Building Control Support Officer WCC620607

Job Details:

Salary range: £33,291 - £42,861 per annum 
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP 
Hours per week: 36 
Contract type: Permanent  
Closing date: 11 May 2025

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF SERENA’S VISION 

Growth, Planning and Housing in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where innovative and open-minded people bring everything to the cause. Even expertise from surprising places. 

Take Serena. She is an absolute force of nature at the heart of our Church Street regeneration. And she puts the residents first in everything. Serena’s vision is clear. Regeneration isn’t just about bricks and concrete. It’s about communities. It’s about the environment. It’s about the lives of people and how they feel about where they call home. Serena is their advocate, making sure residents’ voices aren’t just heard, but drive the changes we’re making. The future is safe in her hands. 

Please view the extraordinary story of Serena’s Vision here.

The Role:

As a Building Control Support Officer, you can make your own powerful contribution to people across Westminster. Responsible for registering and processing all types of business control applications on time and to protocol, you’ll ensure the effective organisation and indexing of both hard copy and electronic applications in our Document Management System. 

You’ll maintain accurate and timely case records, ensuring the correct fees have been paid for applications, and that customers enquires are handled quickly and efficiently. Acting as a source of support to your colleagues, and guidance to our customers, you’ll share your knowledge and expertise with those around you.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information. 

About You:

An established professional with experience of working in a building control environment, you’ll have a relevant qualification in building studies or a related subject. You may have worked with computerised record keeping, ideally including a document management system, and will have actioned financial transactions in a previous role. Having interacted with project design teams to assist surveyors, you’ll have great interpersonal and communication skills.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a vibrant and dynamic team, and to supercharge your career in the process.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role. 

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.   
 
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit  https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties  
 
As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.  
 
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.