Senior Housing Options Officer
£27,323 - £28,922 plus essential car user allowance
Ref: M090
We are looking for a Senior Housing Options Officer to join our busy Housing Needs team.
You will play an important part in assisting us to achieve the gold standard for homelessness, deal with operational issues as they arise and support and mentor team members by validating their decisions and assist with complex cases.
You will ensure the needs of homeless and other housing applicants are investigated and assessed and that Council policies and procedures are followed by team members.
Closing Date: 16 June 2014
Interviews to take place: 4 July 2014
For an informal discussion regarding this post please contact Sharon Bignell on 01509 634 671
Our Council puts customers at the heart of everything it does and we need an exceptional person to help tell our story of providing quality, value for money services.
We provide a range of services for 171,000 residents in Charnwood – one of England’s largest boroughs by population - and we need an enthusiastic, creative and experienced communications professional to help us tell everyone what we do.
You’ll need to have a proven track record of producing outstanding written work, conjuring up creative campaigns and developing engaging content for social media and publications.
It would be even better if you have experience of working with and influencing senior managers with your expertise and insight as well as being able to sniff out a good story, work comfortably with journalists and be able to demonstrate your reputation management skill.
In return for your awesome skills, you will join a friendly, creative and positive team with a penchant for cake and a passion for delivering innovative work and talking with our customers.
Sound good? Then please contact Rachel Beaumont, Improvement and Organisational Development Manager on (01509) 634504 or email rachel.beaumont@charnwood.gov.uk for an informal chat.
Please send all completed forms to hr@charnwood.gov.uk
Oh, and you might want to follow us on Twitter @CharnwoodBC too or on Facebook at ‘Your Charnwood’!
We are looking for a Principal Solicitor to join our Legal Team, which provides legal support across the Council’s services. The role offers experience in a broad range of Local Government law with an emphasis on planning, property and Procurement.
We are seeking an admitted solicitor with significant post qualification experience of land and property law, town and country planning law and/or procurement law. The role will also involve supervision of junior members of the team.
Benefits include Local Government Final Salary Pension Scheme and flexitime working.
We base selection on job related criteria. Disabled persons and ethnic minorities are particularly welcome to apply. Disabled people who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed.
For an informal discussion, please telephone Sanjit Sull on 01509 634 611.
Send completed application forms to hr@charnwood.gov.uk
Closing Date: 24th June 2014
Interview date: w/c 7th July 2014
Permanent, Part Time Public Convenience Cleansing Operative W102
25 Hours per week on a rostered basis includes Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays Situated in Loughborough
Grade 1 - £14,373 up to £14,880 pro rata
to carry out cleansing duties within the three facilities in Loughborough Town Centre. The post holder will be required to work with a small team on a rostered system, and will be responsible for the opening and closing of the facilities, being on duty within the facility during opening hours and carry out a cleansing regime to a very high standard.
For further details or an informal chat please contact Michael Bird Market, Fairs and Town Centre Operations Officer on 01509 634624.
Please send completed application forms to hr@charnwood.gov.uk
In April this year the Council’s existing Green Spaces and Engineering department was outsourced to a private contractor. The Council’s client function therefore needs someone with arboriculture experience and an understanding of how green spaces are managed.
To be successful in this role you must have experience and appropriate qualifications to provide advice and support on a range of open space management issues, but in particular the challenges faced by our growing stock of trees and best practice in the industry for managing green spaces.
If you like to work in a busy but friendly environment, recognise the benefits of teamwork, can multitask and have a can do attitude then we want to hear from you. In return, Charnwood not only offers the usual benefits of flexitime and generous leave, but is also a great place to live and work, offering some of the best countryside in the East Midlands.
For an informal discussion please contact 01509 634680.
Closing Date: Fri 30th May 2014
Interviews will take place week commencing 9th June 2014
Please send completed application forms to hr@charnwood.gov.uk
Charnwood Borough sits within the three cities ofLeicester, Nottingham and Derby. One third of the 167,000 population live in the thriving university town of Loughborough, with most of the remaining two thirds within the small towns and villages of the Wolds, the Soar and Wreake Valleys, Charnwood Forest and on the edge of Leicester. The Service requires a dynamic, motivated and organised planning professional with significant recent experience of complex major development proposals to work within our Major Development Team.
The role will involve the delivery of major development sites identified in our new local plan including sustainable urban extensions, an extension to the existing Loughborough University Science & Enterprise Park and the regeneration of the Watermead area of Thurmaston.
You must be able to communicate clearly and effectively with a wide variety of people and work to tight deadlines with the minimum of supervision, exercising tact and diplomacy at all times. The role will require you to deal with a wide range of complex planning and regeneration issues and to develop creative solutions.
