Environmental Health Officer - Commercial Food & Safety

Cornwall Council; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Cornwall Council is seeking an Environmental Health Officer to join the Primary Authority team. This role involves supporting businesses with Health & Safety compliance and delivering training. Ideal candidates will have a relevant degree and experience in providing advice across various sectors. Flexible working options are available, and the position offers a competitive salary and benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Defined benefit pension scheme

Generous annual leave entitlement

Employee health and wellbeing programme

Access to discounts on goods and services

Qualifications

• Minimum degree level qualification in a relevant subject area or equivalent experience.
• Registered with the Environmental Health Officers Registration Board (EHORB).
• Competency to act as an inspector under the Health & Safety at Work etc Act 1974.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice to businesses in various sectors including hospitality and retail.
• Deliver training to Primary Authority partners.
• Support Health & Safety enforcement team as needed.

Skills

Health & Safety

Training Delivery

Teamwork

Education

Degree in relevant subject area

Registered with EHORB

Job description

The Service & Team:

An exciting opportunity exists to join the Primary Authority team at Cornwall Council as an Environmental Health Officer. This is a small team which includes the Primary Authority Account Manager and two full time members of staff who work with a number of our Primary Authority partners. Cornwall currently has 61 active Primary Authority partnerships across the hospitality, retail, manufacturing, importing and distribution sectors covering all regulatory areas, so this is an exciting time to join the team to help provide support to our current Primary Authority partners and to be involved in the development of new partnerships. Our Primary Authority delivery is one of our commercial products which is charged out to businesses on a cost recovery basis.

The team is part of the Environmental Health team, which currently has around 30 officers, and works very closely with our Trading Standards team and our colleagues in Fire Safety.

The Role:

Ideally, we’re looking to hear from those with a background in Health & Safety who also have experience in providing advice to businesses of all sizes, including manufacturers, retailers, caterers and the hospitality sector. However, we would also welcome applications from those looking to gain experience in relation to providing Primary Authority support to businesses, as well as newly qualified or nearly qualified Officers. This is a perfect role to develop new skills alongside an experienced, supportive and positive team, and the role will also provide you with the ability to fully understand the businesses that you work with so that you can identify and provide the support they need to grow and thrive.

Training is a big part of the support that we provide to our Primary Authority partners, so experience in delivering training will be useful.

Additional support may also be provided to our Health & Safety enforcement team.

You must be a team player and enjoy new challenges, often working to tight deadlines. Cornwall Council offers a flexible working pattern and your work will involve travelling around Cornwall as well as out of county, and you may need to work outside normal office hours to meet or work with our Primary Authority partners. In return, you can enjoy over 400 miles of spectacular coastline with lots of activities available all year round on the sea or in the beautiful countryside that Cornwall has to offer.

This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to a standard criminal record disclosure check.

Working Pattern:

This is a full time position of 37 hours per week. This will be generally Monday to Friday but some out of hours working and occasional weekend working may be required. Flexible working options are available, such as compressed hours.

What you’ll need to succeed:

You will have a minimum degree level qualification in a relevant subject area or equivalent experience, and will be registered with the Environmental Health Officers Registration Board (EHORB). You must demonstrate that you are able to meet the competency requirements to act as an inspector for Cornwall Council under the Health & Safety at Work etc Act 1974. If you can also demonstrate competency to undertake food safety interventions as defined in the Food Law Code of Practice, this may be helpful but not essential. We will also consider applications from those who are nearly qualified.

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What you’ll get in return:

Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

· a competitive salary.

· a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions

· a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.

· A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme

· Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information:

Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

The full role profile is attachedhere

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Sue Powell [e-mail]

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstratewhy you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here –The application process.

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please [e-mail] you have any queries or require assistance with your application