Team Manager

Grade: SCP 46-49 - Salary: £54,765.00 - £58,541.00 per annum

Hours: 37 hours per week

We Are St Helens Borough Council

Located at the heart of England’s North West and with a varied mix of cultural and leisure facilities and unique industrial heritage, St Helens offers great opportunities as a place to live and work. St Helens Borough Council plays a key role in the Liverpool City Region and wider area and has an acknowledged reputation for providing excellent planning services.

Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our cultural journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.

Making A Difference as a Team Manager-Development Plans in the Planning & Regeneration Service.

We are dealing with an exciting range of planning challenges, balancing needs for major new development linked to the Council’s growth agenda, against the protection of the Borough’s greenspaces and other environmental assets. We have recently adopted our ambitious new Local Plan.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive Development Plans Manager, with excellent knowledge of Planning policy and legislation, to take forward our work on our SPDs, the preparation of our Bold Forest Garden Village masterplan and other planning policy work.

This is an exciting opportunity for an energetic and motivated individual to drive forward planning policy to support the growth agenda. You will be involved in all aspects of plan-making, working in partnership with officers across the Council and developing effective relationships with different authorities, agencies, and communities in St Helens and beyond.

You will be an experienced and skilled planner with the drive and commitment to lead and deal with the complexities of planning policy. You will be innovative and adept in partnership working and problem-solving and be well equipped to lead the team effectively and collaboratively.

In line with our new ways of working, this role is hybrid and will involve a mix of working from home and working in our agile hub at Atlas House in St Helens Town Centre.

Interested to Find Out More?

To apply, please click the apply button below.

You can review our full job description details, and person specification information via the apply button.

To discuss this exciting role please contact Kieran Birch (Head of Planning) at kieranbirch@sthelens.gov.uk

Closing date: 3 September 2024.

Thank you for your interest in working for us. If you are experiencing issues with applying online, you can contact a member of the team at Recruitment@sthelens.gov.uk and a form will be sent to you to complete.

Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a sufficient number of applications and encourage you to apply early, to avoid disappointment.

Equality & Diversity

St Helens Borough Council respects and values the individuality that every employee brings. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation.

St Helens Council is a Disability Confident Employer. This means that the Council guarantees an interview to disabled applicants who demonstrate that they meet the essential criteria for the job, as detailed on the Person Specification, and will, for qualifying disabled candidates, make reasonable adjustments within the interview/selection process.

All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, and Leadership.