Interim Environmental Quality Officer – Air Quality Job Ref: K&C 5247802 Pay Rate: £22.36 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 36 Monday to Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 2-3 months City: Kensington, London Hybrid working - 3 days on site The purpose of the role is to contribute to the Council’s ambition to be Greener by managing and improving air quality, both directly and through collaboration with teams across the Council. This involves mitigating and reducing the impact air pollution has on our health and the environment by reviewing planning applications and their air quality assessments to ensure the site is air quality neutral or positive. You will also assist to deliver the smooth running of the Council’s air quality monitoring network and feed into the implementation of the Council’s Air Quality Action Plan. You will also lead on specific projects within this subject area. Key Responsibilities:
* Maintain up-to-date knowledge of air, water and land pollution to uphold competencies, skills and awareness of current best practice.
* Work across all aspects of the team’s work in relation to monitoring and improving air quality and assist with overseeing implementation of the Council’s Air Quality Action Plan.
* Deal with the review of planning applications, processing of applications (for example for Part B processes), notifications, Environmental Permits, referrals, consultations or schemes, carry out reviews and give approval, as directed using any powers that have been delegated in line with the grade and post.
* Work in accordance with legislation, codes of practice, Council policies, procedures, protocols, guidance and good professional practice.
* Ensure all records and data are properly handled to ensure that confidentiality, continuity, evidence integrity, data quality, data protection and requests for information requirements are observed. Recommend any changes to relevant policies or procedures to the Team Manager as appropriate.
* Contribute to the development of the Service Plan and individual team plans and deliver services to residents and businesses as directed by those.
* Deal with the preparation, interpretation and presentation of clear, accurate and timely reports, documents, schedules of work, spreadsheets, data analysis.
* Provide a high level of customer care and quality, sound, timely and accurate professional advice, guidance and information about any work matter, to residents and other customers or colleagues and Members of the Council, treating them with respect and responding appropriately and sensitively to diverse cultural and social needs/expectations.
* Maintain records of activities undertaken in accordance with service requirements, statutory notices, inputting and maintaining information held on databases used by the Service.
* Represent the Service at meetings with both internal and external partnerships, work with a range of stakeholders including environmental consultants, other local authorities and key organisations and residents to ensure we are meeting their needs. Promote partnership working to achieve Service objectives.
* Undertake consistent, proportionate, targeted, accountable and transparent action, in accordance with best practice advice and guidance and policies, to resolve any identified non-compliances.
* Develop, implement, and enforce environmental and air quality related policies, using specialist technical skills and knowledge to protect residents, public and businesses.
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
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