Job Details:
Salary range: £42,912 - £52,269 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience.
Work location: 1 Glasgow House, Lanark Road, London, W9 1QY
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Temporary up to 12 months
Closing date: 2 October 2025
About Us:
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM
Housing and Commercial Partnerships in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where people use their vision and commitment to open doors for the next generations.
Nothing beats the feeling of helping someone find their passion. At Westminster City Council, our City Lions team helps young local people engage with culture, creativity and dreams. When they came across a lonely, isolated 16-year-old who called himself a failure, they knew what to do. They worked 1-2-1 to find the thing this boy really loved. YouTube, it turned out. But it’s impossible to turn that into a career, right? Wrong. A week later, he was enrolled on the British Film Institute film-making programme. It was the ultimate light-bulb moment. And it turned him into what he is today – a budding Spielberg with a world of opportunity at his feet.
Please view the extraordinary story of the Impossible Dream here.
The Role:
As a Voids Property Surveyor, you can make you own powerful contribution to Westminster’s success. Working as a key member of the dynamic and high-profile Housing and Commercial Partnerships team, you’ll contribute directly to improving the lives of our residents as you work to ensure our housing stock is brought back into use efficiently and to the very highest standards.
Your primary responsibility will be to oversee and ensure the timely refurbishment of void properties, and manage all aspects of the building and maintenance works required to prepare homes for new tenants. With this in mind you’ll carry out detailed inspections to identify necessary component replacements, repairs, dampness, leaks, mould and condensation, implement systems for regular checks of external and communal areas, and produce thorough pre and post-inspection reports.
Working closely with our contractors, you’ll ensure that all works are completed to the highest standards and within contractual timescales, the Council’s health and safety policies are upheld, and robust project management techniques are applied. Customer engagement and service will be key to your success, and you should be prepared to visit and inspect homes to oversee repairs and maintenance works, manage and resolve any issues or complaints that arise, and work to improve service delivery and customer satisfaction.
Please refer to the Job Description for more information.
About You:
With extensive hands-on experience as a Voids Property Surveyor, you’ll be highly organised and methodical, capable of thriving under pressure, and ready to meet tight deadlines while managing a range of conflicting demands. Skilled at analysing complex performance data to generate comprehensive reports, you should possess a thorough understanding of budget and resource management, and be an effective problem solver when dealing with major service failures and emergencies. An excellent communicator with the skills to liaise confidently with a diverse range of stakeholders, you should also have the IT skills necessary to administer workflows and manage computerised record-keeping systems.
An excellent project manager with the expertise to administer large contracts, you’ll be capable of ensuring compliance with technical standards such as health and safety regulations, and possess the ability to make complex technical decisions. With a commitment to continuous personal improvement and collaborative teamwork, you’ll bring initiative and self-drive to all aspects of this role while working in accordance with the Council’s management systems and procedures. We’ll also expect you to be a motivating and proactive leader, and as an inspirational role model you’ll be ready to foster strong partnerships and help to build a sustainable organisation that delivers great value for its residents.
Join Westminster City Council Housing as a Voids Property Surveyor and you’ll have a unique opportunity to make a real difference, working within a small, friendly team that values inclusion and collaboration. You’ll play a vital role in ensuring quality and safety for Westminster’s residents and help shape the future of our city’s homes and communities.
We’re committed to building a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and champion equality, diversity and wellbeing in everything we do. As a key member of our team, you’ll feel safe, secure and comfortable bringing your whole self to work. So if you’re passionate about making a difference, thrive in a collaborative environment, and want to be part of an organisation that celebrates diversity and inclusion, we encourage you for this 1-year fixed term contract.
Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.
What We Offer:
Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties
As a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application , we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.
We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.