No agencies please.
Please send completed application forms to hr@charnwood.gov.uk
Compliance Technician, Planning Enforcement,
Development Management
Salary: Scale 4 (SCP£17,333 – £19,317) 37 Hrs
This is a Permanent Full Time position and currently carries an essential Car user allowance.
Charnwood Borough sits within the three cities of Leicester, Nottingham and Derby. One third of the 167,000 population live in the thriving university town of Loughborough, with most of the remaining two thirds within the small towns and villages of the Wolds, the Soar and Wreake Valleys, Charnwood Forest and on the edge of Leicester. The Service requires a well motivated and organised person to assist with the delivery of the Enforcement Service within Housing, Planning and Regeneration Services. The post involves the monitoring of planning permissions and developments, and related planning obligations and the provision of general support to the planning enforcement team. The role will involve site visits and preliminary investigatory work. The ability to read plans and a good overall knowledge of ICT is essential as are good oral communication skills.
Sport and Active Recreation Team are looking to recruit a team of hardworking, enthusiastic, friendly, and highly motivated sport & physical activity leaders to deliver a range of sport and recreational activities across the Borough of Charnwood as part of Sport and Active Recreation Summer Activity Programmes.
Suitable candidates will be required to implement and oversee the provision of sport and physical activities for large groups of children/young people.
Applicants must have a minimum of one year's experience of sports coaching/leadership/leisure activities delivery, and working with groups of children/young people. You must also possess a recognised sports coaching/leadership qualification (Minimum Level 1) You must also have attended or are willing to attend prior to commencement of the post, a First Aid course and Sports Coach UK, Safeguarding/Child protection workshop. Excellent communication skills with the ability to plan organise and deliver effective activity sessions are essential. The nature of the work means applicants must have a flexible attitude to work hours. As a "Regulated Activity" a DBS check is essential.
For an informal discussion please contact Andrew Doodson (01509 634592).
Please send completed application forms to hr@charnwood.gov.uk
Sport and Active Recreation Team are looking to recruit a team of hardworking, enthusiastic, friendly, and highly motivated sport & physical activity leaders to deliver a range of sport and recreational activities across the Borough of Charnwood as part of Sport and Active Recreation Summer Activity Programmes. Suitable candidates will be required to implement and oversee the provision of sport and physical activities for large groups of children/young people. Leaders will be responsible for supervising and leading activity sessions, and helping to train/support a team of activity assistants under their supervision. Applicants must have a minimum of one year's experience of sports coaching/leadership/leisure activities delivery, and working with groups of children/young people. You must also possess a recognised sports coaching/leadership qualification (Minimum Level 1) You must also have attended or are willing to attend prior to commencement of the post, a First Aid course and Sports Coach Uk, Safeguarding/Child protection workshop. Excellent communication skills with the ability to plan organise and deliver effective activity sessions are essential. The nature of the work means applicants must have a flexible attitude to work hours.
As a "Regulated Activity" a DBS check is essential
For an informal discussion please contact Andrew Doodson (01509 634592).
Please send completed application forms to hr@charnwood.gov.uk.
PLANNING & REGENERATION SERVICES
PRINCIPAL PLANNING OFFICER (Post P214) – 14.5 hours
per week
Scale PO2 (SCP 39 42)
£33,128 up to £35,784 (prorata)
The Service requires an enthusiastic, motivated and
organised planning professional with substantial recent
experience of development plan making to support the
preparation of a planning policy framework for the
Borough and the delivery of major growth.
This is a part time post for 14.5 hours a week.
Job details and application forms are available online at
www.charnwood.gov.uk/jobs. If you are unable to
access the internet please telephone 01509 634604
quoting the relevant job reference number.
No agencies please.
Closing date: Monday 5th May 2014
Interviews: w/c 19th May 2014
Housing, Planning, Regeneration & Regulatory Services
Administration Assistant (37 hours per week)
Scale 3 £15,882 £
16,998
PERMANENT
We are seeking to appoint an Administration Assistant
to join our busy team, based at our Southfields offices
in Loughborough.
Supporting the strategic and private sector housing
service you will have general office administration
experience and a highly organised, methodical, and
flexible approach – with excellent time management
skills, attention to detail and respect for confidentiality.
Excellent IT and interpersonal skills are required, as is
the ability to work both within a team and individually,
with a minimum of supervision.
A commitment to customer care is essential.
For an informal discussion please contact David Scruton
on: (01509) 634532.
An information pack is available from our website
www.charnwood.gov.uk
Closing date: 2nd May 2014
Leicester-Shire & Rutland Sport (LRS) in partnership with the 7 Districts of Leicestershire, Leicester City & Rutland would like to support 11 newly graduated students (graduated 2014) in a once in a life-time 12 month placement opportunity.
