Team: Civil Enforcement

Job Family: CBG6 - Providing
Salary: £20,092 - £21,748 per annum 
Hours: 37 hours per week - alternate early (07:00 – 15:30) and late (10:30-19:00) shifts.

Sunday rest day and a 6 week rolling rest day on Monday - Saturdays

Base Location: Thorn Turn, Houghton Regis

Contract Type: Permanent

Rolling Advert - applications will be reviewed on receipt

More About the Job

Our parking enforcement team aims to provide a high quality of civil enforcement action throughout Central Bedfordshire to aim to ensure the free movement of traffic and rotation of car parking spaces within our Car Parks and on street parking. We endeavour to maximise compliance of our parking restrictions through education and enforcement. By providing local residents, visitors and businesses clear and effective parking solutions we help make sure Central Bedfordshire is a great place to live and work.

You will be responsible for providing an efficient and effective service of parking enforcement in order to minimise vehicles parking in contravention, through the issue of penalty charge notices. You will provide this service in accordance with the council’s objectives and policies. Full training will be given to the successful candidate, this will include on the job training and a level 2 award for parking enforcement officers. You will be required to apply for Standard DBS clearance as part of the Recruitment process and you will need to be able to drive with access to a vehicle.

Using your great communication skills you will be confident in dealing with members of the public, council members and partners while representing the Council in a positive and proactive manner.

Central Bedfordshire Council has its own vision and values that are integral to everything we do. Our area vision is to make Central Bedfordshire 'A great place to live and work’.

For an informal discussion about this position, please contact: Joseph Gorry at joseph.gorry@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or 0300 300 8159

For queries related to the recruitment of this vacancy, please contact: The Recruitment Team at recruitment@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk  

Safeguarding:

Central Bedfordshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees, volunteers and contractors to share this commitment. This post is subject to the disclosure of criminal records.  

Central Bedfordshire Council is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome enquiries from everyone and value diversity in the workplace. We are a Disability Confident employer, we are working to become a Disability Confident leader in our community.

To maintain a fair and consistent approach for applicants, it is Central Bedfordshire Council's policy to only consider applications made via our online application system and we therefore thank you for not submitting your application offline. If you do not have a CV to hand, please look on our website for a CV template that you can use to create your CV to apply for this role. http://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/jobs/work-here/application.aspx