Housing Standards Officer

Cheshire East Council; England; Hybrid; GBP 39,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government authority in England seeks a Housing Standards Officer to ensure safety in rented housing across the area. This role involves educating landlords, engaging with various stakeholders, and taking necessary enforcement actions. The ideal candidate will possess strong organizational, negotiation, and interpersonal skills, alongside construction knowledge. The job offers a hybrid working model, a generous leave policy, and various benefits including a pension scheme.

Benefits

Enhanced annual leave

Salary sacrifice schemes for home and electronic items

Flexible working pattern

Cycle to work scheme

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Qualifications

• Ability to analyze structural and technical reports.
• Knowledge of the Housing Health and Safety Rating System.
• Excellent record keeping skills.
• Capable of conversing with residents and landlords.

Responsibilities

• Regulate housing conditions to ensure safety.
• Educate and engage landlords to provide safe housing.
• Take enforcement action for legislative breaches.
• Manage diverse cases in office and onsite.

Skills

Construction knowledge

Negotiation skills

Interpersonal skills

Attention to detail

Knowledge of housing legislation

Job description

Housing Standards Officer (E3212)

An exciting opportunity has become available to work within the Housing Standards team in the Strategic Housing service, to regulate housing conditions so everyone can have a safe home. The position is for 1.0 FTE (37 hours) per week, Monday to Friday.

About you

Housing Standards Officers play a critical role in ensuring rented housing across Cheshire East meets a safe living standard. The role is to educate, engage and encourage landlords to provide safe housing, and take enforcement action where it is needed to deal with breaches in legislation. For more information on this role please view the attached job description specification document.

To be successful in this role, you will bring your construction / housing enforcement knowledge and your negotiation and interpersonal skills to effectively manage all stakeholders in the enforcement process, including tenants, private landlords, registered providers of social housing, other accommodation providers, Fire Service, Police, and other Council departments.

The role will provide the opportunity to work on a diverse range of cases both in the office and on site in people's homes. You will need good organisational, report writing and IT skills and attention to detail.

You will work as part of a team of 6 Housing Standards Officers, 2 Assistant Housing Standards Officers, a Duty Assistant and a Team Leader, as well as colleagues in the wider Housing service who deliver adaptations, domestic retrofit, hoarding support, affordable housing and housing options.

The team works on a hybrid basis; predominantly working from home but also working in our Crewe office at least one day per week. The Council will provide the appropriate IT equipment to enable this.

You will be asked to provide a satisfactory basic DBS check as part of the pre‑employment checks.

The successful candidate will have:

• Construction knowledge and ability to analyse structural and technical reports
• Knowledge of the Housing Health and Safety Rating System and housing legislation
• Attention to detail and excellent record keeping skills
• Negotiation and interpersonal skills to converse at ease with residents, landlords and other professionals

To find out more about the essential and desirable criteria for the role please view the attached job description specification document.

For an information discussion about the role, please contact Colin Wyatt on [phone] [e-mail]

In return we are able to offer:

• Enhanced annual leave – 34 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays) from day 1, increasing up to 39 days after only 5 years' service;
• White goods salary sacrifice scheme – home and electronic items available for purchase via a salary sacrifice scheme, allowing you to spread the cost of big‑ticket purchases like appliances, computers, and tech gadgets by deducting payments directly from your salary;
• Salary sacrifice green car scheme – a cost‑effective, hassle‑free way to lease a brand‑new car via salary sacrifice. The Scheme offers you a brand‑new car of UNCLASSIFIED your choice on a three‑year lease. There are no credit checks or deposits, and the scheme provides access to exclusive offers;
• Enhanced public pension – a career average pension (contributions built at a rate of 1/49th of your yearly pensionable pay);
• Flexible working pattern – 37‑hour standard full time working week with flexi time and hybrid/remote working arrangements;
• Purchase of annual leave – the ability to purchase up to 10 days' extra annual leave each year in addition to your normal annual leave entitlements (this is pro‑rata for part time staff);
• Cycle to work scheme – receive up Income Tax and National Insurance savings of up to 25‑39% off the retail price of the bike and safety equipment package (savings dependent on the value of your chosen package and your tax status);
• Employee assistance programme – a completely free to use and confidential assistance service for all employees to help staff manage, reduce and overcome the impact of life issues which they may experience from time to time, both within work and their personal life;
• Discounted gym membership – access to corporate membership prices for Everybody Leisure which includes:
  • Gym, Swim and Group Fitness at all 16 facilities
  • Off‑Peak Racket Sports
  • Athletics Tracks
  • Sauna/Steam/Spa

To find out more about our rewards and benefits package, please click here.

Location – Knutsford, Macclesfield, Middlewich, Nantwich, Sandbach, Alsager, Holmes Chapel, Wilmslow, Congleton, Crewe

Job Category – Regulatory Services

Grade – CEC NJC – Grade 9

Salary Min – £39,152 per annum

Salary Max – £41,771 per annum

Hours per week – 37

Weeks per year – 52.143

Employment Type – Permanent

Closing Date – 25/01/2026

Ref No – E3212

Documents

• FAFH4217 Hsg Stand Adapts Off JD PS.pdf (PDF, 295.76kb)

Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.

At Cheshire East Council we are working for a brighter future – together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well‑led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.

If you want to be part of our award‑winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future – together.

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Cheshire East Council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults across the Borough. As such, any cautions, convictions, reprimands or final warnings that are ‘not protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) order 1975 (as amended in 2013) relating to the non‑disclosure of spent convictions do not apply to this job. You must therefore, disclose whether you have any previous convictions where prompted to do so within the application process.

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