Environmental Health Officer/Private Sector Housing Officer

at  Colchester City Council

COLREQ01274

Contract type: Permanent
Working hours : 37 hours per week
Colchester is Britain’s First City and Britain’s Newest City. A wealth of heritage buildings, coastline and Constable countryside surrounds a modern City that is rapidly changing to match our thriving population growth.
We have a new vision to modernise our own services through team cultures that will meet the future needs of the city. This is an exciting time for us.
We recognise that housing conditions need to be addressed as a determinant of health if we are to reduce the inequalities that exist across the City. The Private Sector Housing team is being expanded to address these issues. We are seeking a qualified Environmental Health Officer or Private Sector Housing Officer to join our established Private Sector Housing team.
This role may work across HMO licensing and enforcement, reactive enforcement or proactive project work.
We want to hear from motivated, driven, flexible professionals who have the skills and experience to work holistically and collaboratively with a range of partners to make a difference for people living in Colchester.
The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic and have excellent organisational, written and verbal communication skills. They will be able to prioritise and manage a caseload, think creatively and show initiative and a willingness to learn and develop their knowledge and skills.
You can expect a busy and challenging workload and will need to able to work effectively from home.
Whilst we are ideally looking for a fully qualified and experienced Environmental Health Officer, we are keen to hear from you if you have completed your degree in Environmental Health but not yet completed your professional qualification route. We will support you to achieve your professional qualification.
We are also keen to hear from you if you have extensive experience as a Private Sector Housing Officer carrying out housing enforcement activity within a Local Authority.

In return, we are happy to talk about flexible working arrangements. You could blend home, remote, office and site working, and work/life balance flexibility. In addition to the basic salary, a Market Forces Supplement is currently applied to this role to increase this for eligible candidates. Other employee benefits for this role include:

• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme choice.
• Annual Leave entitlement up to 26 days a year.
• Additional leave on the 8 public holidays.
• Extra statutory leave for 2 days during the festive season.
• Options to purchase additional days of holiday.
• Our new Wagestream, which allows pre-tax saving with attractive interest rates; or can be used to take your salary early if an unexpected personal expense arises.
• 100% payment of one professional membership.
• Mileage and subsistence allowance payments.
• The popular Vine Extras discount scheme for retail, goods and services.
• Tax-free cycle schemes.
• Free use of the Council’s own gym.
• Discounted fitness classes and/or swimming pool memberships.
• Reduced cost private health care options.
• Staff incentives for events, museums and exhibitions.
• Diverse learning opportunities, including transferable skills, soft skills and ways to open up career progression routes using apprenticeships, coaching, mentoring, leadership and management qualifications.
• Employee Assistance Programmes providing confidential support networks.
• A variety of in-house health and wellbeing activities, groups and programmes

For an informal discussion about this role, please email Anna Watson, Private Sector Housing Manager anna.watson@colchester.gov.uk
Colchester City Council has a wide range of services and facilities that can involve dealing with children or vulnerable adults. We treat our obligations for the safety of children and vulnerable adults seriously and expect our staff to be committed to the principles of our published policies and to adhere to the procedures contained within them

• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme choice.
• Annual Leave entitlement up to 26 days a year.
• Additional leave on the 8 public holidays.
• Extra statutory leave for 2 days during the festive season.
• Options to purchase additional days of holiday.
• Our new Wagestream, which allows pre-tax saving with attractive interest rates; or can be used to take your salary early if an unexpected personal expense arises.
• 100% payment of one professional membership.
• Mileage and subsistence allowance payments.
• The popular Vine Extras discount scheme for retail, goods and services.
• Tax-free cycle schemes.
• Free use of the Council’s own gym.
• Discounted fitness classes and/or swimming pool memberships.
• Reduced cost private health care options.
• Staff incentives for events, museums and exhibitions.
• Diverse learning opportunities, including transferable skills, soft skills and ways to open up career progression routes using apprenticeships, coaching, mentoring, leadership and management qualifications.
• Employee Assistance Programmes providing confidential support networks.
• A variety of in-house health and wellbeing activities, groups and programme