Thank you for showing an interest in working for Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council.

At Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council, we have a workforce of around 450 committed staff, delivering services to our customers – whether they are residents, business, partners, councillors or other stakeholders.

We are an employer of choice and offer a wide range of roles, at all levels. From housing, planning, legal, surveying, accounting and digital roles to refuse collectors and gardeners, we want to recruit, develop and retain highly skilled people who are committed, capable and strive to achieve the best outcomes for the borough and its residents.

Staff who have recently joined us from the public and private sectors have said at inductions that we are a ‘friendly’, ‘supportive’, ‘helpful’ and a ‘happy’ organisation.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Bill Cullen, Chief Executive

Led by the Chief Executive, Bill Cullen, and councillors, the council is structured into two key service areas:

• Community and Development Services
• Corporate and Streetscene Services

There are a variety of careers available at the Council and the Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council Career Guide aims to provide an overview of the type of work you could become involved in and the directions your career could go in through working for the council.

If you are interested in apprenticeships or work experience placements please contact the Human Resources team.

Meet our apprentices (YouTube.com)

We also provide links to other apprenticeship opportunities:

Everyone is welcome here. Equality means having the right not to be discriminated against because of who you are or what makes you different from other people.

Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council are respectful of peoples’ differences. We value and welcome diversity and deal quickly and efficiently with discrimination.

We are committed to ensuring transparency, accountability, accessibility and equality across all of our services. This is both as an employer and as a service provider, having successfully attained the achieving level of the Equality Framework for Local Government.

As a disability confident employer we offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum essential criteria for the job as defined by Hinckley and Bosworth.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, we may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

Our status as Disability Confident leader recognises that we work to make sure that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.

Get support to start or stay in work if you have a disability or a health condition at Access to Work (jobhelp.campaign.gov.uk)

Find out more about the Disability Confident campaign at https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

You can really make a difference when you start a career with a council, and there are hundreds of varied and surprising roles to choose from.