Licensing Admin Officer
Team: PPR - Licensing
Job Family: Providing - CBG 5-8 (career graded)
Salary: £24,790 – £32,801 per annum pro rata
Hours: 37 hours per week.
Location: Working from home and any CBC offices, including Thorn Turn, Houghton Regis and Priory House, Shefford. You will be expected to attend a CBC office location on a monthly basis, and as needed to carry out your role. Initially, you'll need to attend the office more frequently for training purposes.
Contract Type: Hybrid - Permanent
Closing Date: 12th May 2025
Interview Date: 20th May 2025
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and motivated person to take up a permanent post within our busy Licensing Team. The Licensing Admin Officer will process applications for licences issued under The Licensing Act 2003, The Gambling Act 2005, The Local Government Miscellaneous Provisions Act 1976 and The Town and Police Clauses Act 1847. As well as applications for many other types of licence.
This is an exciting opportunity to develop your skills and experience whilst helping to deliver services that make a difference to people living and working in our district during the most challenging times.
Join us, and take advantage of our rewards package, agile working and the chance to learn and progress. Find your greatness by helping us to deliver better services to the local community.
You’ll need to be able to prioritise your own workload, take ownership of issues to resolve them, and work well under pressure. Excellent customer service skills will be required, along with great attention to detail. The Licensing Team deal with many different types of applications, including taxi licences, pub and restaurant licences, temporary events, betting shops and street traders, amongst others. Each day will be varied, and you’ll need to be able to adapt to the demand of the service.
An understanding of the legislations mentioned above would be helpful but not essential as full training will be provided. Experience in an administration role would also be advantageous. The salary offered will depend on an applicant's licensing experience. Those with no previous experience working in Licensing will start at the bottom grade. The Licensing Admin Officer role offers an opportunity to move up through the salary grades as experience is gained, using our competency framework.
Join us, and take advantage of our rewards package, agile working and the chance to learn and progress. Find your greatness by helping us to deliver better services to the local community.
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: Nicola O’Donnell at nicola.odonnell@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or call 0300 300 4091.
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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.
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