Interim Neighbourhood Officer – Housing

Reference no:  Manchester 0007 3008 / 1

Pay Rate: £25.00 per hour PAYE 

This opening assignment is for 2-3 months

Basic DBS disclosure required for this role

Hybrid working

The purpose of the is to provide high quality, customer focused, flexible and timely support thereby contributing to the achievement of objectives of a high quality service.

The role holder will have an understanding of the impact of statutory regulations, legislation and national guidelines on core regulatory activities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support with the delivery of Manchester City Council’s statutory enforcement obligations and where necessary liaise with other Council departments or relevant bodies.
• Deal effectively with requests for within designated timescales and maintaining accurate records of all relevant investigations, inspections and meetings.
• Provide technical and legislative advice in interpretation and enforcement of relevant legislation to officers across Neighbourhood Services. Assist in the review and translation of statutory regulations, legislation and national guidelines.
• Work closely with key stakeholders to develop and maintain effective partnerships, linkages and greater coordinated working ensuring effective community and member engagement and clear channels of communication.
• Ensure that complex information is interpreted to a high standard and potential solutions are communicated to relevant parties.
• Roles at this level may be required to undertake management duties, either through direct line management of a team (including appraisals, performance management and other duties) or through matrix management of a virtual team of officers.
• Personal commitment to continuous self development and service improvement.
• Through personal example, open commitment and clear action, ensure diversity is positively valued, resulting in equal access and treatment in employment, service delivery and communications.

“Role Requirements” – to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria:

Qualifications:

1. Qualified in Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) or willingness to work towards – essential.
2. In depth knowledge, understanding and practical application of housing legislation or a degree in Environmental Health or an HNC in Environmental Health.

Skills & Experience:

1. Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
2. Ability to absorb, understand and quickly assimilate complex information and concepts and compare information from a number of different sources.
3. Excellent time management skills, creating own work schedules, prioritising, preparing in advance and setting realistic timescales for own self and others. Has the ability to visualise a sequence of actions needed to achieve a specific goal and how to estimate the resources required.
4. Ability to formulate independently a range of options for new or unfamiliar situations and to select the appropriate course of action to produce a logical, practical and acceptable solution. An ability to make independent decisions of a relatively uniform nature.
5. Ability to find creative solutions where there are no existing parameters or procedural framework.
6. Ability to use multiple applications, systems and associated software packages.
7. ICT Skills: Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).

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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.