Site Officers - Gypsy and Traveller Service
| Posting date: | 15 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £30,559 to £33,366 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 October 2025 |
| Location: | Hertfordshire, Eastern England |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Hertfordshire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | HCC28074 |
Summary
Join our highly regarded Gypsy & Traveller service within a leading local authority.
We are a busy operational team that works on a range of maintenance projects for our tenants, who live on our 10 residential sites across Hertfordshire
Our team makes a real difference to our tenants by providing a maintenance service to their plot, the sanitary facilities and surrounding areas.
The 10 sites are in the following locations:
Sites:
Cheshunt
Tring
Hemel Hempstead
Watford x 2
Barnet
St Albans x 3
Stevenage
Hatfield
Main base is Stevenage, although your day will be planned around the needs of the sites. We are a county wide service
As well as the store at Head Office, each gypsy and traveller site has an equipped site office where you can prepare for your day and access materials needed.
Work is varied and be carrying out fence repairs, plumbing fixtures to maintaining brick work and pre planned maintenance
Maintaining tidiness in public areas, and to encourage tenants to keep their plots presentable
You will required to take the on-call phone one week in every eight as part of our of hours service. The out of hours cover a 7 day week and are: 16:00pm – 08:00am Monday to Friday and 24 hours a day on Saturday and Sunday.
Carrying out reactive/ emergency maintenance as well as planned improvements on our residential sites
You will have access to a manual vehicle to travel to sites
Tools are provided
Essential:
Work Record of general maintenance skills and experience.
Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills
A full manual driving licence
Excellent customer service skills
Desirable:
A building qualification in either Electrical, Plumbing or Carpentry.
Competent with Microsoft IT packages to manage training records, emails and electronic calendar
Good record keeping skills
Ability to work under pressure
Organisational Skills/ Time management
We are a busy operational team that works on a range of maintenance projects for our tenants, who live on our 10 residential sites across Hertfordshire
Our team makes a real difference to our tenants by providing a maintenance service to their plot, the sanitary facilities and surrounding areas.
The 10 sites are in the following locations:
Sites:
Cheshunt
Tring
Hemel Hempstead
Watford x 2
Barnet
St Albans x 3
Stevenage
Hatfield
Main base is Stevenage, although your day will be planned around the needs of the sites. We are a county wide service
As well as the store at Head Office, each gypsy and traveller site has an equipped site office where you can prepare for your day and access materials needed.
Work is varied and be carrying out fence repairs, plumbing fixtures to maintaining brick work and pre planned maintenance
Maintaining tidiness in public areas, and to encourage tenants to keep their plots presentable
You will required to take the on-call phone one week in every eight as part of our of hours service. The out of hours cover a 7 day week and are: 16:00pm – 08:00am Monday to Friday and 24 hours a day on Saturday and Sunday.
Carrying out reactive/ emergency maintenance as well as planned improvements on our residential sites
You will have access to a manual vehicle to travel to sites
Tools are provided
Essential:
Work Record of general maintenance skills and experience.
Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills
A full manual driving licence
Excellent customer service skills
Desirable:
A building qualification in either Electrical, Plumbing or Carpentry.
Competent with Microsoft IT packages to manage training records, emails and electronic calendar
Good record keeping skills
Ability to work under pressure
Organisational Skills/ Time management
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