Housing Standards Officer

CHESHIRE EAST COUNCIL

Housing Standards Officer

Location: Crewe

Job category: Regulatory Services

Grade: CEC NJC - Grade 9

Salary: £31,346 - £34,728 per annum

Ref no: E1070

Housing Standards Officers play a critical role in ensuring rented housing across Cheshire East meets a safe living standard. The role is to educate, engage, and encourage landlords to provide safe housing, and take enforcement action where it is needed to deal with breaches in legislation.

Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.

At Cheshire East Council we are working for a brighter future – together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.

If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.

Brighter Future

The importance of a good standard of housing has never been so important since the Covid-19 pandemic. As people have spent more time at home, the impact that a good home can have on someone's health has become more apparent - and conversely, how a poorly maintained home can exacerbate poor physical and mental wellbeing. The Housing Standards team work across a diverse housing sector, but primarily with low income households in private rented housing.

You will bring your construction/housing enforcement knowledge to this role, to be part of a team to drive up standards across the rented sector, ensure compliance in how Houses in Multiple Occupation are managed, and tackle issues caused by empty homes.

We are looking for someone who can demonstrate excellent negotiation and interpersonal skills to effectively manage all stakeholders in the enforcement process, including tenants, private landlords, registered providers of social housing, other accommodation providers, Fire Service, Police, and other Council departments.

The role will provide the opportunity to work on a diverse range of cases both in the office and on site in people's homes. You will need good organisational, report writing, and IT skills and attention to detail.

The role is based in Crewe; however, at present the Council is operating a working from home approach and it is likely there will continue to be an element of homeworking in the future so you must be able to work from home. The Council will provide the appropriate IT equipment to enable this.

For an informal chat about the role, please contact Colin Wyatt on (01270) 685691.

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Closing date: 14 December 2021.