Team Leader Private Sector Housing

Gloucester City Council; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Flexible working patterns

Job summary

Gloucester City Council in Gloucester is seeking a Team Leader Private Sector Housing to drive improvements in housing enforcement and licensing, delivering high standards for private sector housing and HMO regulation. You will lead a multi-skilled team, oversee licensing, and work to implement the Renters Rights Act 2025 ambitions.

You will manage investigations into housing complaints, ensure compliance with licensing conditions, and collaborate with planning and environmental health to

Qualifications

• Manage a team of enforcement officers dedicated to improving housing conditions.
• Deliver Additional Licensing Scheme and enforce HMO standards.
• Support wider housing colleagues and deliver Renters Rights Act 2025 ambitions.
• Hybrid working with flexible patterns offered.

Responsibilities

• Inspect and license houses in multiple occupation.
• Investigate housing complaints and ensure compliance with licences.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across housing enforcement and planning.

Job description

• Job Title: Team Leader Private Sector Housing
• Job Location: Gloucester City Council
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Closing Date: 18/10/2026
• Job Requisition Number: 14442
• This post is not open to job share

This is a Gloucester City Council job.

• Job Title: Team Leader Private Sector Housing
• Job Location: Gloucester City Council
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Closing Date: 18/10/2026
• Job Requisition Number: 14442
• This post is not open to job share

Gloucester City Council is an ambitious Local Authority driving the City’s transformation. It has an established culture of collaborative working and engagement with partners that makes it a supportive and dynamic working environment. The Council is focused on delivering the best possible outcomes for its residents and communities placing people at the heart of everything we do.

Do you want to join a busy and multi-skilled enforcement and regulation service and manage a team of officers dedicated to improving housing conditions, managing planning enforcement and tackling environmental crime, reducing health inequalities, and finding innovative solutions to the challenges facing the housing sector.

The enforcement and regulation team draws on their housing, planning, public health and environmental health knowledge, along with creativity, to deliver advanced interventions to improve the lives of Gloucester’s residents, while remaining dedicated to the councils’ priorities and values.

One of these roles requires an experienced team leader to deliver our Additional Licensing Scheme and we will be focused on enforcing HMO standards in Gloucester as well delivering the ambitions of the Renters Rights Act 2025 and Disabled Facilities Grant team.

These posts offer an exciting opportunity to come into a team facing a wide array of challenging work streams and interesting projects. You will be responsible for working in a flexible and adaptable way with a ‘can-do’ attitude investigating housing complaints, inspecting and licensing houses in multiple occupation, ensuring compliance with mobile home site licence conditions and supporting our wider housing colleagues in improving social and supported housing.

You will have excellent organisational, communication and mediation skills working with a diverse range of stakeholders focusing on delivering the aims of the role and organisation.

You should be able to demonstrate an understanding and knowledge of the housing legislative and regulatory framework and the current issues the housing sector is facing. Ideally you will have experience in a local authority housing enforcement environment or grant delivery team but we welcome applications from candidates who can demonstrate the key transferable skills, experiences and behavioural attributes set out in the job profile to deliver the requirements of the role.

The council is committed to supporting on-going development through coaching mentoring as well a formal training and professional development.

We offer a range of flexible, and agile working patterns including part time and job share and we are currently operating a hybrid model of office and remote working.

Additional Information

Applications from a ny Gloucestershire County Council's e mployees who are currently on the redeployment register or at risk of redundancy will be considered first at shortlisting stage.

The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.

Gloucester City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Equality and Diversity

We recognise the positive value of equality and diversity and pride ourselves on growing a high-performing workforce that is diverse, skilled and talented; that represents the community it serves.

We aim to recruit a diverse pool of talent and will recruit the person who is most suited to the job without regard to their race, colour, religion or belief, age, nationality, ethnicity, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, caring responsibilities or disability.

We are a disability confident employer committed to removing barriers to employment to those with disabilities or long-term health conditions. Reasonable adjustments will be made to the recruitment procedure to ensure that no-one is disadvantages because of their disability. Please contact the recruitment team if you require support or reasonable adjustments during the application or recruitment process [e-mail]

Further information on our commitment to Equality and Diversity can be found Here

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.