Professional Support Officer - Modern Apprentice, Inverness

Job Description

Post Title:    Professional Support Officer - Modern Apprentice
Location:      Inverness/Homeworking                            
Hours:          35 hours per week             
Duration:      Fixed Term (2 years from the start of employee contract)
Salary:          HC01 (£19,747 p.a.) to HC06 (£27,227 - £30,375 p.a.)

Salary placing will normally be at the first point of the scale.

This post may be home or office-based dependant on current Government guidance. Work location will remain under review. This vacancy may be delivered via a hybrid model of home/office working with some office attendance required.

Contact Person:  Susan Macmillan Tel: 01397 707021

Job Purpose: Technical and monitoring support to the Area Planning and Building Standards Teams. The post holder is part of a virtual team who are responsible for processing and validating all planning applications submitted to the council. This entails the plotting of all applications and assessing if all the necessary information has been submitted to allow them to be validated whilst also arranging for all relevant consultees to be consulted. The post holder will with experience develop their own case load and assess and determine householder applications, prior notifications for agricultural buildings and telecommunications apparatus as well as all related development and permitted development enquiries. They will also assist in the delivery of the enforcement function within this area.

Please APPLY ONLINE. If you are unable to apply online and you wish to request an offline application pack, please contact Business Support, T: 01955 608279 (24 hour voicemail) quoting the post reference number above.

Please find the Job Description below.

The Highland Council is an Equal Opportunities employer and is committed to improving the diversity of its workforce. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, representative of the communities we serve. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing within the workplace.

As a disability confident employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria requirements for the post.

Shortlisted applicants will normally be contacted by email, unless otherwise stated.  Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.

Requirements

You will be expected to travel efficiently and effectively between various work locations within Highland to meet the operational requirements of the Service.