Senior Private Sector Housing Officer

37 Hours per week, Permanent

£42,403 - £46,464 per annum

It’s an exciting time to join the Housing team at Wychavon and Malvern Hills District Councils! In this newly created post, you will lead our Private Sector Housing team in delivering an effective and customer focused service with the aim of achieving safe, warm and decent private sector housing stock across the two districts.

The role is varied and no day will be the same - you will provide expertise in the Private Sector Housing function, including interpreting and advising on legislation, leading on relevant service projects and effective partnership working. You will be responsible for developing the council’s long term strategic vision and approach for private sector housing - to drive up standards and energy efficiency of homes, ensuring a proactive approach to identifying and licencing houses in multiple occupation and caravan/camping sites and bringing empty homes back into use. You will also have a key role in the performance and financial management of the Councils home improvement agency contract and the delivery of disabled facilities grants. 

To be successful, we are looking for a dynamic and organised individual with experience and knowledge across all aspects of the Private Sector Housing function, including formal and informal housing enforcement, houses in multiple occupation, disabled facilities grants, caravan/camping licences, empty homes and improving energy efficiency of homes. Applicants must hold a degree or master’s degree within Environmental Health. 

The role also involves leading, empowering, coaching and motivating the team along with providing day to day supervision, guidance and support. Having effective leadership skills with a friendly and professional approach is therefore essential. 

This is a great opportunity to make a real difference within our communities in a supportive and ambitious environment. 

About you 

The successful candidate will have:

• A degree or master’s degree in Environmental Health.
• At least 3 years experience working in a housing or environmental health environment or similar field 
• Knowledge and understanding of legislation affecting this area of work e.g. Housing Act 2004 
• Experience of maintaining a strong customer focussed environment 
• Experience of working with multi-agency partnerships 
• Experience of presenting information to a wide range of audiences
• Excellent communication skills with an ability to deal with people in difficult situations and to handle confrontation tactfully 
• Highly developed I.T. skills and experience of implementation of new I.T. systems.
• Outstanding customer care and a commitment to supporting performance improvement.
• Able to lead a team and can demonstrate previous experience in managing and motivating staff

You will also need to be able to travel throughout the districts so flexibility, a full driving licence and use of a car is essential.

We recognise not every candidate will meet every single desired criteria so if your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified but you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.

What we can offer 

Our staff are at the heart of what we do, and as a result we are always looking to recruit, develop and retain the very best talent we can find.  So, as well as a rewarding career, we offer a range of attractive benefits, such as:

• Excellent pension scheme with employer contributions
• Generous annual leave entitlement with options to purchase additional annual leave
• Committed training programme and development opportunities
• Onsite nursery with 20% staff discount
• Discounted Gym and swim membership
• Health and Wellbeing support and a Free Employee Assistance scheme including access to counselling services
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee Discounts with a range of companies including EE and the Kaarp discount scheme.

We are an employer that values face to face communication, collaboration and connection, therefore all our roles have an office-based requirement with some agile working as part of the role. 

To discuss the post or for further information, please call Rachael Tooth on 07773 642 862. 

Closing date: Sunday 13 October 2024 

Interview date: Monday 21 October 2024 

Please note if we experience a high intake of applications, we may close the role and interview for the position sooner than advertised.

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