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30th May 2025

Environmental Health Officer/ Food and Safety Officer

Introduction

Opportunities have now arisen to join the Food and Safety Team at Lewisham as the Environmental Health Service expands. Lewisham is a thriving and diverse London borough, with major redevelopment and regeneration taking place. The Food and Safety Team needs experienced, enthusiastic and highly motivated Environmental Health Officers/Food and Safety Officers to deliver our service to the local community.

What’s the role?

We are seeking officers for roles involving a wide range of regulatory functions, balancing proportionate risk-based enforcement interventions with providing advice and support to our local businesses. You will be carrying out food hygiene and food standards inspections, reactive and proactive health and safety enforcement, infectious disease controls, complaint investigations, sampling, special treatments premises inspections and project work. You will have your own district to take responsibility for and with the support of your colleagues, have the opportunity to use the full range of your professional skills and knowledge to improve standards.

What’s in it for you?

Excellent training and development opportunities, plus a range of benefits including:

  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Local Government Pension scheme
  • Flexible working and family friendly policies
  • Season ticket and bicycle loans
  • A range of staff discounts including local subsidised gym memberships
  • Supportive staff networks

What we’re looking for

You must be experienced in carrying out official food controls, health and safety inspections, investigations, the preparation and service of statutory notices and prosecutions. You must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, attention to detail and a commitment to providing good customer care.  We particularly welcome applications from candidates with extensive health and safety enforcement and event safety experience.

We are currently working flexibly from home and the office in a hybrid work pattern, so you will need to be self-motivated and be able to work well independently. Excellent organisational and time management skills are essential. A full driving licence is required.

If you are driven and enjoy a varied and challenging workload, we would love to hear from you.

Location

The job is primarily based in Catford, but we operate a hybrid approach where you will be required to work both in the office and from home on a regular basis.

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