Job Description Template - Charnwood



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|Division: |Housing, Planning Regeneration and Regulatory |

|Job Title: |Head of Strategic and Private Sector Housing |

|Grade: |JNC B |

|Post Number: |M189 |

|Base/Location: |Council Building, Southfield Road |

|Responsible To: |Strategic Director for Housing, Planning & Regeneration and Regulatory Services |

|Responsible For: |Strategic and Private Sector Housing Teams |

|Key Relationships/ | |

|Liaison with: |Chief Executive; Cabinet; Scrutiny; Elected Members; Senior Management Team, Corporate |

| |Management Team; service teams; local, regional and national partners and other community |

| |representatives and service users. |

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|Job Purpose |

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|As a Head of Service your conduct at all times will be bounded by legality, the Council’s policies, strategies, constitution, |

|democratic arrangements and the pursuit of equality, efficiency, effectiveness and economy in the design and delivery of services. |

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|Delivery of an effective and appropriate service to all service users, fairly and without discrimination. |

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|Promote the Vision and Values of Charnwood Borough Council and work with members and staff from across the organisation in the best |

|interests of the residents of the borough and the Council. |

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|Be responsible for delivery of services as identified and effectively manage and support teams in providing those services. |

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|Ensure that the delivery of services for which you are responsible are responsive to customer needs, meet performance standards and |

|provide value for money. |

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|Represent and promote the Borough and the Council within the community, county and region, and work with others in the achievement of|

|common goals, in particular in Area and Neighbourhood Forums |

|Main Duties and Responsibilities |

|1. | As a member of the Corporate Management Team support the Council’s transformation process to meet Central Governments |

| |priorities whilst ensuring efficiencies are achieved. |

|2. |Work with the Chief Executive, Senior Management Team, Cabinet, Scrutiny and Elected Members to deliver the services |

| |necessary for the Council to develop and achieve its objectives. |

|3. |Support and contribute to broader corporate delivery initiatives and cross cutting projects and services within the |

| |council as required. |

|4. | Act as the Project Manager for key projects as assigned and be a member of cross/inter-service working parties. |

|5. |Support the Corporate Planning process, and ensure consistency between the Corporate Plan and Service Planning process. |

| |Support the annual budget and cycle, ensuring the delivery of Service Plan objectives, and the robustness of annual and |

| |longer term planning |

|6. |Support Lead Members as assigned in discharging their responsibilities within the Council. |

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| |Support the work of Scrutiny in improving service delivery in the Council. |

|7. |Deputise for the Strategic Director as required. |

|8. |Promote equality of opportunity and diversity in service delivery and employment. |

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| |Ensure the effectiveness of your own performance and, in particular, meeting the obligations of whatever system of |

| |performance appraisal is adopted by the Council. |

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| |Promote new ways of working that support the Council’s commitment to continuous |

| |improvement and modernisation. |

|9. |In addition, this role description recognises the importance of maintaining the Council’s role as the Housing Authority. |

| |Specific duties and responsibilities which also attach to this role include: |

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| |Providing the professional and technical knowledge in relation to all strategic and private sector housing functions |

| |required by the Council |

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| |Advising the Council on all statutory housing requirements and develop policies accordingly |

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| |Managing the capital budgets for private sector housing and ensuring their delivery |

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| |Liaise with the Head of Landlord Servcies on strategic issues and policy development relating to the landlord service. |

| |Represent and promote the Borough and the Council within the community, county and region, and work with others in the |

| |achievement of common goals, in particular in Area and Neighbourhood Forums. |

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| |Represent and promote the Borough and the Council within the community, county and region, and work with others in the |

| |achievement of common goals, in particular in Area and Neighbourhood Forums. |

|Special Factors |

|The nature of the work may involve the jobholder carrying out work outside of normal working hours. The above duties and |

|responsibilities should not be regarded as exclusive or exhaustive as other responsibilities will accrue in line with the development|

|of the Council and local government generally. |

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|Management has the right to vary the duties after consultation with you. |

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|This job description sets out the duties and responsibilities of the job at the time when it was drawn up. Such duties and |

|responsibilities may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the duties or the level of responsibility |

|entailed. Such variations are a common occurrence and cannot in themselves justify a reconsideration of the grading of the job. |

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|Charnwood Borough Council is seeking to promote the employment of disabled people and will make any adjustments considered reasonable|

|to the above duties under the terms of the Equality Act 2010 to accommodate a suitable disabled candidate. |

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|Date Prepared/Revised: November 2014 |

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