Environmental Health Officer – Private Housing Standards
Salary: £41, 511 - £45,718 per annum
Hours: Full time 37 hours per week but would consider reduced hours/ part time
Contract: Permanent
Location: Hybrid / Harrogate office base, with expectation to visit sites countywide as required.
Are you someone who has a passion for helping others? Are you looking for a role that can make a real difference to the lives of our residents?
If so, you are just what we are looking for!
We are looking for an Environmental Health Officer, who will protect the health, safety, and wellbeing of our residents through raising housing standards in privately rented accommodation and providing high quality support and advice to residents.
Our Service
The purpose of our Housing Standards Service is to improve housing standards, ensuring all privately rented accommodation is well managed, properly maintained, safe and habitable. This is achieved by providing advice and guidance and where necessary by enforcing relevant legislation to deliver the Councils statutory Housing functions.
The Role
As an Environmental Health Officer, you are fundamental to ensuring the successful delivery of the Private Housing Standards Service. The role requires you to provide a proactive, expert, and timely approach to raising housing standards in the private sector. You will provide high-quality support and a full range of effective interventions including advice and education, undertaking inspections of accommodation, investigating complaints and where appropriate take necessary enforcement action to protect the health, safety, and wellbeing of our residents.
You will also:
1. Work with internal and external stakeholders, building effective relationships with partner organisations, public agencies, and the private sector.
2. Carry out a range of interventions including advice and education, inspection/audit of accommodation using a risk-based system (HHSRS) investigating complaints.
3. Ensure that residential accommodation is to a safe and decent standard and where necessary take enforcement action.
4. Take the lead in enforcement and regulation, preparing, and serving legal notices in accordance with the Council’s Private Housing Standards Enforcement Policy.
5. Assist in maintaining selective/additional licensing areas, mandatory HMO inspections and licensing in accordance with the Housing Act 2004 and associated legislation.
6. Deliver an excellent customer focused service.
What you will bring
You will hold a degree in Environmental Health (BSc or MSc) and be a qualified Environmental Health Officer registered by the Environmental Health Registration Board and hold membership of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health. Ideally, you will have undertaken some relevant legal training, for example, PACE, RIPA, CPIA. You will also have in-depth knowledge of current guidance and legislation regarding the area of Housing.
You will have experience of evaluating and organising information to aid fast-paced decision making based upon evidence within an ever-changing environment. You will have the ability to work under pressure, with the ability to effectively prioritise, plan and organise workloads to ensure deadlines and targets are met.
Excellent communication skills are a must, both written and oral with the ability to problem solve and find pragmatic solutions, and experience of managing conflicts and complaints.
Working for us
When you join us, you are entitled to our outstanding benefits and wellbeing plan as part of your position. Our holiday entitlement starts at 28 days rising to 34 days (pro-rata) per year with continued service, plus public holidays. Pension: save for your retirement with our generous local government pension scheme. Fitness & Rewards: Fitness discounts with various Gyms across the county. Stay on top of your game and save £££. Lifestyle Savings: explore a huge range of discounts to help you save money across hundreds of the UK’s favourite high-street and online retailers. Plus, lots more…
Contact and Apply
Applying is easy, simply register your details, tell us your motivation for applying and how you meet the criteria in the supporting evidence section, remove your personal details from your CV and upload.
Key Dates
Closing date: Sunday 19th January 2025
Shortlisting: Tuesday 21st January 2025
Interview date: Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th January 2025.
NYC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.
We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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North Yorkshire Councils’ purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.
North Yorkshire Council are committed to the health and safety of our employees and of others including the general public. It has a responsibility to ensure employees who hold a position that is deemed to be safety critical as it requires the performance of duties which are directly related to the safe operation or security of a facility, piece of equipment or vehicle, handling of chemicals or work at height or in confined spaces and which, if not performed properly, could result in a serious safety risk or environmental hazard to employees, a facility or the general public, do not attend work whilst under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Individuals offered employment with North Yorkshire Council will be subject to the Workplace Substance Misuse policy. For safety critical roles as detailed above, random alcohol and drug testing may take place during the course of employment.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £41,511.00-£45,718.00 per year
Work Location: In person
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