Food Safety Environmental Health Officer/Food Safety Officer

Camden Council; London; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

Camden Council is seeking a Food Safety Environmental Health Officer to join its dynamic team. The role involves enforcing food safety legislation, investigating complaints, and supporting food businesses to ensure compliance. Ideal candidates will have relevant qualifications and experience, with a commitment to public health and safety.

Benefits

Retention Package

Market Supplement

Monthly Travel Card Allowance

£2000 New Employee Welcome Payment

Flexible Working Options

Qualifications

• Holds a BSc/MSc in Environmental Health or equivalent.
• Registered by the Environmental Health Registration Board.
• Experience in food safety and health interventions.

Responsibilities

• Enforce food safety and health legislation in food businesses.
• Investigate complaints and foodborne illnesses.
• Develop and deliver special projects related to food safety.

Skills

Food Safety

Health and Safety

Legislative Knowledge

Customer Care

Communication

Education

BSc/MSc in Environmental Health

Higher Certificate in Food Control

Diploma/Higher Certificate in Health and Safety Enforcement

Job description

Food Safety Environmental Health Officer/Food Safety Officer

Salary Range: £44,579 - £50,706 (pay award pending) plus (Retention Package / Market Supplement for fully qualified officers including 7% salary enhancement, monthly travel card allowance, £2000 new employee welcome payment, all depending on qualifications)

Job Level:Level 4, Zone 1
Work Location:5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG
Hours per week:36
Contract type:Permanent
Closing date: 10^th June 2025 at 23.59

Interviews to be held: TBC

Alternative flexible working options available / open to discussion

About us

In Camden we’re building somewhere everyone can thrive, by making our borough the best place to live, work, study and visit it can be. We’re home to UK’s fastest-growing economy and we’re making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind. The food industry is thriving in Camden and the Food Safety team plays a critical role in ensuring that food produced and sold in Camden is safe and healthy to eat. By working in partnership with the business community, we’re driving regulatory compliance, protecting consumers, and stimulating successful business growth for the benefit of all. In recognition of the vital role our team plays in keeping citizens safe, we’re growing the team and are recruiting to a number of additional EHO/Food Safety Officer roles. If you’d like to join one of London’s largest and busiest food safety teams, look no further.

The role

We’re seeking fully qualified and authorised food safety professionals to join our dynamic food safety team. You will take responsibility for delivering the full range of food safety, and infectious disease functions. In addition, you will provide resilience for the wider ambitions of the Public Protection service to respond flexibly to deliver a broad range of environmental health and public health functions as required.

Responsible for the enforcement of food safety (including hygiene and standards), and health and safety legislation in (primarily higher risk) food businesses, investigation of complaints and food borne illnesses, and supporting food businesses to improve. You will investigate, negotiate, and mediate between parties to deliver positive outcomes, and where necessary use the full range of legal enforcement powers. You will also develop and deliver special projects, policy, and research on areas of expertise and/or functional activity within the service. The role includes a substantial amount of autonomy, report writing, resolution, preventative and advisory work.

The role is based in an enabled and empowered team-focused service where all officers are expected to work flexibly to meet evolving services demands. You will work as one team to assist in the development of a culture where knowledge, experience and responsibility for making decisions on complex issues is shared where appropriate.

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About You

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:

• Food Safety Environmental Health Officer – Holds a BSc/MSc (or its antecedents; or equivalency certificate) in Environmental Health; and registered by the Environmental Health Registration Board or the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health to practice as an Environmental Health Officer/Practitioner; and meets the baseline competency requirements of the Food Law Code of Practice for an Authorised Officer; and with recent experience of carrying out relevant food safety and health and safety interventions.

OR

• Food Safety Officer – Holds a Higher Certificate in Food Control awarded by the Environmental Health Registration Board or the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health; or another “suitable qualification” as defined in the Food Law Code of Practice for an Authorised Officer; and meets the competency requirements of the Food Law Code of Practice for an Authorised Officer; and with recent experience of carrying out relevant food safety interventions; and ideally holds a suitable qualification in Health and Safety enforcement such as a Diploma/Higher Certificate in Health and Safety Enforcement. Other related qualifications including IOSH/NEBOSH Diploma may be considered. Ideally has recent experience of carrying out relevant health and safety interventions.

You will have an excellent knowledge/understanding of the legislative framework relevant to the team, and experience in its application. You will deal with a wide range of casework including difficult and complex cases, resolving and delivering innovative interventions.

To succeed, you will bring a track record of working collaboratively with internal and external partners, demonstrating good outcome-focussed customer care and communicational skills to identify innovative and creative approaches to complaints and Camden objectives. You will have the ability to take an organised approach to your own workload whilst dealing with conflicting priorities, and to ensuring a customer service focused approach.

We will also consider graduate EHOs/candidates who are in the process of completing their food safety qualifications to apply. If successful you will be offered a graduate/training position until you can be fully authorised.

Working for Camden

We’re ready to welcome your ideas and your views. Help us redefine how we’re supporting our communities,and we’ll redefine what a career can be. If that sounds good to you, we’d love to talk.

At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits as well as joining a flexible working employer. ClickHEREtosee full details of our benefits.

Additional information

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Asking for Adjustments

Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, [e-mail] post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG.