building Control and In-Occupation. 

The Building Control function is about ensuring HRBs are designed and built to approved standards.

The In-Occupation function includes delivery of the Building Assessment Certificate (BAC) applications to ensure building safety risks in occupied HRBs are being managed.

For both roles you will report to the Operational Delivery Team Leader (Principal Building Safety Regulator) who will oversee multiple leads across a wide geographical area.

This is an exciting time to join BSR, and as a part of this team you will be responsible for shaping an internal culture of high performance and continuous improvement and bringing about cultural change in building safety in your community today and for the future.

This role will also involve travel to sites across England therefore flexibility to be able to travel when needed for on-site visits, collaborative working, supporting and training colleagues & meetings is necessary. This may include the occasional overnight stay.

These posts can be based in any of the advertised locations, for details of HSE locations please see here 

Information Session for all candidates:

We will be holding an information session on Wednesday 29th November from 12:30 – 13:30 pm.

This session is for all candidates and will provide more information on BSR and the role. There will also be advice on the application process. The session will be on a Teams video link. Please Click here to join the meeting 

Please be advised that the above link will not be “live” until 29th November at 12.30pm

For more information, please visit our website using the following link: Building Safety Regulator- HSE 

We are looking for experienced Team Leads who are able to work collaboratively with others to deliver effective regulatory compliance for high risk residential buildings.

You will be an effective team leader and player, able to work with multi-disciplinary teams (MDTs) from partner regulators i.e.structural safety and fire and rescue services.

In the Building Control function you will be assessing the proposed buildings from design through construction to ensure compliance with approved standards and assessing their safety for occupation.

In the In-Occupation function you will assess the management of building safety risks as part of the Building Assessment Certification (BAC) process. You will also assess the resident engagement strategy ensuring that residents are central to decision making and arrangements for reporting mandatory occurrences.

For both roles:

You will lead and manage a portfolio of several applications with MDT partner regulators, ensuring that an appropriate range of technical and specialist information has been analysed and assessed. You will be responsible for making consistent decisions, with input from our MDT partners, and taking proportionate regulatory actions. This will include taking enforcement action where appropriate.

As well as being an effective team leader and player, you will need effective communication, influencing and organisational skills to deliver regulatory functions through others, monitoring and managing the performance of MDT members throughout the assessment process.

As the regulatory decision maker for all cases within your agreed portfolio, you will review MDT assessment outputs and recommendations. This will require you to have excellent analytical skills, the ability to make sound decisions and judgements and to be able to communicate those succinctly, both orally and in writing.

Experience, Knowledge and Skills required for both roles.

Experience of assessing multiple sources of information, data and evidence to determine compliance against legal standards and determining appropriate actions required to secure compliance to the required standard.

Experience of establishing professional relationships with a range of stakeholders, working in partnership with multiple stakeholders both internal and external, influencing where required to ensure outcomes are delivered.

Ability to communicate with tact, diplomacy and sensitivity when delivering difficult messages

Ability to produce clear evidence-based reports for a range of stakeholders.

For more information on acceptable qualifications please see here: https://www.gov.uk/what-different-qualification-levels-mean/list-of-qualification-levels

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

• Working Together
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Working Together

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• Competitive rates of pay
• Access to the highly competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme to which HSE contribute 27.1%, far more than in the private sector
• Family friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career
• Carer friendly policies to help create a supportive working culture
• 25 days annual holiday increasing to 30 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays and 1-day Civil Service privilege leave
• Parental leave benefits 

At HSE, we are proud to be able to offer our people the opportunity to work in a hybrid way which combines the flexibility for working from home and the office without the need for long hours/weekend working. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your allocated office will be your contractual place of work.

Job contact :

• Name : bsrvacancyquestions@hse.gov.uk
• Email : bsrvacancyquestions@hse.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : bsrvacancyquestions@hse.gov.uk