Job Description:
📍Location: Ealing (Hybrid / Office‑based - up to 5 days per week, workload dependent)
📄Contract: 3 months (🔁 strong likelihood of extension)
🚀Start Date: ASAP
🗓 Interviews: ASAP
💷 Pay Rates
- £20.96 per hour (PAYE)
- £27.33 per hour (Umbrella)
🧭 About the Role
Ealing Council is seeking an experienced Parking Appeals & Processing Officer to support the Business Processing Manager in delivering a high‑performing parking administration service.
This is a hands‑on, legislation‑driven role focused on parking appeals, statutory compliance, complex customer correspondence, and professional representation at London Tribunals.
✅ Post subject to safer recruitment practices - DBS required.
🔑 Key Responsibilities
- 🎯 Prepare and present appeal cases to London Tribunals, including evidence collation and attendance at hearings
- 📝 Assess and respond to PCN representations, applying discretion in line with legislation and Council policy
- 💻 Update PCN and permit cases on parking systems; produce accurate Excel‑based reports and statistics
- 📞 Handle PCN and permit enquiries by phone, email and post, including complaints and MP / Member enquiries
- 🏙 Support special projects such as Controlled Parking Zones and website content updates
- 📚 Stay up to date with parking legislation and embed changes into daily practice
- 👥 Assist with training and induction of new team members
- 🤝 Liaise with internal and external stakeholders: London Tribunals, DVLA, Police, bailiffs & Legal Services
- 💳 Process non‑automated permits, refunds, cancellations and debt registrations
- 🧠 Manage challenging and confrontational situations with professionalism and empathy
- ⏰ Work flexibly, including evenings, weekends and across borough sites when required
📊 Key Performance Indicators
- ✅ High first‑contact resolution for PCN & permit enquiries
- ⏱ Consistent achievement of statutory deadlines and SLAs
- ⚖ Strong outcomes and quality in appeal submissions
- 🔁 Reduction in repeat correspondence
- 😊 Customer complaints resolved within agreed timescales
✅ Essential Experience, Skills & Knowledge
(All criteria must be addressed in application)
- Solid working knowledge of parking legislation, codes of practice and council policies
- Proven experience preparing appeal submissions for London Tribunals or Court
- Strong background responding to complex written correspondence and complaints
- Confident representing the Council at appeal hearings
- Excellent IT skills: MS Word, Excel and parking administration systems
- Ability to prioritise workloads and perform under pressure
- Experience handling difficult or confrontational customers
- Strong research, reporting and analytical skills
- Clear, fair and professional written and verbal communication
- Understanding of Equal Opportunities, public‑sector values and customer service standards
- Full professional fluency in spoken and written English
🎓 Essential Qualifications
- Prior experience within Parking Services (ideally large, multi‑functional organisations)
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- GCSE English & Maths (Grades A-C or equivalent)
⭐ Desirable Experience
- Responding to PCN‑related emails and escalated complaints
- Hands‑on processing of PCN representations
- Excellent attendance and timekeeping
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