Commercial Environmental Health Officer

West Suffolk Council; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking council as an Environmental Health Officer, managing a diverse caseload across environmental health, food safety, and licensing. The role requires strong IT skills and the ability to travel within the West Suffolk area. Enjoy a range of benefits including generous holiday entitlement, a robust pension scheme, and flexible working options.

Benefits

25 days holiday entitlement

Generous pension scheme

Life assurance

Essential car user allowance

Flexible working options

Agile working

Employee benefits package

Salary sacrifice benefits

Rail and bus staff discounts

Health and Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Manage own caseload in environmental health.
• Conduct site visits across a large rural area.

Responsibilities

• Investigate complaints and enforce legislation.
• Collaborate with customers and partners for improvements.

Skills

Environmental Health

IT Skills

Education

Qualified Environmental Health Officer

Job description

About the role:

We are looking for an enthusiastic, confident, and innovative individual with drive and determination to join our dedicated team.

Working within the Regulatory Service you will be expected to manage your own caseload, investigating, and enforcing a range of legislation across environmental health work with food, occupational health and safety, infectious diseases, and licensing.

Ensuring a high standard of service delivery and performance, your day-to-day role will involve carrying out interventions; investigating complaints to a successful resolution; working collaboratively with and supporting our customers, businesses, and other partners to bring about improvements; and participating in new ways of working. You will think of new and innovative solutions to help businesses meet their legal obligations.

What you will need:

The ideal candidate will be a qualified Environmental Health Officer. Site visits are required in a large rural area so the suitable candidate will have the ability to travel throughout the West Suffolk area.

West Suffolk Council operate a tablet-based inspection system, comprising of an inspection form, letter and report for which training will be provided. As such we require the successful candidate to ensure their IT skills are at a high level.

This is an exciting time to be joining West Suffolk Council which has gained a reputation for being ambitious and forward-thinking. The successful applicant will have to demonstrate a record for working at pace, embracing change and delivering against objectives.

Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details of this exciting opportunity.

Why work for us? Our benefits include:

• Holiday entitlement of 25 days, increasing to 29 days after 5 years (pro rata if part time) plus bank holidays (with an option to buy up to 10 extra days each year subject to approval)
• Generous pension scheme – contribute between 5.5% and 6.8% (depending on your salary) and the council will contribute 26%
• Life assurance – a payment of three times your annual salary
• Essential car user allowance of £846 - £1,239 per annum (depending on engine size)
• flexible working options to enable work/life balance
• agile working - ability to work in the office and from home
• access to a unique employee benefits package which includes discounts and cashback on supermarkets, high street shops, holidays, mobile phones, electrical goods, savings and loan schemes and many other products and services
• Salary sacrifice benefits including Cycle to Work scheme, Tusker Leased Car Scheme and SmartTech (buy the latest tech products interest free and repay through your monthly salary)
• Rail and bus staff discounts
• A range of Health and Wellbeing initiatives including an employee assistance programme
• Discounted membership at Abbeycroft Leisure centres
• A culture of learning inspiring staff to focus on continuous learning
• Modern office accommodation

For more information:

For an informal discussion and further information, please contact Luke Martins-Hesp, (Commercial Environmental Health Team Leader) on 01284 757056 or email [e-mail]

Closing date: Sunday 8 June 2025

Interview date: To be confirmed

West Suffolk Council has been rated in the top 10 councils for climate action and as a member of UK100 has demonstrated its commitment to a rapid transition to Net Zero with Clean Air in our communities. The council has declared a climate and biodiversity emergency and is committed to working towards net zero emissions by 2030.