Environmental Health Officer

MindVault Inc.; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading public service organization in the UK is seeking an experienced professional to oversee public protection duties, including environmental health and trading standards. The role involves compliance inspections, legal advice provision, and mentoring of junior staff. The ideal candidate will have relevant qualifications and experience in public service enforcement, working flexibly outside of regular hours as needed.

Qualifications

• Mid-Senior level professionals with experience in public protection.
• Ability to enforce legislation and provide legal advice.
• Experience in managing and mentoring trainees is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Conduct inspections and ensure compliance with health and safety legislation.
• Handle complaints and inquiries, providing necessary resolutions.
• Lead officer in a specialist area, maintaining legal standards.

Skills

Environmental Health expertise

Trading Standards knowledge

Legal compliance

Communication skills

Team leadership

Education

Relevant professional qualifications in Environmental Health or Trading Standards

Job description

Job Family Overview

Regulation & Technical job family overview: Monitoring and enforcement of prescribed regulatory areas. Provision of services of a technical, vocational or specialist operational nature to internal and external customers.

• Assessment of physical or administrative situations.
• Judgement or recommendation regarding infringement.
• Advice on resolution to participant.
• Delivery of authoritative technical services to meet specific event based request.
• Vocational and / or theoretical knowledge and skills in specific discipline.

Service and Function Context

The overall responsibilities of the service/function are:

The Public Protection Service includes Community Safety/Anti-social behaviour, Licensing, Trading Standards and Animal Health, Environmental Control and Protection, Food and Safety, and Pest Control. The teams within the service deliver a wide range of regulatory functions using a range of approaches from advice and support to enforcement. Working closely with the public health team we will aim to coordinate and integrate our services.

Job Purpose

To carry out a full range of public protection duties as may be required, including environmental health, trading standards and animal health in one of a number of teams to ensure the effective provision of a range of high quality services within the Public Protection Service. These duties will be carried out both within the specific responsibilities of the team as listed below, and also from time to time across the wider public protection service.

The Specified Teams Are As Follows

• Public Protection Food and Safety
• Public Protection Environmental Control and Protection
• Public Protection Pest Control
• Public Protection Trading Standards and Animal Health
• Public Protection Safer Communities
• Public Protection Licensing

To be responsible for the day to day delivery of a range of statutory and non statutory public protection duties. Each team within the service covers a diverse range of statutory environmental health, trading standards, consumer protection, emergency planning, animal health and welfare, or licensing functions. These range from food safety, statutory health and safety functions including commercial health and safety enforcement and accident investigations, alcohol sales, animal boarding and breeding, gaming, dangerous wild animals, dog breeding, fireworks, gambling act, house-to-house collections, licensing act, motor salvage operators, personal licences, pet shops, petroleum, riding stables, street trading, taxis, zoos, air quality management, contaminated land assessments, noise complaint investigations, air pollution, drainage and dealing with filthy and verminous premises, trading standards, fair trading, animal health, pest control, community safety, anti-social behaviour reduction and emergency planning functions. To act as Lead Officer in a specialist area(s) of work supporting the Team Manager by interpreting legal issues and giving guidance to public protection officers, residents and businesses.

A significant proportion of the work done by the post holder is carried out away from the office and frequently outside of normal office hours. To be an authority on all law and legal practice in a specialist area of public protection. To provide specialist advice to members and committees on public protection and quasi-judicial licensing functions.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities Include:

To cover Environmental Health (EH) or Trading Standards (TS) duties relevant to one of the PPS teams covering the Wiltshire Councils area. Enforcing a range of legal powers and duties.

To conduct inspections of a specified range of premises especially to premises with high and medium risk rating to ensure compliance with all environmental health and Trading Standards legislation.

To respond to complaints and enquiries by investigation or advice as necessary. To use professional judgement to determine and implement consequent enforcement action.

Lead officer in a specialist area of work. Responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of specialist equipment to legal standards.

Ensure that Wiltshire based businesses, including national companies, comply with Public Protection legislation by offering legal advice and where necessary act as a point of reference for other UK enforcement agencies.

Direct, mentor and motivate trainee, graduate and apprentice Environmental Health Officers, Trading Standards and Technical Officers studying for their professional qualifications and to participate in their training including responsibility for their health and safety.

To maintain accurate records of actions on manual and computer systems. To ensure notebook records are contemporaneous and admissible as evidence under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE). Responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of specialist equipment to legal requirements.

Conduct and co‑ordinate complex criminal investigations (resulting from complaints, inspections and officer initiative) determining action necessary from service of notices, organisation of works in default and preparing files for prosecution. To attend court as an expert witness.

Providing the council's out of hours standby response to public protection emergencies and out of hours investigations - taking all necessary decisions, including legal action and revenue expenditure, as sole responsible person - the council's point of contact for emergency planning issues (Local Authority Incident Officer).

To carry out monitoring, inspections etc outside of office hours, often at weekends, at night or early in the morning.

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Function

Other

Industries

Construction