Environmental Health Officer Standards

2 weeks ago

Dorchester, United Kingdom Dorset Council Full time

**About The Role**:
We have an exciting opportunity for an Environmental Health Officer to join our Housing Standards (East Team) in Dorchester, part of the Housing and Community Safety group of services at Dorset Council.

The Housing Standards East team is responsible for carrying out a wide range of duties and roles related to the private sector housing stock in Dorset. This includes the enforcement of the Housing Act 2004, enforcing other associated legislation and bringing long term empty properties back into use.

The main areas of responsibility will be to carry out inspections of privately rented property, assessing hazards, inspecting houses in multiple occupation, liaising with landlords and tenants to improve the standard of rented accommodation. We also use a variety of tools to bring long term empty properties back into use.

You will be expected to manage a caseload of reactive, proactive work project based work. To contribute as one team in order to meet the demands on the service by providing excellent customer service, specialist advice and technical support and to promote the work of the Council, its purpose, aims and values. Work within soft geographical boundaries the team covers areas in the East of Dorset's geographical area including parts of the iconic Jurassic Coast and east/north Dorset.

**Further Information**:
This post requires significant travel. You must have a vehicle (or transport we deem suitable) available for use as needed.

**About Us**:
We’re passionate about making Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Working for us should be no exception.

At Dorset Council we:

- provide more than 450 services to over 300,000 residents
- have ambitious aspirations
- are excited about our future
- care about Dorset and all the people who live here
- know that all roles make a difference and that our employees are key to our success You will:

- have access to a range of employee benefits
- be part of an organisation that supports each other to grow and succeed
- have access to range of training opportunities which will help with your personal development and career progression

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We offer an interview to everyone who declares a disability and meets the essential criteria for the role.

We also look for applicants who share our commitment to our behaviours. We will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

This role is UK based and we will need to establish your Right to Work as part of the appointment process.

We use generic job descriptions and person specifications. This means the job title on any attachments may differ from the job title in the advert. We may provide specific information in a context statement if relevant.

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