Hastings Frontend Vacancies

Parks Development Officer

Thu, 28 May 2026 10:10:00 +0100

Parks Development Officer

Contract: Permanent, Full Time (37 hours per week)

Salary: £32,061 - £37,280 per annum (Grade 6, SCP 19 – 26)

Location: Hastings, East Sussex / Hybrid Working

Make a Difference in Your Community

Hastings Borough Council is looking for an enthusiastic and community‑focused Parks Development Officer to help shape, improve and champion our parks and open spaces alongside the people who use them.

This role is ideal for someone who believes that great parks are created with communities, not just for them. You will work closely with residents, friends groups, volunteers, councillors, charities and partner organisations to ensure our green spaces reflect local needs, encourage wellbeing, and support biodiversity.

Working within the Parks and Open Spaces team, you will lead on the development of parks and green spaces through strong community involvement. You will support engagement activity, deliver improvement projects, and help communities have a real voice in how local spaces are managed and enhanced.

You will be a key link between the Council and communities, ensuring ideas are heard, relationships are built, and projects are delivered in a collaborative, inclusive and transparent way.

For more information, please see the Job Description / Person Specification on our website.

Administration Officer (Planning Policy)

Wed, 27 May 2026 15:24:00 +0100

Administration Officer (Principal Planning)

Salary: £25,583 - £26,824 per annum (pro rata)

Contract: Part-Time (18.5 hours per week), Permanent

Location: Hastings, East Sussex

Join our Planning Policy team and help us deliver a new Local Plan for the Town.

You’ll work alongside Planning Policy Officers, in a varied role where you’ll use a variety of systems to maintain information, maintain high-quality records and support statutory processes and help the team meet deadlines relating to planning policy development.

What you’ll be doing

Working closely with Planning Officers, you’ll take responsibility for ensuring our information systems are accurate. You’ll also help keep our public-facing information clear and up to date.

You’ll also support payments and financial administration. You’ll assist with providing information to external organisations, other council officers and councillors. You’ll be part of a friendly team environment where you’ll also help share knowledge, supporting colleagues and contributing ideas to improve processes and ways of working.

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for someone who is organised, accurate and confident communicating with different audiences, and who can balance competing priorities calmly.

Essential:

We’re looking for someone who enjoys keeping things organised and accurate, and who can stay on top of a workload with changing priorities. You’ll bring a good general standard of education (including GCSE or equivalent English and Maths), strong attention to detail, and confidence communicating clearly in writing and over the phone with a wide range of organisations and colleagues. Ideally, you’ll have experience in an administrative role within a planning or other regulatory setting. You’ll also be confident using Microsoft 365 and learning specialist systems, and you’ll understand the importance of confidentiality and GDPR when managing sensitive information and maintaining reliable records.

Desirable:

If you’ve worked in local authority planning team before that will be an advantage. We’re also equally interested in people who can pick up new processes quickly and enjoy developing their skills in a supportive team environment.

Working pattern

Mixture of office and home working, with flexibility to meet service demands.

For more information, please see the attached Job Description / Person Specification.

If you have any questions, you can call Kerry Culbert (Planning Policy Manager) on 01424 783304 or email (kculbert@hastings.gov.uk).

Closing Date for applications: 18/06/2026 @ 12:00pm

Building Maintenance Surveyor

Mon, 18 May 2026 15:42:00 +0100

Building Maintenance Surveyor

Salary: £32,061 to £37,280 per annum plus Level 3 Benefit Allowance of £2,278.

Grade: Grade 6, SCP 19 – 26

Contract: Full Time (37 hours per week), Permanent

Hastings Borough Council is seeking an experienced and self-motivated Building Maintenance Surveyor to join its Building Surveying Team and make a positive impact on the Council’s property portfolio.

In this role you can enjoy the flexibility of hybrid working, allowing you to work from home or at our seafront Hastings Office, or a combination of both. It should be noted that the position entails travel to our office and throughout the borough for regular site visits and meetings, that on occasion may be at short notice.

Purpose of the Job:

As a Building Surveying Technician with us, you'll play an important role in assisting the Principal Building Surveyor and Building Surveyor in delivering the Council's in-house building surveying function.

Your prime responsibility will be to effectively deliver a range of minor repair and cyclical maintenance activities, along with a variety of other small improvement and alteration works on a broad range of buildings, built assets, and infrastructure in the Council’s diverse non-housing, operational, amenity, commercial and public realm property portfolio.

Examples of Key Responsibilities:

Carry out site inspections, measured surveys, and produce schedules of work and quotation documents for a variety of small maintenance and improvement works on the Council’s property portfolio and other built assets under its annual repairs & renewals programme. Monitor works to completion ensuring they are caried out in accordance with current health and safety regulations within the allocated budget and to the agreed standard and timescales.
Issue works orders for responsive repairs using the Council’s term maintenance contractor’s minor works contract portal. Monitor works to completion ensuring they are within budget and to the agreed standard and timescales.
Manage the council’s bus shelter annual reactive repair and replacement programme, ensuring that it is undertaken within the allocated budget and agreed timescales.
Manage the periodic inspections and electrical circuit testing including certification, and general maintenance and reactive repairs to the Council’s public realm amenities and decorative lighting installations in accordance with statutory regulations.
Manage the council’s street nameplate reactive repair and replacement programme ensuring that it is undertaken within the allocated budget and agreed timescales.

