Environmental Health Officer

Charnwood Borough Council; Loughborough; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Charnwood Borough Council seeks a motivated Environmental Health Officer to join its Food and Health & Safety Team. This dynamic role involves conducting food hygiene inspections, ensuring regulatory compliance and providing guidance to local businesses. The ideal candidate will hold a relevant degree and excel in communication, customer care, and teamwork. Flexible hybrid working is available, and generous leave along with pension benefits are offered.

Benefits

Generous annual leave between 23 and 28 days

Local government pension scheme

Essential car user scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in carrying out food hygiene official controls.
• Preparation and service of statutory notices and prosecutions.
• Ability to travel throughout the borough for site visits.

Responsibilities

• Conduct food hygiene inspections and service requests.
• Enforce health and safety regulations and investigate complaints.
• Manage infectious disease controls and approved premises inspections.

Skills

Communication

Attention to detail

Customer care

Interpersonal skills

Teamwork

Education

Degree in Environmental Health or equivalent

Job description

Charnwood Borough Council in Leicestershire is an ambitious and dynamic organisation with a strong focus on supporting communities, looking after the environment, and creating a thriving economy.

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated Environmental Health Officer to join our Food and Health & Safety Team. This role will involve a wide range of regulatory functions, balancing proportionate enforcement interventions with providing advice and support to our local businesses.

You will be carrying out food hygiene inspections, service requests, reactive and proactive health and safety enforcement, infectious disease controls, complaint investigations, approved premises inspections and enforcement work. You must be experienced in carrying out food hygiene official controls and the preparation and service of statutory notices and prosecutions.

You must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, attention to detail and a commitment to providing good customer care. You will also have excellent interpersonal skills and be a great team player. The successful candidate must be able to travel throughout the borough to attend site visits as required by the role. We are an agile organisation working flexibly from home and the office in a hybrid work pattern, so you will need to be self-motivated and be able to work well independently.

Applicants must be appropriately qualified in accordance with the Food Standards Agency Food Law Code of Practice, having a degree in Environmental Health or equivalent as well as a Certificate of Registration of the Environmental Health Registration Board (EHRB). If you are driven and enjoy a varied and challenging workload, we would love to hear from you.

There are many benefits to working with us. The Council offers generous annual leave of between 23 and 28 days (depending on grade and length of service) plus bank holidays and the opportunity to join the local government pension scheme. The essential car user scheme also applies to this post.

Additional Information

The job advert closes on 18th July

Interviews will take place on week commencing 4th August 25

Contact Details

For an informal discussion contact Vicky Spanovic or Stuart Adkins 01509 634635 or by e-mail at [e-mail]

We look forward to receiving your application.