Technical Officer RQ580566 Full Time Temporary

Technical Officer needed in Loughborough £22.47 ph ref RQ580566

Full time hours on a temporary basis.

This role will involve:

• To develop appropriate schemes of adaptations to properties to meet the needs of disabled people in accordance with statutory, Charnwood BC and Lightbulb policy in consultation with colleagues and partner agencies e.g. Housing Support Coordinators, Occupational Therapists, Builders, and Architects.
• Carry out inspections at all stages of work to ensure compliance with relevant legislation and standards.
• Visiting customers in their own homes and assessing building work required.
• To prepare detailed estimates relating to eligible grants and carry out detailed surveys.
• To provide drawings for each adaptation and prepare schedules of work.
• To case manage customers through the DFG process, including carrying out financial assessments with the service user to determine grant entitlement and detail any customer contribution required.
• To consider amendments to specification, variations and applications for revised grants and keep control of the construction, maintaining effective working relationships with all parties.
• To evaluate claims for interim payments and to recommend final payments of grants which have been completed satisfactorily.

If you are interested in the role, please email your CV to beth@essentialemploy.co.uk  quoting the reference number

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