Senior Licensing Enforcement Officer

Yate, England, United Kingdom

7/10/2025

How You'll Make a Difference

As a Senior Licensing Enforcement Officer, you will help shape and improve the licensing service to ensure it’s consistent and effective across the council. The Licensing Team covers a wide range of licensing functions throughout the local community from alcohol licenses, gambling premises and the licensing of taxi and private hire drivers and vehicles.

What You Will Be Doing

• It will be your responsibility to manage a small team of Licensing Officers, providing support, guidance and development.
• It will be key for you to provide specialist knowledge and advice to colleagues, local business, and members of the community.
• Under the guidance of the Licensing Services Manager, you will undertake frontline operational work including inspections, evidence gathering and preparing prosecution files and witness statements.
• Using your experience and knowledge, you will contribute towards the development of processes, procedures and policies, ensuring a high level of service is maintained.
• You will prepare reports for committees and attend hearings and meetings, including court, where required.
• Occasionally, you will work within the local community outside of office hours.
  
  

What We Need From You

• We require you to have licensing experience and can demonstrate a knowledge of regulations and licensing enforcement.
• You will have experience in leadership, management or mentoring, in a regulatory function.
• You must be able to manage the workload of the team, prioritising and responding to demands to ensure both customer satisfaction and legislative requirements are met.
• It is essential you can communicate effectively and engage with a range of audiences, as at times you may be dealing with challenging situations.
• Given the elements of this role, you need to have the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
  
  

What You Need To Know

• Evening and weekend working is an integral part of the post to ensure compliance in the licensed trades, therefore there is some occasion work outside of the normal office hours.
• You will be expected to travel throughout the authority and surrounding area so you must have a full, valid driving licence with regular access to a vehicle or have an alternative means of travel.
  
  

Interviews will be held on 29th July 2025.

How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different

• We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
• As part of our benefits package you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
  
  

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

• We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
• We're planning for the future; building and improving the roads, railways, schools, green spaces, and houses.
• We’re providing essential services across our communities to ensure they are safe and well maintained.
  
  

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We’re making a difference, be part of it!

To view the full job description, please click this link: Senior Licensing Officer - Job Description