Housing Enforcement Officer
Location: Northamptonshire // Hybrid (2-3 days in the office)
Duration of assignment: 3 months temporary with potential to become permanent
Working hours: Full time 37 hours
Rate: £30 - £35p/h (Umbrella) Inside IR35
Ideal start date: ASAP
Our client is looking for an experienced Housing Enforcement Officer to join them on an interim basis for three months initially, with the potentially opportunity of a permanent role.
They are looking for someone to provide an efficient, high quality advice, information and enforcement service for houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in order to ensure that all HMOs are well managed, safe and habitable and that all licensable HMOs are licensed.
Responsibilities:
- Undertake a range of activities including property inspections, HHSRS assessments, the drafting of schedules of work and the preparation and serving of notices, interviewing people under caution, executing warrants of entry and carrying out works in default and prepare cases for prosecution or the imposition of civil penalties to ensure the maintenance and improvement of standards across the Private Rented sector
- Give evidence as necessary in the Tribunal and Courts Service
- Work collaboratively with the owners and managers of licensable HMOs to ensure that their properties are licensed, well managed, maintained in a good condition, meet the amenity standards and comply with the HMO Management Regulations
- Work collaboratively and proactively with colleagues across the Team, and the wider organisation ensuring delivery of coordinated services to tackle harassment and unlawful eviction, preventing homelessness, and ensuring that managed accommodation is compliant with Housing law
- Work proactively with Planning, Revenues & Benefits, Housing Options & Advice, the Anti Social Behaviour Team, Trading Standards, the Police, Immigration, the Northamptonshire Fire & Rescue Service and other services to identify and target those HMOs that should be licenced but are not, and those non-licensable HMOs that need an urgent inspection because it is suspected that they are severely overcrowded, in a very poor state of repair and/or pose a very high risk to the occupants and their visitors
- Contribute to the development, implementation and co-ordination of new working practices and initiatives that tackle overcrowding, reduce the number of licensable HMOs operating without a licence and improve private sector housing conditions
Requirements:
- HHSRS certificate
- Recent experience of enforcement activities under the Housing Act 2004, including the drafting and issue of enforcement notices, financial penalties, magistrates court, and first tier tribunal
- Recent experience of undertaking housing inspections, the recognition of Category 1 hazards, and the remediation of Category 1 hazards
If you have the above experience and would like to be considered for this opportunity, then we would love to hear from you!
Please apply to receive more information.