Environmental Health Officer

Brighton-Hove City Council; Eastbourne; Presencial; GBP 35 000 - 52 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Staff discounts

Great sea-front office location

Learning and development opportunities

Resumo da oferta

Brighton & Hove City Council seeks an Environmental Health Officer to join the Private Sector Housing Team. You will work on citywide licensing schemes and support tenants and landlords while handling complex issues in a dynamic environment.

The role requires a BSc (or MSc/diploma) in Environmental Health and strong organisational, IT and communication skills. This is a permanent post with flexible working and a supportive learning culture.

Qualificações

• Experience of dealing with complex problems and ability to work under pressure.
• Experience with licensing schemes in private sector housing is advantageous.
• Good IT, communication and organisational skills.

Responsabilidades

• Deliver licensing under the national mandatory scheme and associated local licenses.
• Support and deal with requests from tenants and landlords across the city.
• Liaise with teams and manage workloads within flexible working arrangements.

Conhecimentos

Organisational skills

Communication skills

IT skills

Formação académica

BSc Environmental Health

MSc Environmental Health

Diploma / equivalent in Environmental Health

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Job description

Contract type: This role is permanent

There is full information about the role below and attached but, if you would like an informal discussion, please contact Alex Dickie [e-mail] or Debbie Watts [e-mail]

Brighton and Hove is a vibrant and popular place to live with a much higher than average proportion of privately rented homes, including a significant number of Houses in Multiple Occupation. We believe that our private rented sector should be well managed and that everyone has the right to live in decent, save accommodation.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for enthusiastic and highly motivated people to join our Private Sector Housing Team, who will share our drive to improve the management, standards and quality of private sector homes in the city. Experience of dealing with complex problems and the ability to work under pressure is essential. In return, we can offer flexible working arrangements, a great office location near the sea and excellent terms and conditions including staff discounts on goods and services throughout the city. We can also offer great self-development and career opportunities through our People Promise commitments. The council is embedding a learning framework to support and demonstrate our journey to become a learning organisation.

The team is responsible for delivering licensing under the national mandatory scheme, a citywide Additional HMO Licensing scheme and a Selective Licensing scheme, currently in 4 wards with an aim to extend to 13. Also for dealing with requests for assistance from tenants.

You will have efffective organisational, communication and IT skills and be flexible in response to varying workload demands.

Environmental Health Officers are required to have a BSc degree, MSc degree, diploma or current equivalent in Environmental Health

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Why work for us?

As a council, we want to:

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own.