Community Enforcement Officer

The Community Safety and Compliance Team has an opportunity for 3 suitably qualified Community Enforcement Officers based in the Environment Enforcement Team. Working in a small team to effectively target anti-social behaviour environmental enforcement across the borough, working in partnership with other agencies and partners and where necessary to represent the Council at court. The successful candidates will be expected to patrol hotspots across the borough investigating incidents of:

• Fly Tipping
• Dog Fouling
• Littering
• Issuing Fixed penalty notices Penalty Charge Notices, as well as Community Protection warnings and notices.
• To assist in the reduction of Anti-Social behaviour under the direction of the Community Safety Groups.
Candidates will be expected to have experience of various legislation including; Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005, Environmental Protection Act 1990, and well as an understanding of Public Space Protection orders, the use of CCTV for enforcement and have proven ability in an Enforcement capacity. Other duties include:
• Analyse CCTV footage and other evidence in order to build an enforcement case.
• Ability to influence, encourage and promote behaviour change
• Attend court to act as a professional witness and give evidence in court.
  
  We are looking for a self-motivated, enthusiastic person with proven track records of enforcement, with good organisational skills. The successful candidate will have good written and oral communications skills and have the ability to develop good working relationships both internally and externally with others in order to achieve positive outcomes.
  
  We offer a range very attractive Employee Benefits and Rewards including
• Generous annual leave of up to 34 days per year
• Hybrid Working (where appropriate)
• Flexible working hours (where appropriate)
• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Access to numerous other salary sacrifice schemes
• Access to our employee health and wellbeing platform, which includes an exciting range of staff benefits, including, spreading the cost of home and electronics, bike shop, car scheme, gym membership, lifestyle savings
• A range of Staff Network groups
For more details: https://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/benefits-and-rewards