Commercial Waste Enforcement Officer

Job description

Contract Terms

Starting salary: PO1(£38,934 – £40,755)
Hours per week: 36 per week (Shift Work)
Contract type: FTC, until 31st March 2026
Closing date: 5th January 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

The successful applicants will form a deterrent to any businesses in Haringey that does not apply duty of care, have correct documentation and/or present their commercial waste in accordance with law and within Haringey’s time banded collection rules.

This will involve engaging and educating business owners, randomly checking contents of waste bags presented on the street, using surveillance techniques and issuing fixed penalty notices. The role will also take on the enforcement of street trading within the Borough. We welcome applicants who can demonstrate at least two years active experience within the enforcement sector.

About the Team

The Recycling, Waste & Enforcement Team are in the midst of exciting change and development with challenging targets to hit. We are about to enter the commissioning stage for a new collection and street cleansing contract after reviewing all the services we operate. This review has revealed that there remains a level of trade waste being illegally presented, some of which is to the detriment of council tax-payers. These fixed term posts will help us tackle this activity and ensure all trade waste flows via bona fide commercial waste routes.

About You

• At least two years’ relevant experience of investigating and enforcing against waste crime, issuing statutory/fixed penalty notices and supporting court proceedings
• Capable of dealing with confrontational situations and thinking on your feet
• Able to work an 8-week shift pattern that consists of daytime, early and night working

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders. Please continue to check these through the application process. If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk.