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#1 Posted : 09 April 2009 14:36:00(UTC)
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Posted By CW
Me again,

I have got an interview next week for a privately run social housing company.

As it is construction & maintenance based I am quite comfortable with issues within and the job description is fairly close to my old position. But are there any issues that are unique regarding this sector that anyone could fill me in on or give me a heads up. I.e. working in houses with tenants in situ, V&A, Specific legislation that I could have a read up on? etc.

Once again any advice will be very much appreciated.

Col

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#2 Posted : 09 April 2009 15:36:00(UTC)
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Posted By Bob Youel
I presume that a lot of the time you will be working in somebodies private home - they will be tenants etc and many will smoke whilst you work - so you need to address those types of areas as those places of work are not construction sites in the normal sense of the words yet construction works are taking place
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#3 Posted : 09 April 2009 17:12:00(UTC)
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Posted By peter gotch
Hi CW

You will probably need Criminal Records Board Disclosure for some of this work.

Good luck with the interview.

Regards, Peter
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#4 Posted : 10 April 2009 09:26:00(UTC)
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Posted By Anne Mageean
Hi I work in social housing and my typical issues are lone working, dealing with verbal / physical agression, security, work at heights, accident and incident reporting, training, planning with health and safety committee, policy writing. As my position was new, it was and still is an educational process!
As with any interview, look at the job description, as ask yourself questions from it, that is generally what the interviewers do.

Good luck with it, it's an interesting position.

Anne
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#5 Posted : 22 April 2009 13:54:00(UTC)
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Posted By A C Leach
CW

Did you get the job?
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#6 Posted : 11 July 2009 21:11:00(UTC)
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