Wessex Water Home Check Advisor

Job Vacancy | Groundwork South

Location: Delivery across the Wessex Water Area
Contract: Fixed Term Contract – 31st March 2026  
Salary: £25,662 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours

Groundwork South employs teams of Home Water Check Advisors to deliver water efficiency visits across the Wessex Water areas with the aim of raising public awareness, saving water, capturing customer water usage data, and reporting leakage.

Summary of role:

As a Wessex Water Home Water Check Advisor, you will be liaising with residents on a day-to-day basis building a good working relationship with them.  You will undertake a number of home visits per day, during these visits you will provide advice to residents on water consumption helping them change their behaviours and install simple but effective measures to help residents reduce their water consumption and make cost savings.

Wessex Water Area covers the following areas: West Somerset, Taunton, Bridgewater, South Somerset, Yeovil, West Dorset, Dorchester, Purbeck, Poole, North Dorset, Salisbury, Warminster, Wiltshire, Trowbridge, Bath, Devizes & Chippenham.

What skills & abilities are needed:

  • Good communication skills and ability to speak and relate to a wide customer base, tailoring messages to the audience.
  • Knowledge of water efficiency and home energy products and giving advice in relation to them.
  • Relevant practical experience of manual trades or home repair and a good knowledge of home maintenance
  • Ability to find practical solutions to problems.
  • This role involves daily travel to your work location. You must have a full clean UK driving licence, you will be provided with a work vehicle which must be driven in accordance with company policy.
  • Able to work outside normal working hours i.e., occasional evenings and Saturdays.  The Trust has a Time Off In Lieu system in place.
  • Appointment to this role is subject to a Basic DBS check through the Disclosure and Barring Service.

In return we offer you:

  • A competitive salary
  • Generous holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum plus public holidays
  • Health Cash Plan and 24 hour Healthline
  • Employee Assistance Programme – including mental health helpline and face to face counselling.
  • Salary sacrifice schemes including cycle to work and pension contributions
  • Family friendly policies to support work/life balance with time off in lieu for out of hours activities
  • Business travel expenses

We are a creative, committed, and enthusiastic organisation with a great track record of project development, fundraising and delivery, so there are always opportunities to grow and develop your role within our friendly team.

For key requirements of the role please see the personal specification attached to the Job Description on our website.

 Groundwork South

Groundwork South works with communities across the south of England to transform their lives and the places where they live. We have been at the forefront of social and environmental regeneration for over 25 years, and today we have a simple mission: to create better places, improve people’s prospects, and promote greener living and working.

We are passionate about creating a future where every neighbourhood is vibrant and green, every community is strong and able to shape its own destiny, and no-one is held back by their background or circumstances. This vision drives the work that we do. Each year we deliver over 100 innovative projects, tackling the biggest issues facing our communities and creating real and lasting, positive change.

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Job Description – Wessex Water Home Check Advisor JD

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To apply, please read the Job Description and send your CV and covering letter (explaining how you meet the requirements of the JD) to: recruitment.south@groundwork.org.uk please quote the reference number ‘WWA0425’  on your covering letter and email communication.

Closing date for applications: 11th April 2025
Interview date: Will be scheduled as and when we receive applications  

Appointment to this role is subject to a basic DBS check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Groundwork South is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of the community.