Some Essential Requirements:

ONC or HNC in building construction, building surveying or civil engineering studies or a similar allied subjects at an equivalent level.
Demonstrable experience in property maintenance, improvement, and alteration environment.
Experience in obtaining quotations, job administration and completion of minor repair works projects including negotiation and agreement of final accounts.
Good verbal communication and contract negotiation skills
Current clean full UK Driver’s License and access to own vehicle for business use.

For a full list of responsibilities and a complete person specification please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification document.

Benefits:

27 days Annual Leave (pro-rated for part time staff) rising to 32 days after 5 years’ service, 35 days after 10 years and 37 days after 15 years.
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support your Health & Wellbeing.
E-Learning Development Hub.
A generous local government pension provided by the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
Fully supported Hybrid Working arrangements.
Flexible working scheme to support you in achieving a good work/life balance.

Deadline for Applications: 15th June @ 12:00pm

Interviews will take place in person at our Muriel Matters House Office, TN34 3UY.

Planning Technician and Local Land Charges Officer

Mon, 18 May 2026 12:38:00 +0100

Planning Technician & Local Land Charges Officer

(Planning Services)

Grade: Grade 8 SCP 9 to 17

Salary: £27,254 to £31,022 per annum

Contract: Permanent, Full Time (37 hours per week)

Join our supportive Planning team and help us deliver a reliable, responsive service across Development Management and Local Land Charges.

You’ll work alongside Planning Officers, Enforcement colleagues and partners to keep cases moving, records accurate and information clear for residents, agents, councillors, solicitors and search companies.This is a varied role where you’ll use systems and GIS to process work from start to finish, support statutory timescales and maintain high-quality, auditable records.

What you’ll be doing

This is a varied, customer-facing role that sits at the heart of how we process planning work and provide trusted land charges information. Working closely with Planning Officers, Enforcement colleagues and partner organisations, you’ll take responsibility for progressing a busy caseload through our systems, ensuring information is accurate, complete and handled appropriately. You’ll use GIS and spatial data to support checks and plotting, maintain robust electronic records, and help keep our public-facing information clear and compliant.

A significant part of the role involves coordinating and issuing Local Land Charges searches (including CON29 and EIR), from setting up cases and capturing responses through to producing results within required timescales, as well as maintaining the Local Land Charges Register and completing registrations with HM Land Registry. You’ll also support related payments and financial administration, including recording receipts, resolving fee queries and processing refunds in line with corporate procedures. Throughout, you’ll provide helpful guidance to residents, agents, solicitors/search companies, councillors and colleagues, explaining processes and likely timescales in a clear and professional way. You’ll be part of a friendly team environment where you’ll also help share knowledge—supporting new colleagues and contributing ideas to improve processes and ways of working.

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for someone who is organised, accurate and confident communicating with different audiences, and who can balance competing priorities calmly.

Essential:

We’re looking for someone who enjoys keeping things organised and accurate, and who can stay on top of a busy workload with changing priorities. You’ll bring a good general standard of education (including GCSE or equivalent English and Maths), strong attention to detail, and confidence communicating clearly in writing and over the phone with a wide range of customers and colleagues. Ideally, you’ll have experience in an administrative or technical role within a planning, land charges, property, legal or other regulatory setting, and you’ll be comfortable handling a high volume of casework to deadlines while using your judgement to spot issues and solve problems. You’ll also be confident using Microsoft 365 and learning specialist systems, and you’ll understand the importance of confidentiality and GDPR when managing sensitive information and maintaining reliable records.

Desirable:

If you’ve worked in a local authority planning or land charges team before, that would be a real advantage, particularly if you’ve used systems such as Acolaid (or similar), corporate GIS tools, gazetteer/LLPG systems or HM Land Registry portals. Knowledge of local land charges rules and processes, experience with redaction of planning representations, or familiarity with planning fees and income coding would also be helpful — but we’re equally interested in people who can pick up new processes quickly and enjoy developing their skills in a supportive team environment

Working pattern

Mixture of office and home working, with flexibility to meet service demands.

For more information, please see the attached Job Description / Person Specification.

Administration Officer (Service Support)

Fri, 01 May 2026 11:52:00 +0100

Administration Officer (Service Support)

Salary: £25,583 - £26,824 per annum (pro-rata) (Grade 10, SCP 5 – 8)

Contract: Permanent, Part-Time (18.5 hours per week)

Location: Hastings, East Sussex / Hybrid Working

The successful applicant will be part of an administrative team supporting the Environmental Health, Licensing and Warden Teams to support the statutory duties of the Council.

This position is offered on a job-share basis, provisionally covering Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, with some flexibility in working arrangements. The role requires strong communication skills to ensure clear updates on progress and effective handovers between colleagues.

The ideal candidate will be educated to GCSE level or equivalent. Experience of working in an administrative role, specifically customer service and working with databases, strong IT skills and good working knowledge of Microsoft packages including Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams are essential.

We are looking for someone who is interested in the work of Environmental Health, Licensing and Warden Services, who wants to embrace new technologies and who can use these to improve the administrative support to the services.

Why Join Us?

At Hastings Borough Council, we offer a supportive and collaborative work environment where you will have opportunities for professional development.

Our benefits include:

Local Government Pension Scheme
Cycle to Work scheme
Flexible working arrangements
Employee Discount Scheme
Seafront office location with hybrid working options

Further details and requirements for the role can be found in the job description/person specification.