Grants and Loans Officer

4 weeks ago


Colchester, United Kingdom Colchester Borough Council Full time

**Contract Type**:Permanent

**Working Hours**:37 hours per week

**A driving license is essential for this role.**

The Council are seeking a Grants and Loans Officer to support vulnerable residents to remain safe and independent in their home by providing an effective technical surveying and advice service to enable adaptation, improvement and repair work to dwellings with grant or loan aid.

**Duties of the role**

We are expanding our Healthy Homes team in order to deliver a range of financial assistance schemes to improve housing conditions. We have a large Disabled Facilities Grants programme and offer other discretionary forms of financial assistance to residents.

Colchester City Council recognises that housing conditions are a key determinant of health and wellbeing and that a citizens environment plays a key role in protecting, sustaining and improving people’s quality of life.

Our approach is to consider the home environment and individuals holistically and the Healthy Homes Team makes use of the full range of Council resources available. We work closely with front line health and social care professionals to identify and remove housing related barriers to better health, particularly for our vulnerable residents.

**Qualifications and skills required**

To be successful in this role, you will hold a BSc/MSc or CIEH Diploma in Environmental Health, or hold a recognised formal qualification (e.g. BTEC, HNC) in housing or surveying and extensive relevant experience and working knowledge of building construction.

We also hope that you are Certified as competent to conduct HHSRS surveys/assessments and enforcement, registration with the Environmental Health Officers’ Registration Board (or Scottish equivalent), Membership of a relevant professional body e.g. CIEH or CIH.

**What we offer**

The Council encourages all employees to maximise their potential. You will be entitled to join an attractive pension scheme and will receive a generous annual leave entitlement, including two extra company holidays during the Christmas period.

Other benefits include:

- Flexible working
- Gym, travel and online retail discounts
- Excellent training, development and progression opportunities

For an informal discussion about this role, please contact Jon Parsons, Healthy Homes Manager on 01206 282590.

For further information regarding this vacancy, please click here.

Colchester City Council has a wide range of services and facilities that can involve dealing with children or vulnerable adults. We treat our obligations for the safety of children and vulnerable adults seriously and expect our staff to be committed to the principles of our published policies and to adhere to the procedures contained within them.



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