We are looking for self motivated individuals to help support Local Sport Alliances deliver sport and physical activity opportunities to their communities and ensure that a lasting legacy for the 2012 Games is achieved, whilst gaining invaluable on-the-job training.
Successful candidates will support the delivery of National initiatives locally such as Sportivate, School Games and the new Satellite Club programme.
Based and hosted in communities, an allowance of £12,000 - £15,752 (dependent on locality and responsibility) will be paid and training opportunities provided.
The closing date for applications is 5.00 pm on Friday, 30th May, with interviews being held on Tuesday, 17th June at SportPark at Loughborough University, 3 Oakwood Drive, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3QF. Start dates will vary depending on locality area; however successful candidates will be expected to attend an induction event on the 4th & 5th September. Please note that candidates may be asked to attend an additional meeting, prior to being offered a position.
For more information and an application pack, please click on the link below or contact Leicester-Shire & Rutland Sport by emailing lrsport@lboro.ac.uk or telephoning 01 509 564888.
Completed applications should be returned by 5.00 pm on the 30th May 2014 by emailing to lrsport@lboro.ac.uk or should reach us by post on the 30th May by returning to Business Support, Leicester-Shire & Rutland Sport, SportPark, 3 Oakwood Drive, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3QF.
Closing Date: Fri, 30 May 2014
Leicester-Shire & Rutland Sport actively promotes diversity in employment and sport and welcome
Charnwood Borough sits within the three cities of Leicester, Nottingham and Derby. One third of the 167,000 population live in the thriving university town of Loughborough, with most of the remaining two thirds within the small towns and villages of the Wolds, the Soar and Wreake Valleys, Charnwood Forest and on the edge of Leicester.
The Service requires a dynamic, motivated and organised planning professional with significant recent experience of complex major development proposals to lead the Development Management Group including the day to day management of Planning Enforcement, Building Control and the Street Naming and Numbering functions.
The role will involve the delivery of major development sites identified in our new local plan including sustainable urban extensions, an extension to the existing Loughborough University Science & Enterprise Park and the regeneration of the Watermead area of Thurmaston. The successful candidate will also be responsible for leading transformational change to deliver excellent customer service and new and more efficient business processes and will therefore make an important contribution to the Service Management Team.
You must be able to communicate clearly and effectively with a wide variety of people and work to tight deadlines with the minimum of supervision, exercising tact and diplomacy at all times. The role will require you to deal with a wide range of complex planning and regeneration issues and to develop creative solutions.
Job details and application forms are available online at www.charnwood.gov.uk/jobs. If you are unable to access the internet please telephone 01509 634606 quoting the relevant job reference number.
No agencies please.
Closing date: Friday 2nd May 2014.
Interviews: 21st May 2014
Business Centre Receptionist
The Oak and Ark Business Centre
Charnwood Borough Council require a receptionist to
cover receptionist duties at the Ark (loughborough)and
Oak (Sileby) Business centres.
Working hours are based on 25 hours per week to
include some mornings and some afternoons rotas. You
will also be required to work full time hours to cover
holiday,sickness and training periods.
Cadidates should have experience with, postal
franking,windows microsoft office, and interpersonel
skills.
Applications can be downloaded from www.charnwood.gov.uk/jobs
Please return all completed application forms to hr@charnwood.gov.uk or HR Office, Charnwood Borough Council, Southfield Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 2TT
If you enjoy a challenging and varied role, and have excellent IT and administrative skills then we would like to hear from you.
Providing secretarial and administrative support to the Council’s Democratic Services and Mayoralty Team, you will act as a first point of contact for enquiries, maintain records, manage diaries, arrange meetings and engagements and assist with the production of agendas and minutes. You must be flexible and able to work both in a small team and on your own initiative. You will be able to maintain confidences and will be used to workingaccurately to strict deadlines and able to juggle competing priorities.
For enquiries about the role or if you require any further information please contact Michael Hopkins, Democratic Services Manager, on 01509 634785.
We base selection on job related criteria. Disabled people and ethnic minorities are particularly welcome to apply as they are underrepresented at the Council. Disabled people who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed.
Please send completed application forms to hr@charnwood.gov.uk
or post to
HR Section, Charnwood Borough Council, Council Offices, Southfield Road, Loughborough, LE11 2TX.
LANDLORLD SERVICES: HOUSING ASSET MANAGEMENT
Stock condition and Data Administrative Assistant
Scale 4 £17,333 - £19,317
We are seeking to appoint an Administrative Assistant to join our team to provide administrative support to Housing Asset Management at our offices at Limehurst Depot in Loughborough. This is a full time permanent post.
