Posted By steven bentham Jervis Sounds like the Housing Association made a good choice then! You will see many postings of people desperate for a job to give them good experience.

Posted By jervis Job was in Essex area whats wrong with reporting to H/R when i asked what experience they had i was told none what so ever how can you report back to some one if they have no knowledge of what you are reporting!!!!! I cant possibly see how one person could manage over 3000 properties by them selves unless you cut corners which i dont do.

Posted By jervis Thanks for the feed back so far if nothing else the interview was a good experience for me and have taken into account what has been said so far.

Posted By CW "They were after a 'unique blend of skills'. What ever that means." As a cynic I would offer this translation and say that it means 'internal candidate'

Posted By GeoffB4 Jervis, we have a lot of experience of housing associations and the picture you paint isn't quite the reality of the situation - in our experience. The people looking after the properties are the housing officers. You would offer them generic assessments for the majority of the properties. You would train those officers to complete risk assessment using your generic assessment as templates. You would carry out RAs that were outside the competence/expertise of non H&S staff. You would carry out these in liaison with staff including HR/Engineering/FM. You would be available to offer guidance to those housing officers as well as being available to other staff as required. It would be an excellent job giving you the opportunity to learn a lot about H&S, how to set up budgets, business planning, supporting and encouraging other staff, training etc etc

Posted By Pete48 Jervis, did you stop to consider that maybe the company had some cultural issues with regard to safety? Having a boss in HR is very useful in such circumstances. Is safety a team game or a specialist arena? Why, if you felt that the job looked huge, did you not question it at the time? You may have both learnt and demonstrated your ability to question things all in one go. It is my experience that individuals far more commonly overprice or perceive the job as bigger than do employers when setting their salary points. The employer is usually closer to reality! Why should a low salary be indicative of poor safety? I can think of many companies who have excellent records, do not need highly skilled practitioners full time on the payroll and so don't employ at that level. I wish you luck but I fear that you will need to review your hopes and broaden your expectations a little before achieving the success that you obviously seek in this field. Sorry if that seems harsh but you put yourself on display here.