Health & Safety Officer
- Full time
- £43,304
- Hybrid: Edinburgh / Bellshill / Inverness / Irvine or Thurso
- Closing 1st April 2026
- Advertised from 11th March 2026
- 34.5 hours per week. Permanent.
Role
Join our team as a Health & Safety Officer!
At Cairn Housing Association, we’re passionate about creating great homes, delivering great services, and offering great opportunities for our people.
Cairn is currently recruiting for Health & Safety Officer and Compliance Officer roles as part of our strong commitment to Health and Safety legal compliance and the safety of our staff and tenants across the Association. These are varied and fast-paced roles and ideal for someone who enjoys being visible and influencing a positive, proactive, safety culture.
Health and Safety Officer
Reporting to the Health and Safety (H&S) Manager, this role will be responsible for leading on H&S initiatives across Cairn. This will include our corporate H&S strategy, including policy and procedure development, risk management, carrying out H&S audits, incident reviews, training, project work and administration. The role will work with internal and external stakeholders in a collaborative approach to develop safe systems of work and processes based on legislation and best practice.
Requirements – What We’re Looking For:
- NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent as a minimum and preferably NEBOSH Diploma or willing to achieve this level
- IOSH membership at professional grades or willing to achieve this level
- Comprehensive knowledge of H&S law and legislation
- Extensive knowledge and experience of working at Officer level in a H&S service within an equivalent sized employer
- Experience of a broad range of H&S areas relevant to the role, including risk assessments and high-risk areas such as the ‘big 7’ and other relevant risk areas for a Registered Social Landlord
- Demonstratable project management skills
- Ability to support our staff across a Scotland wide operation
- IT Literate in the use of IT programs and health and safety systems and proficient in Microsoft Office
We value diversity and warmly welcome applications from all communities. Cairn is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.
Application notes
For more information, and to apply, please visit our website.
Closing Date:April 1, 2026 12:00 pm
Compliance Officer
- Full time
- £46,063
- Hybrid: Inverness Preferred / other offices considered: Edinburgh / Bellshill / Irvine / Thurso
- Closing 1st April 2026
At Cairn Housing Association, we’re passionate about creating great homes, delivering great services, and offering great opportunities for our people.
Cairn is currently recruiting for Health & Safety Officer and Compliance Officer roles as part of our strong commitment to Health and Safety legal compliance and the safety of our staff and tenants across the Association. These are varied and fast-paced roles and ideal for someone who enjoys being visible and influencing a positive, proactive safety culture.
Reporting to the Compliance Manager this role will be responsible the planning and delivery of the Landlord Compliance activities through the management and administration of planned servicing activities, as well as responsibility for resolution any areas of non-compliance.
This includes liaison with colleagues in Maintenance, Investment and Health and Safety to advise on satisfactory solutions and ensure requirements are met. Officers will coordinate and monitor performance of service providers through a combination of external contracts or internal SLAs.
Key Responsibilities – What You’ll Do:
Specification & Procurement
- Lead on the development and specifications of compliance activities
- Undertake procurement exercises in line with regulatory requirements, procuring contracts and services to meet Cairn’s requirements
Data
- Ensure that the Group’s compliance data records are maintained as accurate, accessible and up to date
- Verify all necessary certification and evidence captured and retained in order to demonstrate compliance at all times
Policies & Procedures
- Assist the Leadership Team in the periodic review, amendment and implementation of policies and procedures as required
- Uphold a consistently high standard of service delivery and ensure compliance of statutory regulations, legal requirements and relevant codes of practice, guidance and good practice are achieved.
Contractor Management
- Ensure that Health and Safety legislation, guidance and good practice are strictly adhered to
- Manage and oversee the delivery of external contracts in the role of client project manager
- Perform inspection, instruction and supervision of planned maintenance works
- Lead on project progress reporting for planned compliance projects
- Review, monitor and report on contractor and consultant service delivery and performance
- Ensure all appropriate policies and procedures are consistently applied and implemented to specifications
- Drive compliance to demonstrate the quality of works comply with industry standards, statutory regulations, guidance, good practice and Cairn HA standards
Budget Management
- Monitor budgets for Compliance activities in conjunction with the Compliance Manager
- Exercise financial control in line with delegated authority levels
Line Management
- Provide support and guidance to Assistants in delivery of compliance activities
- Monitor and oversee performance in line with Cairn performance reviews, training requirements and target setting
Strategic Planning
- Produce reports to Compliance Manager to inform the strategic compliance and asset management planning process
- Participate in the specification and proposal of programmes of work to deliver compliance activities
Requirements – What We’re Looking For:
- Relevant building or construction related qualification to HND level
- Comprehensive knowledge of H&S law and legislation
- Demonstratable project management skills
- Knowledge of the Scottish Housing Regulator’s Performance Standards
- IT Literate in the use of housing management/CRM systems and proficient in Microsoft Office
About Harbour:
Harbour Homes is Leith and north Edinburgh’s biggest social landlord, providing thousands of affordable homes from Portobello to Granton and everywhere in between. We’ve been contributing to the regeneration of local areas since 1975, and it’s our mission to: ‘make a positive impact on people’s lives from our home in Leith by providing affordable homes and services,and helping to support resilient communities.’
