Job Description

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PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester. LE3 8RA

Worker Category: Hybrid

Salary: Grade 9 \xc2\xa327,858- \xc2\xa330,078 (pay award pending)

Working Hours: 37 hour per week

Contract Type: Permanent,

Closing Date: 8th September 2023

Interview Date(s): To be agreed

Are you a good communicator that can deal with difficult conversations?

Do you have an interest in the variety of work carried out by Trading Standards?

Do you have enforcement experience in the legislation enforced by Trading Standards?

About the Role

Working as part of a team your work will focus around ensuring businesses are compliant by carrying out inspections, undertaking criminal investigations and leading on intelligence led projects that meet the Council\'s objectives of supporting businesses and protecting residents from harm.

Officers will receive training but will be expected to manage their own workload investigations, inspections or project work. You will be supervised by a Senior Trading Standards Officer but using your own initiative and enforcement experience to progress incidents and carry out necessary enforcement work. This can be providing advice via letters, issuing notices or undertaking a criminal investigation

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

• Education to a NVQ level 4 or equivalent or equivalent experience
• Experience in the regulatory compliance or law enforcement sector
• Experience of providing advice in an enforcement role
• Understand the legal system and the protocols to follow to carry out investigations lawfully and ethically
• Experience of analysing data or interpreting information and research
• Evidence of consistently meeting deadlines and managing workload with minimal supervision and using initiative whilst under pressure.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, the ability to tailor their approach depending on the recipient.
• Enthusiasm and the ability to learn new skills and work in new areas of law that they may not be familiar with.
• Highly motivated with transferable skills to adapt to a trading standards enforcement role
• Flexible approach to work, including working outside of office hours when necessary. A full Driving licence is essential.

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equal opportunities, and the ability to apply this to all situations.

In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual\'s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Karen Retallic

Telephone: 0116 305 6548

Email: Karen.retallic@leics.gov.uk

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the \'About You\' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on \'Apply Now\'. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the \'About You\' section above. For more information, see the section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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About Us:

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a , , , , and organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the . We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.

Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.

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