What's involved with this role: Interim Enforcement Officer - Housing Job Ref: N. Northamptonshire RQ1377411 Pay Rate: £18.66 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 36 Monday - Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 2-3 months City: Wembley, London Candidate must be willing to work across North Northamptonshire (various locations). The purpose of the role is to investigate alleged breaches of planning control in accordance with the adopted policies and procedures of the Council. Key Responsibilities: Planning, organising and carrying out the investigation of alleged breaches of planning control by way of paper, computer and on site investigations and monitoring in accordance with the Councils adopted policies and procedures. Preparing written reports to Committee or the Head of Planning Services / Planning Development Manager as appropriate with recommendations on cases and performance. Providing procedural guidance as necessary. Attendance at Committee when required. Resolving as many cases as possible through negotiation. Implementing decisions to take enforcement action or to prosecute under the Planning Acts by preparing and serving the appropriate Notices in association with the Council’s legal section. To advise both complainants and persons being complained about as to the progress of investigations and actions to be taken, in accordance with adopted performance targets. Monitoring of premises where the breach occurring is outside normal office hours e.g. restaurants and takeaways. Carrying out pro active monitoring to ensure that conditions attached to planning permissions have been complied with and taking action as appropriate. Dealing with appeals against enforcement notices, including appearance at hearings and public inquiries when required. Appearing in Court in support of the prosecution of cases. Maintaining accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date records (primarily of cases and complaints), in electronic or paper form, of all of the activities of the enforcement team, including time, travel and financial information. Maintenance of the Enforcement Register. Giving advice to Members, complainants, the public and other staff in the department on particular or general enforcement issues. Liaison with other departments and other organisations in pursuance of the aims and objectives of the local planning authority with respect to planning enforcement. Preparing publicity material on enforcement procedures and performance, and on cases, which end up in Court in association with the Council’s Communications Manager. Regularly review policies and procedures in conjunction with the Planning Development Manager. Qualifications: GCSE Grade A-C or equivalent skill level in English and Maths. Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. Recent experience of dealing first hand with members of the public/customers, handling complaints and solving problems. Experience of working in a planning department or public service field particularly a local authority. Experience of collating evidence to prepare cases. Experience of keeping written, electronic and photographic records. Experience in an investigative role. Experience of writing letters, drafting reports. Good organisational skills plus the ability to be flexible, meet tight deadlines and experience of managing a personal caseload. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite). Full UK driving licence required for this role. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. S Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please