Housing Standards Team Manager
| Posting date: | 27 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 July 2025 |
| Location: | Bolton, BL2 2JW |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75712159 |
Summary
Grade K £48,710 to £52,805 per annum plus essential car user allowance. Pay award pending
Contract - Permanent
Role specifics You must hold a full, current and valid driving licence and a vehicle with a current valid MOT certificate. You will also need adequate vehicle insurance cover to comply with the council’s requirements, in line with the Travel Costs Reimbursement Policy
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The Role
Do you have extensive experience in private sector housing enforcement? If you are highly knowledgeable with a strong housing background, appreciative of the complexities and interdependencies across disciplines this may be the role for you.
This is an exciting opportunity managing and developing the Housing Standards service; providing professional and technical expertise; and ensuring our legal obligations in relation to 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 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.
You will also lead on delivering the Council’s objectives around empty properties and the licensing of houses in Multiple Occupation.
About You
You will be an experienced manager with excellent interpersonal, communication and leadership skills to establish and maintain effective teams and develop partnerships.
You’ll 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, a wide variety of enforcement experience and a good understanding of housing and health issues. You will also need an in-depth and practical approach to tackling empty homes and property 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, and our Top Tips too.
Ready to apply? Then please click Apply and upload your anonymised CV and supporting statement discussing your relevant skills and experience and explain how you believe they make you a strong fit for this role.
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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.
This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.
For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk
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