Private Investigator jobs in Dronfield

Sheffield City Council’s Housing & Neighbourhoods Service plays a vital role in supporting communities across the city, managing around 38,000 council homes and delivering services that enable residents to live safely and sustainably.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Team Leader within the Tenancy Enforcement, Sustainment and Fraud Team—a key leadership role at the forefront of protecting our communities.

This role is critical in ensuring the Housing Service makes confident, timely and effective use of its full range of tools and legal powers to tackle anti-social behaviour and protect our housing stock. You will lead the continuous improvement of our approach, driving a culture of high-quality, evidence-led investigations that deliver meaningful outcomes for victims and ensure perpetrators are robustly challenged and held to account.

As a Team Leader, you will inspire and develop a team of skilled officers, setting clear expectations around professional curiosity, evidential standards and accountability. You will champion a strong investigative ethos, ensuring cases are built to a high standard and are capable of progressing confidently through legal routes. Your leadership will ensure that victims are supported, risks are managed, and enforcement action is proportionate, consistent and effective.

You will play a pivotal role in shaping an assertive and outcome-focused service—one that is visible, trusted, and uncompromising in addressing anti-social behaviour, criminality and tenancy breaches, and which directly contributes to safer, stronger neighbourhoods across Sheffield.

Location: This is primarily office based and will require travel to and work in different locations across Sheffield.

We are committed to fairness and social justice and welcome applications from everyone. We value our diverse workforce and aim to work together to make the most of our differences. Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

This is a permanent post and is full time. Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement.

For informal enquiries please contact Chantelle Rymer on chantelle.rymer@sheffield.gov.uk

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form. Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we’ll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyone and where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.