Job Title Housing Standards Manager Team Housing Standards Hours 37 per week Grade J £44,711 to £48,710 per annum (£23.17 - £25.24 per hour) plus essential car user allowance Contract Permanent Role specifics Diploma or degree in Environmental Health, together with a certificate of registration of EHRB (formerly EHORB).
A full, current and valid driving licence with access to your own vehicle which has a current valid MOT certificate.
Supporting Statement: In your supporting statement, please outline your experience of housing standards management from an environmental health perspective.
Ask us about flexible working options to fit with your work/life balance - #HappytoTalkFlexible The Role This is an exciting opportunity managing and developing the Housing Standards service; providing professional and technical expertise; and ensuring our legal obligations in relation for property standards and other critical interventions to improve the health, safety and wellbeing of residents are met.
A varied and challenging role managing a team of qualified professionals with great opportunities to develop staff through apprenticeships and further professional study.
You will identify new opportunities to enhance the service through partnership and close collaborative work, including across Community Housing Services, exploring new opportunities and building a positive contribution to housing and health, through the wider public health agenda.
About You You will be a qualified Environmental Health Officer, highly knowledgeable with a strong housing background, appreciative of the complexities and interdependencies across disciplines.
You'll be an experienced manager with excellent interpersonal, communication and leadership skills to establish and maintain effective teams and develop partnerships.
You will lead and develop projects, influencing and negotiating opportunities for funding and service development, whilst being highly organised to ensure compliance with changing legislation and regulation.
You will have high competency with the Housing Health & Safety Rating System, wide variety of enforcement and good understanding of housing and health issues and experience tackling empty homes, and licensing schemes.
About Us This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.
Bolton is a great place to work.
We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous.
We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people.
We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.
As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes.
In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.
Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits too.
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