Planning Enforcement Officer
| Posting date: | 18 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £18.45 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | per hour PAYE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 June 2024 |
| Location: | Guildford, London, GU2 4BB |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | Guildford 5249162 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Temporary Planning Enforcement Officer
Job Ref: Guildford 5249162
Pay Rate: £18.45 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 36 Monday - Friday, 8.30am to 5pm
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: Guildford, London
Basic DBS disclosure required for this role
The purpose of the role is to deliver a professional service with high standards of advice and support and resolving cases of varying complexity as they arise. Ensure compliance with statutory regulations, legislation, professional codes of practice and adherence to council policy. Deliver projects, interventions and initiatives and develop policies (together with the Planning Strategy teams) in-line with corporate and business plans. Ensure and develop appropriate levels of quality and specialist knowledge within the Case Management and Customer Services teams.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide technical oversight of planning enforcement
Deliver customer-focused specialist advice, services and enforcement for one area of specialism, keeping up to date with current and emerging legislation, best practice and policy to ensure continuous development and improvement in services
Ensure personal, professional development is maintained to the required standards
Working collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation, members and managing key relationships e.g. with members, partners, other stakeholders.
Access and accurately update all relevant information systems, both customer and back office ensuring that the master customer record is updated and maintained through verification and validation, and in accordance with Data Protection principles.
Manage complex or contentious cases and inspections that will require an understanding of planning enforcement, processes and compliance, regulations and legislation, acting as the single point of contact for customers on those cases, attending court as appropriate.
Acting as member of corporate or community project teams - providing specialist advice and input.
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF.
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.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
Qualifications:
Educated to NVQ level 3 / A Level standard or equivalent experience.
Skills & Experience:
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Experience in planning enforcement work is essential. Ideally with experience in an authority with rural land and Green Belt.
Excellent ability to reason, process information, be curious, ask questions and analyse potential outcomes to make timely and effective decisions.
Excellent interpersonal skills and confidence in dealing with people.
Excellent knowledge and practical experience of applying Planning law.
Excellent organisational skills.
The ability to devise, learn and adapt to new systems and processes.
The ability to work independently and as part of a high performing team.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
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Job Ref: Guildford 5249162
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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