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Team Leader (Planning Applications)
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 04 Mehefin 2024 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £47,240 i £53,133 bob blwyddyn, pro rata |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £3000 market supplement + essential car user allowance |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 23 Mehefin 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | Sittingbourne, Kent |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | Swale Borough Council |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: |
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About the Role
As a Team Leader for the Planning Applications team, reporting to the Planning Manager, you will play a key part in the effective delivery of the service, helping to ensure that planning decisions are sound and result in high quality sustainable developments.
As well as managing your own caseload of complex applications, you’ll also manage the work of a team of Planning Officers, offering the experience, support and advice to develop others’ capacity and knowledge. You should be a confident and able communicator as this role will involve presenting at Planning Committee and acting as the Council’s lead witness at appeal.
You will be responsible for preparing reports and attending briefing meetings and Committees. You will represent the Council at planning appeals and must have excellent interpersonal skills to represent the Council at all levels and to liaise effectively across the organisation and externally.
This is a full-time position on a permanent contract.
About Swale Borough Council
Swale Borough Council is a progressive and ambitious Local Authority, located less than an hour from Central London in an attractive and diverse part of Kent involving urban, rural, and coastal areas. We believe that staff are our most valuable asset and we’re committed to attracting and retaining the very best. In recent times we have adapted and evolved to meet the current world by introducing a highly flexible hybrid working policy, along with a 34-hour week, recognising that staff wellbeing and work life balance is high on our agenda.
Our Offer
A range of benefits including:
• 34 hour full time working week with the offices closing at 1:30pm on Friday
• Highly flexible hybrid working opportunities
• 7am to 7pm flexi time to suit personal circumstances for most roles
• Generous holiday entitlement which increases after five years’ local government service plus bank holidays with the option to buy additional leave.
• Additional three days’ leave to enable a close down of the offices between Christmas and New year.
• Free parking
• Range of flexible working opportunities to accommodate people’s home/work life balance including compressed hours, 9-day fortnight.
• Invitations to staff events to celebrate success and support wellbeing that include holistic therapies and outdoor activities
• Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential and independent information and access to counsellors
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with valuable life cover and financial protection for your family.
• Life Assurance – three times your annual salary (for members of the LGPS)
• Season Ticket Loan - to help with the cost of your rail/ bus journey, to and from work
• Lease car salary sacrifice scheme allowing you to lease a brand-new car. The monthly fee includes insurance, servicing and road tax.
• Annual flu vaccine
• Cycle to work scheme
• Staff benefits discounts on leisure, eating out, holidays and shopping
• Excellent learning and career opportunities for committed individuals
• A professional fee payment, if required for the role
About You
You will be an experienced officer, knowledgeable in the field of development management and ideally you will be supervising staff in your present role. You will have a degree level standard of education in a relevant subject and be eligible for full membership of the RTPI, with relevant post qualification experience.
The role requires a strong background in planning within both urban and rural environments, and you will need to draw on your technical knowledge and experience to keep driving the service forward within the unique and diverse context which Swale has to offer.
We are looking for someone who can lead and inspire staff, and help manage complex and competing priorities and deadlines. The successful candidate would be expected to be a proactive problem solver and an advocate for high-quality place making, aiming to make a significant difference to the quality of life for those living and working within the Borough.
A Full Driving License is essential.
Selection Process
Following the submission of your application form, it will be reviewed by the recruiting manager. Those that are successful in securing an interview can expect job specific interview assessment, followed by an interview.
Swale Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employee and volunteers to share this commitment.
Swale Borough Council has a Skilled Worker Sponsorship License which enables successful candidates in eligible roles to be sponsored for work Visa purposes.
If you would like to discuss this position, please contact Ceri Williams, Chief Planning Officer on 01795 417116.
Job Description and Person Specification: https://docs.maidstone.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/330556/Team-Leader-Planning-Applications-SBC-JDPS-May24-JJ.pdf
Interview Date: w/c 1st July 2024
As a Team Leader for the Planning Applications team, reporting to the Planning Manager, you will play a key part in the effective delivery of the service, helping to ensure that planning decisions are sound and result in high quality sustainable developments.
As well as managing your own caseload of complex applications, you’ll also manage the work of a team of Planning Officers, offering the experience, support and advice to develop others’ capacity and knowledge. You should be a confident and able communicator as this role will involve presenting at Planning Committee and acting as the Council’s lead witness at appeal.
You will be responsible for preparing reports and attending briefing meetings and Committees. You will represent the Council at planning appeals and must have excellent interpersonal skills to represent the Council at all levels and to liaise effectively across the organisation and externally.
This is a full-time position on a permanent contract.
About Swale Borough Council
Swale Borough Council is a progressive and ambitious Local Authority, located less than an hour from Central London in an attractive and diverse part of Kent involving urban, rural, and coastal areas. We believe that staff are our most valuable asset and we’re committed to attracting and retaining the very best. In recent times we have adapted and evolved to meet the current world by introducing a highly flexible hybrid working policy, along with a 34-hour week, recognising that staff wellbeing and work life balance is high on our agenda.
Our Offer
A range of benefits including:
• 34 hour full time working week with the offices closing at 1:30pm on Friday
• Highly flexible hybrid working opportunities
• 7am to 7pm flexi time to suit personal circumstances for most roles
• Generous holiday entitlement which increases after five years’ local government service plus bank holidays with the option to buy additional leave.
• Additional three days’ leave to enable a close down of the offices between Christmas and New year.
• Free parking
• Range of flexible working opportunities to accommodate people’s home/work life balance including compressed hours, 9-day fortnight.
• Invitations to staff events to celebrate success and support wellbeing that include holistic therapies and outdoor activities
• Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential and independent information and access to counsellors
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with valuable life cover and financial protection for your family.
• Life Assurance – three times your annual salary (for members of the LGPS)
• Season Ticket Loan - to help with the cost of your rail/ bus journey, to and from work
• Lease car salary sacrifice scheme allowing you to lease a brand-new car. The monthly fee includes insurance, servicing and road tax.
• Annual flu vaccine
• Cycle to work scheme
• Staff benefits discounts on leisure, eating out, holidays and shopping
• Excellent learning and career opportunities for committed individuals
• A professional fee payment, if required for the role
About You
You will be an experienced officer, knowledgeable in the field of development management and ideally you will be supervising staff in your present role. You will have a degree level standard of education in a relevant subject and be eligible for full membership of the RTPI, with relevant post qualification experience.
The role requires a strong background in planning within both urban and rural environments, and you will need to draw on your technical knowledge and experience to keep driving the service forward within the unique and diverse context which Swale has to offer.
We are looking for someone who can lead and inspire staff, and help manage complex and competing priorities and deadlines. The successful candidate would be expected to be a proactive problem solver and an advocate for high-quality place making, aiming to make a significant difference to the quality of life for those living and working within the Borough.
A Full Driving License is essential.
Selection Process
Following the submission of your application form, it will be reviewed by the recruiting manager. Those that are successful in securing an interview can expect job specific interview assessment, followed by an interview.
Swale Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employee and volunteers to share this commitment.
Swale Borough Council has a Skilled Worker Sponsorship License which enables successful candidates in eligible roles to be sponsored for work Visa purposes.
If you would like to discuss this position, please contact Ceri Williams, Chief Planning Officer on 01795 417116.
Job Description and Person Specification: https://docs.maidstone.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/330556/Team-Leader-Planning-Applications-SBC-JDPS-May24-JJ.pdf
Interview Date: w/c 1st July 2024
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