Team Leader WCC620210

Job Details:

Salary range: £54,684 - £67,500 per annum.

Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP 

Hours per week: 36

Contract type: Permanent   

Closing date: 02 April 2025

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF MATT’S IMPACT ON HOUSING CONDITIONS

Public Protection & Licensing in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories—where people are passionate about making a real difference in residents’ lives.

Take Matt, a Team Leader in the Private Sector Housing team. His journey started as an Environmental Health Officer, but his drive and dedication saw him rise to lead a team focused on improving housing conditions across the city.

No two days are the same for Matt. He leads his team in responding to complaints from tenants facing unsafe living conditions, ensuring that issues like damp, mould, and cold homes are tackled effectively. He also plays a crucial role in bringing empty properties back into use and supporting vulnerable residents.

Beyond his day-to-day work, Matt is shaping the future of the profession. Leading a recruitment campaign to bring in the next generation of Environmental Health Officers, ensuring that Westminster continues to have the expertise needed to drive change in the housing sector.
Matt’s leadership isn’t just about enforcement; it’s about problem-solving, collaboration, and making a lasting impact. Whether he’s guiding his team, working with landlords to improve housing standards, or supporting tenants in need, his focus is always on creating safer, healthier homes for all.

The Role:

As a Private Sector Housing Team Leader, you can make your own powerful contribution by tackling poor housing conditions and ensuring landlords are accountable for delivering homes that are fit for purpose. 

At the heart of this challenge is the need to enforce stringent housing standards in order to ensure a great quality of life for Westminster’s residents who are living in privately-rented homes. Leading and nurturing our ambitious team, you will therefore see to it that the team have the skills, confidence and resources they need to excel in their work – and you will lead by example as you get to grips with landlords who don’t share your commitment to health, safety and high-quality living standards. 

Every day will present you with a myriad of challenges, but your remit will take you from shaping innovative housing strategies and influencing policy decisions, through to the hands-on work of tackling a broad array of properties in varying conditions, protecting tenants and building relationships with landlords. Ultimately, we want landlords to adhere to your high expectations, so you will guide your team of housing professionals in tackling Westminster’s complex housing challenges, using a combination of expert knowledge and impressive influencing skills to raise housing standards. This will include sharing your knowledge of evolving legislation and taking the lead in difficult negotiations, and you will steer a range of projects and programmes focused on delivering change. 

This is an exceptional opportunity to make a tangible impact on the wellbeing of Westminster’s residents – all with the support of a dynamic team who are passionate about their work. As such, we reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants – so we’d encourage you to apply as soon as possible. 

Read more about the role and the benefits we offer.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

This is an exciting chance to take your career to the next level in one of the most iconic and diverse boroughs in London. You will be an inspirational leader with great verbal and written communication skills, who knows how to get the most out of a high-performing team.

An established professional with a knack for leading people and managing resources, you’ll be passionate about Environmental Health and improving outcomes for communities.

Whether you are looking for a new challenge in your career or returning to the profession we have a place for you.  

You’ll be capable of managing operationally important projects, and of inspiring, motivating and developing a diverse team of professionals. With a background in Environmental Health or Private Sector Housing, advanced relationship management and influencing skills, and the ability to build effective working relationships with colleagues at all levels of the council and beyond, you’ll be a confident and assured leader to your team.

This is a fantastic opportunity to expand your expertise in a local authority that meets the challenge of managing environmental health issues across some of the busiest, most diverse and vibrant districts of London.

We can also offer you plenty of development opportunities so you’ll be keen to learn, and you will relish the opportunity to bring your boldest ideas to life. 

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.

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority ( GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' ( formally known as B.A.M.E , Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants,  we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

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.