Environmental Health Officer / Food Safety Officer/Graduate Environmental Health Officer

Environmental Health Officer / Food Safety Officer/Graduate Environmental Health Officer

Management Grouping:  Place

Team: Public Protection Team

Location: Bexleyheath

Salary: £36141 - £45957 (33753- 37.944 for graduate) per annum plus a 7.5% market supplement

Contract: Permanent /36 hours per week

A vacancy has arisen for a suitably qualified and experienced Environmental Health professional to work in our food and health & safety team (Commercial Team), or an Environmental Health graduate who wishes to complete their portfolio. 

You will hold a degree or a diploma in Environmental Health or a related subject or have significant experience in environmental health food and safety regulation and be able to meet the competencies for authorised Food Officers in accordance with the Food Law Code of Practice.

Graduate applications will also be considered, and we will facilitate the completion of your portfolio.

Depending upon qualifications and experience you will:

• Carry out food hygiene and food standards inspections of high and medium risk food premises, and premises requiring “approval” under product specific hygiene regulations. 
• Undertake a programme of formal food sampling for examination and analysis. 
• Investigate consumer complaints relating to food and food premises.
• Investigating complaints, requests for service and RIDDOR reported Incidents.
• Carrying out routine proactive and reactive occupational health and safety interventions in a wide variety of premises.

You will have experience of inspecting a wide range of premises and of dealing with the public, businesses, and food safety professionals.  You will be experienced and competent in preparing legal documents, conducting PACE interviews, and initiating and satisfactorily concluding appropriate enforcement action.  You will be able to demonstrate competency at the levels required for the post.

Graduates without experience will be fully trained on all areas of Environmental Health work. 

A driving licence and the use of a car is essential due to the nature of our work.

What we offer:

• Relocation Package up to £8,000
• Career Average Revalued Earnings Pension Scheme
• Performance Related Pay
• Up to 25 days pro rata
• Annual Leave (rising to 28 days pro rata after 5 years’ service) plus Bank Holiday Entitlement Annual Leave Purchase Scheme
• An excellent working environment at our fantastic new offices
• Opportunities for flexible working with excellent ICT facilities
• MyChoice Staff Benefit Scheme – Includes Cycle to Work Scheme, access to high street shopping vouchers and online discount codes.

About us:

Bexley is an outer London Borough with the best of both worlds, located between the hustle and bustle of London and the Garden of England, Kent. Within the borough we have award winning parks, open spaces and listed heritage sites.

Your Application:

CVs will not be accepted unless they are submitted with a completed application form. Anticipated Interview date: to be confirmed  

This post is considered by the authority to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages

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The Council reserves the right to withdraw this vacancy and may do so at any point up to and including where offers of employment have been made, if a suitable redeployee who is otherwise at risk of redundancy is identified for this role.