Team Leader Selective Licensing

Temporarily funded until 20^th July 2027

The is an exciting opportunity to join our busy and dedicated Private Sector Housing Team.  We are a relatively large team delivering a wide range of services that integrate public and private sector partners, creating a bottom-up approach to supporting neighbourhoods offering real help where it is needed through the empty homes programme, an innovative home improvement agency, landlord enforcement, selective and HMO licensing, the Good Landlord and Agent Accreditation scheme and energy efficiency improvements.

In this role you will focus on implementing transformational change to the private rented sector across the Borough.  You will work alongside another Selective Licensing Team Leader to lead and develop a team of Officers to deliver a wide range of initiatives including:

• The Licensing of properties covered under Part 3 of the Housing act 2004.
• Delivering and enforcing licence conditions along with failure to obtain licences.
• Tenancy relations dealing with illegal eviction and harassment.
• Partnership working with internal and external agencies to improve the standard of private rented properties.
• Educating and advising Landlords and Managing Agents through the Good Landlord and Agent Scheme.
• Budget monitoring for the scheme.

The common theme throughout these activities is to drive up standards of management and improve conditions to benefit the health, safety and welfare of residents living in private rented properties in Burnley.

The team operates from the Town Hall combined with home working.

It is essential you have experience of working in a housing or a housing-related field including preparing prosecutions and other enforcement sanctions.  It is also essential you have experience of programme and project management as well as experience of managing and developing a team.

You must have the ability to communicate effectively as well as the ability to develop policies and give advice in regard to new initiatives which will improve the health, safety and wellbeing of residents.

If you meet the essential criteria and feel you have the passion and desire to work with us, we would love to hear from you.

For an informal discussion on the content of the job descriptions or person specification, please contact, Ian Frankland, Private Sector Housing Manager, on 01282 475914.