You will be responsible for updating our housing asset management data base, analysing the information and producing reports on non-decent properties to enable us to prepare programmes of work. You will also undertake a variety of administration duties including data entry, dealing with telephone queries, minute taking and post.
You will have a good working knowledge of the decent homes standard and previous experience of analysing the reason for non-decency. You will have previous experience of carrying out administrative duties and analysing data and will be a competent user of Excel. You will be IT literate and will have obtained Functional Skills in ICT Level 1 together with a BTEC in Business Administration. You will also possess excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work both within a team and individually with a minimum of supervision, meeting targets and deadlines.
A commitment to customer care is essential.
Please send all completed application forms to hr@charnwood.gov.uk or Charnwood Borough Council, Southfield Road, Loughborough, LE11 2TX
For an informal discussion please contact Martin Harper on 01509 632539
An information pack is available from our website www.charnwood.gov.uk
Closing date 27th March 2014
Improvement and Organisational Development Team
2 x Part Time HR Admin Assistants Post No: M275
Salary – Scale 3 - £15,882 - £16,998 (Permanent, 21 hours per week) Pro Rata
Do you know what it takes to organise and support others? Do you have a keen eye for detail in your work?
If so then you’ll enjoy this challenging HR Admin Assistant role. We are looking for 2 enthusiastic HR Admin Assistants to join our HR team, to provide support and assistance for all aspects of the HR service, including recruitment, starters and leavers, changes to personal circumstances, (personal, maternity, job, etc.) and other terms and conditions of employment.
The ideal candidates will preferably have experience of working in an administrative role, or in an HR environment, and will have good organisational, communication and IT skills and excellent attention to detail.
This is an exciting opportunity to play an important role in our busy team while developing your experience, skills and knowledge in HR. If you are interested then we would like to hear from you.
For an informal discussion please contact Rachel Beaumont on (01509) 634504
Closing Date: Friday 4th April
All Applications can be downloaded via our website: www.charnwood.gov.uk/jobs and returned to:
Or posted to:
HR Office
Charnwood Borough Council
Southfield Road
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 2TT
Financial Services
Payments Clerk
Post No: Q045
(Temporary Maternity Leave Cover for up to 12 Months)
We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly organised
individual to join our Payments Section, based at the
main Council Offices on Southfields Road, Loughborough.
The main responsibilities of the role are:
• Statement reconciliation
• Inputting invoices into the system
• Supplier queries
• Must have been exposed to matching invoices
electronically to an IT system (GRNI)
You must have experience of working with computerised
financial management systems, preferably in an
accounts payable environment, strong IT and clerical
skills. Previous experience of working within the public
sector and using Agresso 5.6 would be an advantage.
You will be highly organised with the ability to prioritise
your workload to achieve deadlines with accuracy and
adaptable with the ability to work under pressure on
your own initiative and as part of a team. Completed application forms to be sent to:
Completed Applications must be sent to:
Post: HR Office, Charnwood County Council, Southfield Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 2TT
Email: hr@charnwood.gov.uk
For an informal discussion, please contact Sanjay Anand
on 01509 634814.
Loughborough Town Hall is looking to recruit a Box
Office Manager who will oversee all operational aspects
of the service. The candidate will have experience of
both back office and sales aspects of ticket selling
software, banking and budget management, staff
management and a good retail knowledge. A knowledge
of the local area will also be important as the service
gives advice on local tourist attractions and places of
interest.
Please return all application forms to:
Post:
HR Office
Charnwood Borough Council
Southfields Road
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 2TT
Email:
For any further enquiries please call HR Office on 01509 634 606
Part time Control Operator (Fixed term until 31 March
2015), minimum of 24 hours per week
We are seeking a Control Operator to work on in our
Lifeline office. Duties comprise responding to alarm calls
from vulnerable tenants of sheltered accommodation
and private customers of the Lifeline service, making
welfare calls to customers, and taking repairs requests
calls.
As the successful candidate you must be able to deal
calmly and confidently with a variety of situations
arising from calls and be able to take assertive action in
response to emergencies. You will have an ability to
remain patient while assessing situations, be polite and
courteous at all times, and be able to work on your own
initiative.
You will work a minimum of 24 hours per week, to
include weekends and bank holidays as per rota. You
will also be required to cover for colleagues’ sickness
and holidays.
The post is subject to a satisfactory Standard CRB
disclosure.
For an informal discussion please contact Sally Harbey
on 01509 643970
Please send all completed application foms to hr@charnwood.gov.uk or Charnwood Borough Council, Southfield Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 2TT
(please note we do NOT
accept CV’s).
Closing Date: 28 March 2014