Environmental Health Officer/Food Safety Officer

Environmental Health Officer/Food Safety Officer WCC75112

Salary Range: £34,689 - £48,576 per annum. Salary is negotiable depending on experience

Work Location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6QP

Hours per Week:  36

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 2 July 2021

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY

Food Safety in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories, officers are quickly able to use their range of skills and competencies to ensure the Community is protected. Take Jessica for example. Jessica was a newly qualified officer who was quick to recognise when a food premises had an imminent risk to public health and required closing. With senior colleagues to help support and advise, she not only closed and prosecuted the food business but also established that the premises supplied food to 8 other premises spanning neighbouring local authorities. She worked across the boroughs to seize and dispose of food and ensure that the communities were safe. All this within her first year as an Environmental Health Officer.

The Role:

As an Environmental Health Officer/Food Safety Officer you can make your own powerful contribution by ensuring the food across our borough meets the standards our communities expect and deserve.

We’ll give you all the specific training you need to complete inspections at a variety of businesses.

The visits could be part of regular assessments, in response to public complaints or even an infectious disease notification. And while you’ll handle some cases yourself, there’ll often be times you work alongside colleagues from other teams and departments too.

In every case, you’ll assess the situation against Food Safety and Standards policies and procedures, and take action where required – which could involve giving evidence in court.

There’ll also be opportunities to speak at public events and exhibitions, promoting our work and the importance of food safety.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information. 

About You:

It would help to have experience in the field. But equally, you could recently have qualified with the EHRB, or be near to completing your studies.

However, it’s vital that you have not only a practical approach but the strength of character to deal with potentially difficult clients – and the passion to inspire everyone to ever-better food safety.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. There are 250,000 diverse residents, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses, and three-quarters -of-a-million people working here every day. Our mission is to create a city for all.

We’re an organisation that wants the very best for our residents: a supportive and safe environment, the chance to grow and learn throughout their lives, to build fantastic careers in world-leading industries, to have access to high quality, affordable homes and to retire into the community with dignity and pride.

At Westminster City Council, we believe everyone should be valued, and we are passionate about our aim to be an inclusive workplace that reflects the communities we serve. As such, we particularly welcome applicants from underrepresented backgrounds, including BAME, LGBTQ+ and those with hidden or visible disabilities. Quite simply, we’re committed to ensuring all our staff – regardless of gender, age, religion, sexuality, ethnicity or disability – can succeed.

We appreciate that people work in different ways. As a progressive and innovative organisation, we welcome applications from candidates keen on working in an agile environment. Furthermore, as a Timewise employer we strive to provide flexible working arrangements and an empowering environment that enables you to be your best.

With such a commitment to helping our people achieve a great work/life balance, we were delighted to be awarded the ‘Best Health and Wellbeing Initiative’ in the Business Culture Awards 2020, while we were Highly Commended in the ‘Diversity & Inclusion’ category.