Environmental Health Officer/Technical Officer (Career Graded)

Team: Private Sector Housing, Housing Solutions

Job Family: Providing – CBG9 (career graded, rising to CBG11 - Directing)
Salary, starting at: £34,811 - £37,526 per annum pro rata (rising to £41,042 - £44,296 per annum pro rata)
Hours: 37 Hours per week

Location: Working from home and any CBC offices, including Priory House, Shefford. You will be expected to attend a CBC office location as often as needed to carry out your role, which will be no less than once per month.

Contract Type: Hybrid – Permanent

Closing Date: 30th August 2026

Interview Date: 7th September 2026 interviews will take place in person at Priory House, Shefford

About the Role:

At Central Bedfordshire Council, we do all we can to ensure that people have safe and healthy homes. We want to make Central Bedfordshire a great place to work and live – and that means tackling poor living conditions and improving the quality of resident’s lives.

As an Environmental Health Officer or Technical Officer within the housing service you will be supporting the continuous improvement of the private housing sector across Central Bedfordshire, you will work within Private Sector Housing, which includes Housing Assistance (grants and loans), housing enforcement and licensing team. The team is ambitious and looking to improve the health and well-being of all residents within Central Bedfordshire. The successful candidate will have a broad and complex caseload and will represent the service in a multidisciplinary team being responsible for undertaking all PSH functions to ensure our residents are living in safe and healthy homes.

Find your greatness by working in a team that focuses on great outcomes for residents.

As the Park Homes Officer, you will have specific responsibilities for:

• Park Home Site Licensing, inspection, and compliance with Site Licence conditions
• Engagement with Park Home residents and owners, Cllrs and other stakeholders
• Regularising Park Home sites which are not licensed or non-compliant, which may include enforcement action and prosecutions
• Grants and Assistance for residents residing in Park Homes
• Any other issues relating to, and occurring on, Park Home Sites

As this is career graded position, you will be provided with a comprehensive training and development package to ensure that you can fully meet all of the requirements of the role. Experience in Park Home Site licensing, or other housing enforcement, public health, HMO licensing experience, and demonstrate you have experience working as a Housing Enforcement Officer is desirable.

To find out more about our service please view our short video: https://youtu.be/EanxIJJn_S0

Our Offer

We have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our Rewards and Benefits page

Our aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer.  We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process.

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You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies in this Recruitment Pack.

Our Competency Framework and Qualification Guidance are to be read in conjunction with our Recruitment Pack.

For an informal discussion about this position, please contact: Rachel Shalan at rachel.shalan@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or call 0300 300 4417.

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Central Bedfordshire Council reserves the right to close this vacancy before the advertised date if a large number of applications are received. If you would like to apply for this position then please keep information in mind when preparing your application.

Safeguarding:

Central Bedfordshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees, volunteers and contractors to share this commitment. This post is subject to the disclosure of criminal records.  

To maintain a fair and consistent approach for applicants, it is Central Bedfordshire Council's policy to only consider applications made via our online application system and we therefore thank you for not submitting your application offline.