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About the role
- Discharges the County Council’s statutory duties for Highway CON29 Searches and follow up highway enquiries in compliance to key legislation - in particular, the Local Land Charges Act 1975 and the Highways Act 1980.
What will you be doing?
- Assist with the updating of GIS data, with an up-to-date record of legal agreements and orders, ensuring the Council meets its statutory obligations in accordance with the Highways Act 1980 to enable County Council and third-party organisations to carry out their duties.
- Assist with the research and interpretation of complex legal agreements / maps to provide accurate clear and structured responses to CON29 search requests ensuring that potential legal action / compensation claims detrimental to the County Council are minimised.
- Ensure accurate records are created, kept and maintained to ensure that the Council meets its statutory obligations in this regard, thus ensuring that the Council is protected from legal action. A significant amount of the records are kept on the Council’s website and GIS system. The maintaining of these records also ensures compliance with the Council’s best practice policies and procedures, enabling the smooth running of the department and enhancing the Council’s service to the public. The post holder provides support to the Land Search Officer to allow them to carry out their day-to-day duties.
- Assist with the provision of specialist technical/legal advice to professionals (solicitors, conveyancers), other third-party organisations and members of the general public relating to specific search enquiries. Establish when the legal extent of highway is required. Failure to properly advice interested parties can lead to legal action with compensation claims being made against the County Council.
- Produce maps to scale for third parties showing highway search information, including Con29 optional requests (using the GIS system).
- To deputies (where required) for the Land Search Officer. To process and provide responses to Con29 Searches when required.
- Manage financial systems, producing accurate invoices and the tracking of payments to support the effective re-charging and recovery of fees for completed searches and associated enquiries.
- Generate detailed Management Information (service activity, revenue generation and trend analysis) to the Investigation, Searches and Definitive Map Team Leader on a regular basis. This statistical data supports the production of Best Value Performance Indicators in accordance with County Council and national guidelines.
About you
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Our benefits
We offer:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (27 days, rising to 32 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- agile and flexible working arrangements to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
About us
We are a new unitary council, established in April 2021; we are one of the largest unitary councils in the country.
Our priorities are:
- helping people live active fulfilled lives
- caring for our young people, providing them with high quality education and opportunities
- enabling a thriving and successful economy
- leading on a green and sustainable environment
- ensuring our communities are connected do they can shape their lives and where they live
- providing modern public services
We are undertaking consultation with the Trade Unions on terms and conditions and the future NNC pay structure and during this time are appointing new employees on interim spot salaries. You will be advised of the outcome and any impact on your role once this work is complete.
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