Senior Housing Enforcement Officer

• East Suffolk Council -

  East Suffolk House Melton Woodbridge IP12 1RT and Riverside Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0EQ

• Salary: 49282 - 53460 (Band 9) (Job evaluation pending)
• Hours: 37 hours per week
• Contract: Permanent

This advert is open to current East Suffolk Council staff only.

East Suffolk Council is an exciting place to work delivering essential local services and making a real difference to a quarter of a million people across East Suffolk.

We currently have an opportunity to join East Suffolk Councils Private Sector Housing teamas a Senior Housing Enforcement Officer.

The role:

As a Senior Housing Enforcement Officer youll play a vital role in helping East Suffolk remain a safe healthy and thriving place to live. This is your opportunity to make a real difference to our communities by improving housing standards and ensuring residents have homes they can feel secure in.

You will lead on complex investigations into substandard housing and HMOs using a wide range of housing legislation to support landlords in meeting their responsibilities and taking firm action where needed. Your work will include preparing and issuing legal notices managing enforcement activity and presenting evidence in formal settings.

Collaboration is at the heart of what we do. Youll work closely with local residents landlords partner organisations and teams across the council to promote safe well managed housing. Youll also help East Suffolk stay ahead of evolving legislation including taking ownership of implementing the new powers introduced through the Renters Rights Act 2025.

This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to major projects and strategic initiatives that will shape the future of housing in East Suffolk. If youre passionate about improving living conditions enjoy working with people and want to be part of a supportive forwardthinking council wed love to hear from you.

What you will need:

As a senior member of the service you will provide expert guidance and help shape best practice by developing protocols sharing knowledge and supporting the training and development of colleagues. Youll also take on management responsibility for a small team of enforcement and compliance officers helping them grow and ensuring cases progress effectively.

You will have a degree in Environmental Health (or equivalent) and at least five years of experience delivering advanced enforcement work within a local authority setting. You will have undertaken the HHSRS Practitioners course and be current and competent in PACE RIPA CPIA and the National File Standard.

If you think you have what it takes to be successful in this role even if you dont meet all of the essential requirements please apply. We would appreciate the opportunity to consider your application.

Why work for us

East Suffolk Council is a great place to work and there are lots of benefits our employees can access. To find out more about why we are so proud of East Suffolk Counciltake a look at our video and hear why our employees think it is such a great place to work (YouTube).

Here are some of the main benefits:

• Generous leave entitlement (equivalent to 25 days a year increasing to 31 days after 5 years service plus bank holidays)

• Local government pension scheme

• Flexible working arrangements

• Learning and development tailored to your role

• A wide variety of staff support networks including access to health and wellbeing initiatives and programmes.

• Discounts on mobile phones computers holiday and travel fashion and clothing health and beauty and many other products and services.
  

Find more information about what we offer in ourbenefits brochure (pdf).

To find out more

For an informal discussion regarding this post please contact Victoria Cotterill on or by emailing

Closing date: 24 April 2026 at 1:00pm.

Interview date: w/c Tuesday 05 May 2026.

How to apply

Step 1 -Read the advert and the Job Description and Person Specification.

Step 2 -Complete theSupporting Statement template (docx). Your statement needs to indicate how you meet each of the criteria contained within the Person Specification. Please use the template provided (other formats will not be accepted).

Step 3 -Complete the online application and upload your statement. Please note CVs are not accepted.

For more information check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site (URL).