Salary: £37,280 - £38,862
Location: Council House/Hybrid Working
Hours: 37 hours a week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Sunday 28th June 2026
The introduction of the Renters’ Rights Act has opened up a fantastic opportunity for the Private Rented Sector Team here at Derby City Council to expand and welcome new staff.
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Housing Standards Officer to join our team and help improve housing conditions across the community. This is an excellent opportunity for someone passionate about housing, public health, and enforcement to make a real impact by ensuring properties meet required legal and safety standards.
If you are motivated by making a real difference, put residents at the heart of all you do and want a key role in improving housing conditions and community wellbeing, we would love to hear from you.
The Opportunity
In the role of Housing Standards Officer, here’s an example of what you’ll be doing to make an impact:
- Inspect dwellings and enforce statutory provisions to ensure compliance with the authorities’ statutory obligations, and provide guidance, information, and training to landlords to aid their compliance.
- Prepare, monitor and authorise legal and other documentation, and to instigate legal proceedings to ensure compliance with the authorities’ statutory obligations
- To keep up to date with relevant legislation, standards, guidance, and other information to develop any appropriate specialist knowledge of relevant subject areas to ensure compliance with the statutory requirements.
- To attend and contribute to meetings, committees, public enquiries, tribunals, and court hearings in a technical, expert, or advisory capacity.
About You
To be successful in this role, you’ll ideally have...
- Have a good knowledge of deficiencies and hazards and housing and understanding of the enforcement options.
- Experience of dealing with members of the general public, tenants of private rented sector (PRS) accommodation and landlords of PRS accommodation.
- Possession of a CIEH approved Higher Certificate in Housing Practice/Diploma in Housing Regulation or; a BTech in Environmental Health or Level 4 Apprenticeship in Regulatory Compliance (Housing) or be working towards a qualification.
- Possession of a certificate of training in the Housing Health and Safety Rating System – HHSRS.
- Educated to A Level or equivalent
Who We Are
Here at Derby City Council, we're dedicated to delivering nearly 250 first-class services to citizens and businesses in the heart of the Midlands. People are at the centre of all that we do, and we have an outstanding track record of recruiting and developing talented individuals by providing them with varied and fulfilling career opportunities. Find out more about what it's like to work for us .
What We Offer
You too could be part of something brilliant by becoming a colleague at Derby City Council; in addition to making a difference to the lives of people across the city, you'll also receive:
- Flexible work/life balance scheme (depending on your role)
- Hybrid working (depending on your role)
- Modern office environment (depending on your job location)
- Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations
- 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years' service), plus bank holidays (depending on contract)
- Local Government Pension Scheme (depending on contract)
- Team Derby Rewards - retail and leisure discounts
- Tusker Car Benefit Scheme
- Cycle2Work Scheme & free cycle training
- Employee Assistance Programmes & Support
- Access to our Equality Employee Networks - LGBTQ+, Disabled Employee Network & Carers and our Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Employee Support Network
- Support for colleagues who are carers
Next Steps
If you would like to apply for this vacancy, please submit an application via the Derby City Council website.
The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on Sunday 28 June 2026 . Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.
Interviews will be held: on Friday 10 July 2026 in person at The Council House.
If you would prefer to apply for this job using your CV, then please download the attached Declaration Form and send it to
[email protected]. Without a completed declaration form, your application will not be accepted. We also encourage you to download the Equalities Form and return this to
[email protected]however this is optional and will not affect your application.
Important Information
Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below.
All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job.
Before you complete your application form please read our guidance on filling in your application form.
Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification.
Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.
We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.
Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we’ll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality.
If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01332 640844 (Relay UK - 18001 01332 640 844) or at
[email protected]https://www.derby.gov.uk/signing-service/
