The Regional Surveyor will lead on all aspects of property management across a portfolio of care homes, delivering an industry leading service that is both professional and customer focussed to ensure the residents and colleagues within the homes are safe.
They will provide a responsive, professional, and helpful service to operations, being as proactive as possible to minimise property related issues within the care homes.
The role will involve:
- Ensuring the homes are fully compliant with all relevant legal and statutory PPMs.
- Working with the Property Services Manager to operate a planned preventative maintenance system for all property assets, plant, and equipment.
- Supporting the homes with the management of the maintenance personnel for the area, fulfil training needs, and recruit for vacancies.
- Planning and implementing works as approved and programmed at each site, giving direction, as necessary, to each home's maintenance operative.
- Where appropriate managing contractors to ensure subcontracted work is completely on time and sensitively.
- Planning and undertaking regular inspections of the homes ensuring all homes have the required level of support needed to deliver the works.
- Following processes and procedures in the delivery of capital works at the homes and on a need basis project manage refurbishments and/or other essential capital improvement projects.
- Undertaking annual budget surveys to set CAPEX requirements for the coming financial year.
- Working closely with the Health and Safety team wherever appropriate but specifically related to Fire Risk Assessments.
- Regularly checking maintenance records within the homes and ensure compliance
- Undertaking regular spot checks to various equipment, rooms, services et cetera to identify areas which require immediate action/attention.
- Being the point of escalation for ‘out of hours’ emergencies and participate in the weekend on call rota.
- Exercising control over property expenditure in line with budget whilst also ensuring required standards and quality are adhered to.
- Providing planning and specialist advice to operations teams.
- Ensuring full legal compliance and final sign off for all property works carried out in the homes.
- Being the point of contact and initiator or proposer of actions on area property matters with all external bodies - local authorities, CQC, insurance inspectors, third party consultants et cetera.