Senior Technical Officer (DFG)

MMP Consultancy currently have an opportunity for a Senior Technical Officer (DFG) to join a local authority in the South West. This will be a interim position on a 6-9 Month contract paying £49 P/H Umbrella. Job Purpose: The purpose of the role is to manage clients' applications for Disabled Facilities Grants, loans and repair grants, including designing and organising schemes ensuring the property meets the needs of individuals and the Decent Homes Standard. Role Responsibilities: Understand, uphold, and promote the aims of the council's equality, diversity, and inclusion policies; health, safety, and wellbeing of self and other; and Organisational values in everything you do. Equality and Diversity practice covers both interaction with staff, service users and communities and includes challenging discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity for all. Arrange and undertake site visits, meeting with applicants, occupational therapists (OT's), architects and contractors to determine eligibility for financial assistance. Ensure project feasibility and scope of work, undertake measured surveys and to give technical advice. To liaise with other officers of the service and outside agencies. Produce practical specifications, detailed drawings and schedules of work for extensions and other adaptations which contractors can work from to carry out the construction work. Ensuring compliance with Building Regulations, Planning Permission, listed building consent and good practice. Obtain quotations and estimates from contractors and to scrutinise them and undertake a fair costings exercise for the proposed work. Carry out interim and final inspections and to appraise unforeseen works where technical problems have been encountered and to negotiate with applicants and contractors in matters of dispute, and to make decisions for approved grants and loans. Checking of final accounts, invoices and defects liability. Title: Senior Technical Officer (DFG) Salary: £49 P/H Umbrella Location: Southwest