Environmental Health Team Leader

Overview

We are seeking a Residential Environmental Health Team Leader to lead and develop a newly formed team to support enforcement duties introduced under the Renters Rights Act 2025.

You will manage a professional team enforcing landlord legislation including housing law and standards, tenancy matters and HMO licensing requirements. This will include the issuing of Civil Penalty Notices or undertaking prosecutions for relevant breaches or offences.

This is a key leadership role with responsibility for service quality, staff development, and contributing to wider corporate objectives.

About us

This is a new role within the Residential environmental Health team, leading a newly formed team of Housing and Tenancy Enforcement Officers enforcing landlord legislation. The team will work alongside other Environmental Health and Housing Enforcement Officers , supporting their work to drive up housing standards and to improve health outcomes for tenants.

About the role

• Lead, manage, and develop a team of Housing and Tenancy Enforcement officers enforcing landlord legislation under the Renters Right Act
• Ensure effective investigation and resolution of complex and high‑risk cases to enforce landlord legislation including the issuing of CPNs and undertaking prosecutions in line with policy
• Drive service improvement, performance management, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Provide expert technical advice to senior management, elected members, partners, and external stakeholders
• Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, guidance, and best practice

About you

You will be a confident leader with strong technical knowledge and a commitment to high‑quality regulatory services.

You will bring:

• A degree level qualification
• Significant experience in residential environmental health and housing regulation and the principles of evidence gathering to support cases
• Expert knowledge and understanding of the legislation, regulations, systems, policies, procedures professional guidelines, best practice and emerging developments within the scope of the housing area.
• Proven people‑management experience, including performance management and staff development
• Excellent decision‑making, communication, and problem‑solving skills
• The ability to manage complex workloads and competing priorities
• Experience of partnership working and stakeholder engagement

Other information

Please see the attached job summary for further information on this role and person specification.

Number of positions available: 1

Closing date:17^th May 2026

Interview date:w/b 25^th May 2026

Interview-type -In person

If you would like to have an informal conversation with the recruiting manager, please contact: [email protected]

This post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent cautions and/or unspent convictions

For further information on how long it takes for cautions and convictions cautions to become spent, please refer to our guide on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (updated 2023) | Nacro

We understand that candidates may use AI tools to assist with their applications. While we welcome innovation, we expect all submissions to reflect your own experience, skills, and achievements accurately. Please ensure your application is truthful and demonstrates your personal capabilities, as this will be assessed during the selection process.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.

Our values and culture

We have a set of values, which our employees have chosen, that represent what we are – Proud, Ambitious, Collaborative and Trustworthy.

By joining Buckinghamshire Council, you can expect:

• a fair and inclusive culture
• the chance to really make a difference to those around you
• health and well-being initiatives including an Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and mindfulness workshops
• a unified voice through our Employee Representative Group
• ongoing support, and the opportunity to develop and progress in your career with us
• opportunities to take part in fun activities such as fundraising and social events

At Buckinghamshire Council, we know that our biggest strength comes from the people that work for us, and that’s why we’re working hard to ensure we continue to be an accessible and inclusive organisation.

From dedicated staff networks overseen by our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Steering Group, to proudly standing as a Disability Confident employer, it’s important to us that all our colleagues feel engaged, listened to, and valued. Our offer of flexible working empowers a productive and happy workforce and allows employees to combine work with other responsibilities and commitments.

We believe our workforce should reflect the diverse communities we service in Buckinghamshire, and are looking for like-minded individuals to join us in promoting equality, fairness, and inclusion for everyone.

About the Business Unit

Our Communities directorate works across the county to deliver a number of the key customer-facing services that our residents, businesses and visitors rely on every day. 

This directorate includes a wide range of services, including:

• collecting and disposing of waste and recycling
• maintaining our roads and Rights of Way network and parking
• ensuring the delivery of school transport, and supporting sustainable travel including public bus services and School Crossing Patrollers
• managing Country Parks
• leisure facilities, museums, theatres and libraries, as well as developing our Cultural Strategy
• Licensing, Environmental Health and Trading Standards
• Cemeteries and Crematoria

The customer is central to how we develop and deliver all of these services, which help promote our rich and vibrant culture and special environment. 

We are looking for enthusiastic, ambitious and committed individuals to join our team and help us to continue to make Buckinghamshire a great place to live, work and visit. This is an exciting time for us as we bring together the services previously run by five separate councils before Buckinghamshire Council was created. Whilst making major changes to contracts affecting residents across Bucks, we continue to focus on delivering great customer service. You will join us on our journey of continuous improvement - whether that’s through developing strategies and ways of working or delivering services on the ground, every person in Communities is a valued member of the team.

We recognise and reward you

Hard work and success deserves recognition. That’s why we pride ourselves on the benefits we give our people. We actively encourage a good work-life balance and promote flexible and agile working arrangements. We provide discounts on various Cafés, restaurants, shops and auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme. In addition to the opportunity to gain membership to Costco, we have discounted gym memberships, travel discounts with Arriva and much more.

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