Housing and Health Practitioner

Housing and Health Practitioner RBKC610921

Salary range: £39,615 - £47,736 per annum (Pending pay award)

Work location: London

Hours per week: 36

Contract type: Permanent

Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS check

Closing date: 3rd December 2023

Interview date: Week commencing 11th December 2023

About Us:

Use your skills to improve the quality of housing in the private rented sector.

In Kensington and Chelsea, we put local people and local businesses at the heart of decision-making, working in partnership with them to provide quality services that are responsive, effective and efficient. We want to be the best council, committed to protecting the health, safety and welfare of our residents and the public. We work to ensure that homes in the borough’s private rented sector are safe and well managed by responsible landlords and letting agents. We work with landlords to create a thriving professional private rented sector whilst tackling those who fail to provide a decent, safe home.

 The Role:

Joining a supportive and expanding team of like-minded professionals, you’ll carry out investigations and inspections of private sector housing, including houses in multiple occupation within our mandatory and additional licensing schemes.  You’ll advise on energy efficiency measures, and where necessary enforce health and safety standards using the full range of powers available.

There’s a high level of ‘hands on’ casework and project work, dealing with everyone from vulnerable tenants to professional portfolio landlords. Your overall aim will be to provide a high quality, customer-focused service that contributes to the overall improvement of housing conditions across this diverse borough.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

Committed, passionate and resilient, your background could be in anything from surveying, building and planning to housing management, but you will need a good basic understanding of construction and some experience of enforcement.

We offer full training in risk assessment, energy efficiency and other technical areas, as well as peer-to-peer mentoring. Also important is your ability to connect with residents, and fully understand their issues, so we’re looking for strong interpersonal skills.

Well-organised and systematic, you’ll be able to research and analyse information, and follow complex processes. You will also be joining an organisation that is focused on your career and development. Regular one to ones will give you the opportunity to plan a career path, identify training and qualifications needed to get you there and support in achieving your goals.

There has never been a better time to join RBKC as we go from strength to strength delivering outstanding services to our residents and community.

Please apply online explaining how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and job description. CV’s will not be considered for this role.

Application process

Please do not upload any documents, including CVs/Covering Letters or supporting statements, as these documents will not be reviewed and could result in your application not being shortlisted.

You should describe how you meet the person specification requirements for the position you are applying for in Section G of the application form.

 Additional information

We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.

We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.

This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.

We do not accept speculative CVs from any source.

Please note, we will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk / spam folder as our system generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.

 If you experience difficulties with the recruitment application process, please contact the recruitment team by email: recruitment@rbkc.gov.uk