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21st March 2025

Environmental Health Service Officer

How you'll make a difference

You will make a difference as an Environmental Health Service Officer in the Food, Health & Safety Team by delivering services aimed at protecting residents, businesses and communities by providing food safety, food standards and health and safety expert advice.

What you will be doing

Areas that you will cover include inspections, food hygiene and food standards, service requests, infectious diseases, sampling, complaints and investigation of illnesses and health caused by work.

You will deliver a risk-based service involving both preventive and reactive measures to include inspection, interventions, campaigns and programmes.

Following investigations, you will take appropriate action in response to breaches of statutory requirements and provision to address statutory needs, in order to protect health and the environment.

It will be your responsibility to prepare and respond, as required, to major incidents or other emergencies requiring the mobilisation or response of environmental services staff.

You will ensure that set targets are achieved and corporate and departmental policies are implemented, particularly the council’s guiding principles.

Working with internal and external contacts, customers and colleagues, you will explain technical policies and standards and the need for compliance with them and also offer an education and support service.

What we need from you

You must be educated to degree level in an environmental health related subject, or able to demonstrate an equivalent level of relevant knowledge.

We require you to have experience of working in an area of Environmental Health.

It is essential that you have experience in environment health processes and procedures as well as a good understanding of the service delivery environment.

You will have a strong ability to communicate, influence and negotiate outcomes critical to service delivery, as well as the ability to translate technical issues to facilitate the understanding of non-technical audiences.

It is key that you are able to manage your workload, prioritise and respond to demands to ensure both customer satisfaction and ensure that legislative requirements are met.

Work will be a combination of office based and visits to residential, business or industrial premises, or to open sites.

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