Environmental Health Officer

The City of Edinburgh Council; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

The City of Edinburgh Council seeks an Environmental Health Officer to ensure high standards of health and safety within the city. The role involves conducting inspections, working with communities, and promoting environmental health. Successful candidates will have a degree in Environmental Health and demonstrate a commitment to service excellence.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Comprehensive training and development

Qualifications

• Qualified Environmental Health Officer, newly or experienced.
• Commitment to high standards of service delivery.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations.
• Conduct inspections and assessments across various settings.
• Engage with the community to promote health initiatives.

Skills

Environmental Health

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Degree in Environmental Health

Job description

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Waverley Court

Salary: £44,257 - £52,373

Hours: 36 per week, 52 week

Although we welcome applications for a range of hours (please be clear on application).

The City of Edinburgh Council is a predominantly urban Local Authority with a population of approximately 523,000. Edinburgh is a popular tourist destination with visitors coming to see the city's museums, markets and monuments as well as some of the most famous festivals in the world. Providing for the population and visitors requires services and facilities that meets their needs including entertainment, restaurants, bars and cafes. Edinburgh is an important financial centre and is home to a number of universities and colleges and some manufacturing. This dynamic operating environment and the impacts of both technological and legislative change require a strong Environmental Health Service performing to the highest standards of competency, service delivery and professionalism. There can be few places more interesting than Edinburgh to work in Environmental Health.

Our Environmental Health Service comprises four teams: one covering Environmental Protection and three Food, Health and Safety teams. We are looking for enthusiastic and energetic EHOs to enhance our Food, Health and Safety Teams. We can offer a dynamic and interesting environment and want to encourage applications from qualified Environmental Health Officers (newly or experienced) looking for a new challenge. These posts will be based in Waverly Court although work is throughout the city with a degree of flexibility and some home working (subject to operational requirements). Some work out of normal office hours will be required.

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We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/work-us/behaviours" ; target="_blank">Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

Happy to talk flexible working.

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