Job Introduction
We are seeking a qualified Environmental Health Officer to join our dedicated Environmental Health Team. Our team is dedicated to protecting public health through proactive and reactive work programmes, focusing on food hygiene, health and safety, and infectious disease control.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct food hygiene inspections as part of our food inspections programme.
- Investigate complaints related to food safety, food hygiene, foodborne illness, workplace health and safety, and accidents.
- Work closely with an amazing team of experienced officers to deliver an excellent regulatory service. This may sometimes include work across other disciplines such as port health work at the border control post, commercial nuisance and planning, to help meet our service objectives.
- Participate in a wide range of projects covering food hygiene, health and safety, and infectious diseases, port health work and commercial nuisance including some out of hours and/or on-call working.
Ideal Candidate:
- Degree in Environmental Health
- Completed Environmental Health Practitioner Portfolio or equivalent.
- Advanced and in-depth knowledge of relevant Environmental Health legislation and regulatory frameworks.
- Advanced knowledge of inspection, investigation and testing procedures.
- Knowledge of PACE and RIPA legislation.
- Experience of conducting investigations and inspections in the relevant regulatory function and specialism.
- Experience of conducting interviews under caution and undertaking complex enforcement activity.
- Ability to plan and organise time effectively over several cases and investigations.
- Ability to communicate and persuade, using evidence and professional expertise to build a persuasive and well-reasoned case.
- Ability to provide professional advice and translate complex technical information for a range of audiences.
- Thorough knowledge or previous experience in food safety, health and safety, and infectious disease control.
- Approachable manner with excellent communication skills.
- Ability to independently prioritise workload.
Why Join Us?
- Work alongside and amazing team of knowledgeable, dedicated, and hardworking officers.
- Engage in innovative ways to provide a sustainable environmental health service.
- Contribute to protecting public health and safety.
About BCP Council
BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people. Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline. We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services. By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, word-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.
Our Benefits
We offer an excellent benefits package to colleagues. Find out more on our website.
As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We have been in a process of collective bargaining since 2019 and have positively worked forward to reach an agreed position with the unions for the new contractual offer. This has taken longer than we hoped and therefore we are having to consider all alternative avenues available to enable us to remove inequality in the organisation as a result of bringing together 3 councils.
We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation, and all colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. We want to reassure everyone that whichever route is taken to reach the new terms and conditions, we can honour continuous service and there will not be any job reduction as a result of the implementation of Pay and Reward. If you have any questions at all about this process, please feel free to raise this with the hiring manager.
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