Harbour Homes is part of Harbour which also includes its subsidiaries Harbour Lettings, Harbour Multi-Trades and Harbour Connections.
About the role:
This role is ideal for someone who loves Leith and north Edinburgh as much as we do, and who has a strong track record of developing effective multi-channel communications and marketing campaigns.
You will be working with colleagues across Harbour to position our brand, create engaging content and deliver important messages to our stakeholders in the local community.
In this interesting and varied role, you will be joining us following a period of transition as we roll out our new organisational structure. You will be playing a key role in developing our internal communications strategy to support our new ways of working.
At Harbour, colleagues carry out their roles in line with Harbour values.
About you:
- You have 2-3 years’ experience in a communications and/or marketing role
- You are educated to Degree level or equivalent (SCQF Level 9) in communications, marketing or a related discipline
- You are a confident communicator who can foster good working relationships
- You have excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities at once
Disclosure:
A level 1 disclosure check is required. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Top job! Housing and Customer Support Manager
- Full time
- £51,075 – £55,259
- Hybrid: Inverclyde
- Closing 23rd March 2026
Cloch’s vision is to deliver services that exceed expectations - and this role is central to achieving that. As our Housing and Customer Support Manager, you’ll lead the Customer Support Team and Assistant Housing Officers, ensuring tenants receive excellent, consistent, and compassionate service from first contact through to tenancy sustainment.
Working closely with the Director of Customer Services and Communities and Housing Manager, you will take the lead on:
- Customer Contact & Service Quality: ensuring a responsive, high‑quality first‑point‑of‑contact experience where customers feel supported and heard.
- Allocations, Voids & Estate Management: overseeing effective processes that minimise void loss, maintain high standards and support sustainable tenancies.
- Performance & Compliance: monitoring KPIs, supporting regulatory returns, ensuring adherence to the Scottish Social Housing Charter, and producing meaningful performance insight.
- Team Leadership: coaching, motivating, and developing staff through a behaviour‑led approach that encourages growth, innovation, and accountability.
- Continuous Improvement: identifying opportunities to streamline processes, enhance customer experience and champion new ways of working.
This is a two‑year fixed‑term role, but we expect the position to be reviewed in due course - offering a unique opportunity to shape how customer and housing services evolve at Cloch. The role is full‑time (35 hours per week) with a salary of £51,075 – £55,259 (Grade 8), hybrid working, 8 weeks’ annual leave (29 days + 11 public holidays), SHAPS pension scheme and a range of wellbeing benefits.
The full job description and person specification for the post can be found within our recruitment pack and downloaded via our website here
Working at Cloch
It’s an exciting time to join Cloch Housing Association as we continue to strengthen our services and support communities across Inverclyde. Guided by our values - Be Better, Be Kind, Be Responsible, Be Positive - we foster a collaborative, supportive culture where colleagues thrive, ideas are welcomed and improvement is part of everyday working life.
We are proud of our Customer Service Excellence accreditation and remain committed to delivering services that make a meaningful difference to tenants.
How to Fit at Cloch
Fit matters to us - not just what you do, but how you work. You’ll thrive at Cloch if you:
- Lead through coaching, encouragement, and empowerment.
- Bring curiosity and a willingness to try new approaches.
- Communicate openly and honestly, building trust and collaboration.
- Promote a positive, supportive environment.
- Use insight and feedback to guide balanced, thoughtful decisions.
- Reflect our values in your everyday approach.
Top job! Senior Technical Officers (x2 posts)
- Full time
- £51,075 – £55,259
- On site: Glasgow
- Closing 23rd March 2026
Glasgow West Housing Association Ltd is a voluntary, not for profit organisation and a registered charity. With history dating back to 1978, we have a vision of shaping thriving communities. We own over 1500 rented properties; and through our trading subsidiary (Glasgow West Enterprises Ltd), we provide property factoring services to just over 600 domestic and commercial properties.
We are seeking to appoint two experienced, highly motivated and enthusiastic Senior Technical Officers to join our Technical Division, supporting our ambitious investment plans across component replacement, major fabric repairs (including preventative maintenance and incident response, and common repairs), net-zero initiatives and cyclical maintenance projects with a view to ensuring Scottish Housing Quality Standards (SHQS) compliance, enhancing the quality of our homes, ensuring resident satisfaction, improving our neighbourhoods and preservation of our tenemental heritage.
These are dynamic, hands-on roles involving site visits, stakeholder engagement, procurement activity, and collaborative working across multiple partners and disciplines. You will act as client representative in contract management, ensure regulatory and health & safety compliance, and deliver high standards of customer service and performance.
The key tasks identified in the respective role profiles are reflective of a dual focus and service need.
A relevant professional or vocational qualification (HND/SCQF level 8 or above) is desirable.
In return, GWHA offer generous EVH Terms and Conditions including:
- 25 days annual leave and 15 public holidays, with additional leave purchase option.
- Flexible working practices including flexi time, home working, enhanced occupational maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
- Defined contribution pension scheme
- Ongoing professional development & training opportunities
- Cycle to work scheme
- Travel to work loan scheme & discounted bus travel
- Specific GWHA benefits including; annual service commitment award, long service award and additional festive leave
- Death in Service Benefit
Post subject to satisfactory Disclosure Check.
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