Starting salary: £47,394*
Location: 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Fixed Term until 31st December 2025
Closing date: Tuesday 30th May 2024 at 23:59
Interviews to be held: TBC

*plus 7% of salary annual retention payment and zone 1 and 2 travel allowance and £2000 ‘golden hello’. Golden hello for external candidates only.*

About Camden

Camden is changing on the inside to make life better for everyone. Our residents and communities are at the heart of everything we do. We’re home to the most important conversations happening today and we’re making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind.  Here’s where you can help decide a better future for us all. We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Environmental Health practitioner to lead on the review/renewal of our borough wide additional HMO licensing scheme.

What You’ll Be Doing / How You’ll Be Involved

You’ll be leading on the project to review and renew the borough wide Additional HMO licensing scheme. You will work and build relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders, ensuring that key milestones are achieved and the project is driven forward. 

The work will be varied from compiling and reviewing a variety of data; pulling together reports and ensuring a successful public consultation exercise. 

To view the Job Profile, please click HEREor copy and paste the below URL into your browser: http://camdocs.camden.gov.uk/HPRMWebDrawer/Record/10473887/file/document?inline 

All About You

To find out more about what it is like to work at Camden, meet some of our People by visiting 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/our-stories'.

To be considered for this exciting opportunity the successful candidate will be a qualified and experienced Environmental Health Officer with a certificate of registration issued by the Environmental Health Registration Board (EHRB) or hold Chartered status. Additionally you’ll have 5 years’ post qualification experience.

The ideal candidate will have a detailed knowledge/understanding of the Housing Act 2004 in relation to HMO licensing and relevant supporting regulations. Have an organised approach to own workload whilst dealing with conflicting prirorities. You will have experience of working collaboratively with internal and external partners to identify innovative and creative approaches to service directives. You are able to demonstrate your involvement in managing, organising and coordinating cross-service projects, and identify how this has led to a successful outcome. You will have proven experience preparing reports at a high level.

What We Offer

At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits. From flexible working to 27 days annual leave (+ bank holidays!). We also know that a work life balance is extremely important so we also offer family leave, loan schemes and access to our incredible staff networks. We also have an incredible pensions scheme. 

Visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.

Additional information 

To apply for this job please follow the "Apply" link. In the ‘Why you?’ section of the application you will be required to demonstrate how you meet the role criteria noted in the Job Profile under the “About You” section. 

We will only consider applications from candidates who complete a ‘Why Me – Supporting Statement’ and address the essential criteria outlined in the ‘About You’ section of the Job Profile.

Inclusion and Diversity

We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.

To discover more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit https://www.camdenjobs.co.uk/inclusion-and-diversity 

Asking for Adjustments 

Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at resourcing@camden.gov.uk  or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG

Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.