Carrington West are assisting their local authority client based in Essex in the search for a Planning Officer to join their Development Management team on an initial 9 month contract basis. This post involves managing a caseload of Householder and Minor applications (e.g. 5 dwellings, prior approvals, small to medium scale commercial development, householder applications and pre-application enquiries). Key Accountabilities: To contribute towards the delivery a high quality, customer focused Planning & Implementation department with high standards of advice and support, resolving cases of varying complexities in Development Management. Ensure compliance with statutory regulations, legislation, professional codes of practice and adherence to Council policy. Deliver projects, interventions and initiatives and develop policies in line with corporate and business plans. To deal effectively and efficiently with general enquiries, pre-applications, planning applications and planning appeals ensuring cases are managed and completed at the appropriate level of skillset. Ensure and develop appropriate levels of quality and specialist knowledge with other Planning & Implementation colleagues. Our ideal candidate should have 2 years' experience of dealing with planning applications and is confident with pick up an existing workload with ease. You should have excellent report writing skills and must be confident and professional when dealing with Members, the public and other service users. It would be beneficial to hold a RTPI accredited Planning Degree or equivalent Planning qualification and/or have experience in a similar position. Our client is looking for someone to start almost immediately and is available to interview at short notice. Carrington West Pay Rate - £40per/hour Job Ref - 63998 Please call Cameron de Wit on 02393 876014 for a confidential discussion on this role, or email myself or our planning team if you are short of time to chat: cameron.dewit@carringtonwest.com planning@carringtonwest.com Carrington West's dedicated Town Planning Recruitment Team supply clients UK wide on both a permanent and contract basis and all levels of seniority. If this role is too senior, too junior or in a location that is unsuitable, but you are keen on options, please still feel free to apply and we can discuss other, often unadvertised roles with you.