Compliance Officer
Description
Newlon Housing Trust is a successful charitable housing association and one of the major providers of new affordable housing in north and east London.
Your role will be to take responsibility for ensuring that all properties are compliant with all compliance obligations, working in a team managing the following compliance streams: gas safety, water safety, asbestos, electrical safety, fire safety and lift LOLER requirements. Working with the Building Compliance Manager, you will deliver a high quality and robust compliance service, ensuring reactive works, planned works and servicing programmes are delivered effectively, on time and to required standards.
Ensuring all databases remain compliant and are up to date, you will take responsibility for ensuring the completion of works within required timeframes and verifying the quality and value for money provided to our residents and other stakeholders, maintaining a reliable and consistent service.
Having previously worked in a similar role, you will have substantial compliance experience and will ideally be a member of a relevant body such has IOSH, RICS, CIOB, RIBA, CIBSE or IFSM. You will need to hold a health and safety qualification such as NEBOSH or IOSH. You will also need demonstrable experience and knowledge of current housing related legislation of compliance workstreams as well as experience of managing Health and Safety via regulations. The successful candidate will need to have experience working on fire contracts (Compliance) and fire safety tasks as well as general understanding/experience in other compliance areas.
An excellent communicator with a focus on providing high quality customer service, you will be able to build rapport with residents and maintain effective working relationships.
In return, you can expect 27 days holiday, a non-contributory pension, excellent benefits and a flexi scheme. We currently offer the opportunity to work up to 2 days at home (depending on the role), however your first 3-months will be office based so you can complete the necessary training. You’ll also be working out of purpose-built offices that form part of the award-winning Hale Village regeneration project, and are situated just two minutes’ walk from the major transport interchange at Tottenham Hale
Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK.
To apply, please email your CV and supporting statement to recruit@newlon.org.uk
Closing date: 23:59 on Monday 25 May 2026
Interviews will be held at the Newlon Head Office on Tuesday 2 June 2026
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Due to the high volume of interest that we receive, please note that we will only be able to contact candidates selected to go onto the next stage. If you do not hear from us a week after the deadline date has passed, unfortunately your application has not been successful. We appreciate the time and commitment that goes into applying for a role, and hope this will not discourage you from applying.
Salary: £39,512 per annum plus opportunity to earn performance related bonus
Hours: 35 hours per week
Contract: Full-time, permanent
Location: Hale Village, London N17
Closing Date: 25/05/2026 11:59 PM