Environmental Health Officer​/Senior EHO - Private Sector Housing

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Salary £33,119 to £48,738 + Market Supplement for CIEH Registered EHPs/EHRB registered practitioners £5,000

We are seeking qualified Environmental Health Officers to join our Private Sector Housing Team and contribute in protecting the quality of life of our residents. This is an exciting time to join the team, as we have just introduced an additional licensing and with further selective licensing schemes planned. This recognizes the importance of good housing and the key role the private sector landlords play in this, to help build thriving communities.

We seek the best talent from the widest pool of people as diversity and inclusion is the key to our success. Reading Borough Council is a Disability Confident Employer and is committed to the recruitment and continued employment of people with disabilities.

We support hybrid working, it's important to us that working arrangements are designed to enable our employees to excel and within this role you'll have the opportunity to work in a way that suits your lifestyle.

The roles focus on licensing of houses in multiple occupation and enforcing legislation on property conditions. You will be inspecting properties identifying defects and potential breaches of legislation, advising landlords on requirements and taking enforcement action where necessary.

Experience in dealing with tall building fire safety and/or licensing of houses in multiple occupation and discretionary licensing schemes is desirable.

You will be based at our offices in the centre of Reading but will spend significant time out of the office on inspections and there is flexibility to work from home, subject to the needs of the service.

The successful candidate will carry out inspections and investigations looking at housing conditions across the borough. Primarily this will be linked to compliance with the hmo licensing schemes, as well as spending a proportion of time dealing with reactive work on housing complaints and providing assistance and advice to tenants and landlords.

Depending on experience we are also looking for candidates who could contribute to our work relating to tall building fire safety and find new ways to deliver services in the private rented sector as well.

The successful candidate will spend significant time on inspections, advising landlords on legal requirements and on the consultation process and on processing hmo licence applications. You will work with partners both internally and externally to administer the scheme and improve property conditions for our residents.

There will be the requirement for some work outside of normal office hours, and you will need a flexible approach to your work. There is also a possibility to assist on an out of hours noise rota (there is additional payment for working on the out of hours noise rota).

Please note the qualifications requirements for this post, which for an environmental health officer is subject to professional registration as an environmental health practitioner via EHRB/Register of Environmental Health Practitioners Registration. New professionals completing their studies and working towards registration may be eligible to apply to the Graduate EHO payscale.

You must have:

• Knowledge of the Private Rented Sector and/or a regulatory environment.
• Possession of a current driving licence

And you should be able to communicate effectively with…