Community Highways Officer

We are looking for a new Community Highways Officer to join our Highways Service.

The Community Highways Officer sits within the Highways Operations Team and is responsible for a wide range of services that include highways inspections, dealing with enquiries from the public, carrying out enforcement on skips, scaffolds, hedges and private trees alongside the highway along with giving recommendations for local drainage improvements within their own given area.

The Community Highways Team comprises of four area teams that are led by Four Community Highways Team Leaders,

What you can expect to be doing:

Based in one of the local highways depots nestled within the beautiful Dorset countryside this role provides an exciting opportunity to contribute towards creating a greater place to live, work and visit and also helping towards maintaining a safe and effective highways network

You will work collaboratively with your community highways colleagues assisting other community teams where required to ensure tight time scales are met.

Dorset Council offers a wide range of training and support and are embracing a hybrid working culture that allows a mix of home and office working. Occasionally you may be required to attend meetings out of hours either in person or online.

For further details or an informal discussion about this vacancy, please contact Roland Skeats Community Highways Team Leader on 01963 365927 or via email to: [email protected].

About you:

Educated to HNC/HND level is desirable but not essential, you should have experience in Local Government processes and stakeholder engagement. You should have a good working knowledge with a range of soft where applications such as Confirm(data collection tool), emails, spread sheets etc.  along with the use of computers and tablets where appropriate. You should have good communication skills written and verbal and be able to do stand-up presentations to groups of Parish and Town Council representatives.

We’re passionate about making Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Working for us should be no exception.

At Dorset Council we:

• provide more than 450 services to over 300,000 residents
• have ambitious aspirations
• are excited about our future
• care about Dorset and all the people who live here
• know that all roles make a difference and that our employees are key to our success

You will:

• have access to a range of employee benefits 
• be part of an organisation that supports each other to grow and succeed
• have access to range of training opportunities which will help with your personal development and career progression

We are challenging ourselves to become a more diverse and inclusive organisation.

We recognise that recruitment and inclusion of individuals with diverse skills, perspectives and backgrounds will bring real strength to the council and our communities. We have a commitment to equality and welcome applications from everyone.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We offer an interview to everyone who declares a disability and meets the essential criteria for the role.

We are keen to make our interviews accessible. Let us know on your job application if you have a disability and need any reasonable adjustments.

We also look for applicants who share our commitment to our behaviours. We will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

If appointed, the personal information we collect from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found at https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn.

This role is UK based and we will need to establish your Right to Work as part of the appointment process.

We use generic job descriptions and person specifications. This means the job title on any attachments may differ from the job title in the advert. We may provide specific information in a context statement if relevant.

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