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Interim Senior Planning Enforcement Officer
Job Ref: NW Leicestershire 5258416
Pay Rate: £40.00 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 36.25 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3-4 months
City: Coalville, Leicestershire
Hybrid working
The successful candidate will carry out duties in relation to breaches of planning control, monitoring planning conditions and unauthorised developments.
Key Responsibilities:
Undertake inspections and other monitoring visits to assess compliance with relevant legislation.
Investigate alleged breaches of legislation.
Write reports relating to planning investigations, draft formal notices and update computer records.
Take appropriate enforcement action against those failing to comply with relevant legislation.
Represent the Council at enforcement appeals, public inquiries and in court when necessary.
Respond to all service requests within the remit of the work of the team.
Provide advice and guidance.
Support S106 monitoring and compliance.
Support all staff and teams within Environmental Protection Team as required.
Qualifications:
Educated to A level or equivalent (minimum).
Foundation Certificate in Consumer Affairs and Trading Standards.
Skills & Experience:
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Experience of undertaking planning enforcement or other regulatory enforcement work in a public sector organisation.
Previous experience of reading and interpreting plans and other drawings.
Experience of undertaking site visits, survey work and gathering evidence to inform your recommendations.
Previous experience of using information technology in a planning or related environment.
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.
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 jobs@tclrec.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.
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Job Ref: NW Leicestershire 5258416
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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