Licensing Enforcement Team Leader – North Northamptonshire Council

Location: Sheerness House 41 Meadow Road Kettering (subject to change)

Closing Date: 24/02/2026

To oversee the Licensing Enforcement Team which is responsible for ensuring compliance with licensing law, statutory guidance, and local policy. The Licensing Enforcement Team Leader will lead investigations, manage enforcement actions, and support the Team’s development. The role includes preparing and presenting reports to senior managers and councillors and fostering effective working relationships with internal and external services and agencies to ensure Council resources are targeted appropriately.

• To line manage the Licensing Enforcement Team, allocating work, determining priorities and monitoring performance to ensure the standards laid down by legislation, statutory guidance, codes of practice and Council policies and procedures are met.
• To undertake a personal caseload of assessing licence applications and enforcement work and to oversee the gathering of evidence in accordance with PACE and RIPA, the undertaking of PACE interviews, the preparation of prosecution files, liaison with legal advisors and senior managers and to give evidence in court in accordance with law, policy, and guidance.
• To work in partnership with other council services, the police, other local authorities, and agencies and participate in multi‑agency enforcement operations, including intelligence gathering and sharing where required.
• To assist the Licensing and Service Support Manager to prepare and deliver a workplan for the Team, considering relevant service‑level information and intelligence as well as external partner’ information, to ensure resources are appropriately targeted.
• To assist the Licensing and Service Support Manager by contributing to the review, drafting and implementation of new and existing policies, procedures, training materials and website guidance.
• To act as a source of expertise within the Licensing Service, taking a lead on complex and contentious matters (including time‑sensitive actions, such as the serving of notices or organising urgent licensing hearings), where necessary directing, accompanying, and supporting Licensing Enforcement Officers and other colleagues on such cases.
• Develop and contribute to knowledge sharing across the team and the wider Environmental Health Service, including training programmes, mentoring, coaching and provide day to day technical support for the Licensing Enforcement Team.
• To undertake personal learning development to maintain up‑to‑date specialist technical knowledge including attending training courses, conducting own research, and reading as required, to ensure the Council meetings its statutory obligations.
• To represent the Licensing Service at internal and external meetings and lead on outreach and consultation meetings with the licensed trade.
• To work in collaboration with the Systems Administrator to ensure that all aspects of the licensing enforcement function are effectively and efficiently managed within the licensing database, including the extraction of performance information and other reports which support service delivery.

• Demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people’s behavioural, physical, social and welfare needs.
• Comply with the Council’s policies and procedures including (but not limited to) safeguarding, financial regulations, promotion of equalities, customer care, agreed audit actions and health and safety (ensuring that reasonable care is taken at all times for the health, safety and welfare of yourself and other persons).
• Understand the council’s commitment to Corporate Parenting and take responsibility to support this commitment. Enable the council to be the best corporate parents possible to children and young people in our current and previous care.
• Carry out any other duties which fall within the broad spirit, scope and purpose of this job description and which are commensurate with the grade of the post.

This job description reflects the major tasks to be carried out by the post holder and identifies a level of responsibility at which they will be required to work. In the interests of effective working, the major tasks may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changing needs and circumstances. Such reviews and any consequential changes will be carried out in consultation with the post holder.