Environmental Health Officer/Housing Standards Officer – Health and Housing

Town Hall
160 Whitechapel Road
LONDON
E1 1BJ

Environmental Health Officer/Housing Standards Officer – Health and Housing

We offer a 35 hour week with the option to earn flexi time and approximately 6 weeks paid holiday depending on your public service experience.

Role Purpose

As an Officer with delegated authority, use accredited specialist multi-faceted skills and techniques to carry out a programme of pro-active and reactive functions which will contribute to raising Housing Standards in Tower Hamlets private rented stock.

Key Responsibilities

1. Using delegated powers and specialist skills (i.e. audit, inspection, enforcement powers, negotiation and persuasion) to gain and ensure compliance with Environmental Health legislation so that Housing Standards are maintained and enhanced for residents.
2. Dealing with a range of licensing functions that the Service currently enforces.
3. Complaint investigations
4. Enforcement
5. Negotiation and persuasion
6. Licensing enforcement
7. Inspections

Requirements

The successful candidate will have a degree in Environmental Health or relevant Housing enforcement experience, with an understanding of the full legislative requirements/enforcement powers available to regulate the private rented sector. Ideally, you should have a driving licence and provide a car for work purposes.

Additional Information

Tower Hamlets is a fascinating borough, a multi-cultural community steeped in history. The contrasts and challenges in Environmental Health work are vast. Our Service is forward-looking and has many exciting challenges to face.

This is a unique opportunity, and we are looking for a motivated and dedicated individual to help deliver on our key strategic objectives.

For an informal discussion about this post, please contact Julie Liu, Health and Housing Team Leader, Housing and Regeneration on 0207 364 7737, or email julie.liu@towerhamlets.gov.uk.

Tower Hamlets' vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent, and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.

Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.

We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.