Community Environmental Officer

HQN Ltd; England; Remote; GBP 23,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

HQN Ltd is seeking a Community Environmental Officer to join the Neighbourhood Team and work on-ground within communities to address environmental issues and seek resolutions. The role involves patrols, enforcement actions where appropriate, and collaboration with partners to improve safety and cleanliness across housing stock.

Responsibilities include addressing graffiti, dog fouling, abandoned vehicles, and untidy gardens, as well as coordinating minor neighbourhood repairs and promoting

Responsibilities

• Promoting and creation of safer, cleaner and greener communities through active patrols, high visibility patrols, taking corrective action and providing long term solutions that benefit communities.
• Resolving specific environmental issues within our communities such as graffiti, vandalism, dog fouling, abandoned vehicles and untidy gardens.
• Maintaining the cleanliness of both internal and external areas across our housing stock.
• Working with partners to determine preventative measures to prevent fly tipping, encourage waste recycling, and will take enforcement action as deemed appropriate.
• Carrying out minor neighbourhood repairs within own or teams’ abilities. This involves jobs such as new letterbox covers to flats within blocks, boarding up sheds to reduce fly-tipping and the risk of arson and other items such as, but not limited to; gate latches, bolts & padlocks, signage.

Job description

We have a fantastic opportunity for you to join our high performing Neighbourhood Team, working collaboratively with our colleagues and customers to ensure our communities are places our customers want to call home.

As a Community Environmental Officer, in this manual handling role, you will be on the ground in our communities, responding to environmental issues within our neighbourhoods and seeking resolution to these.

No two days will never be the same in this role, and your tasks could include:

• Promoting and creation of safer, cleaner and greener communities through active patrols, high visibility patrols, taking corrective action and providing long term solutions that benefit communities.
• Resolving specific environmental issues within our communities such as graffiti, vandalism, dog fouling, abandoned vehicles and untidy gardens.
• Maintaining the cleanliness of both internal and external areas across our housing stock.
• Working with partners to determine preventative measures to prevent fly tipping, encourage waste recycling, and will take enforcement action as deemed appropriate.
• Carrying out minor neighbourhood repairs within own or teams’ abilities. This involves jobs such as new letterbox covers to flats within blocks, boarding up sheds to reduce fly-tipping and the risk of arson and other items such as, but not limited to; gate latches, bolts & padlocks, signage.