Food Safety Officer - NAY15707

North Ayrshire Council; Irvine; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Food Safety Officer with North Ayrshire Council, requiring an enthusiastic individual to join the Environmental Health team. The role involves food inspections, investigations, and sampling, serving the public and local businesses. Experience in food law is beneficial, but new officers are welcomed.

Qualifications

• Will assist in delivering high-quality service to the public and organizations.
• Experience in food law enforcement preferred, but consideration for recently qualified officers is available.

Responsibilities

• Conduct food law inspections.
• Investigate complaints and infectious diseases.
• Perform food sampling.

Skills

Communication

Negotiation

Job description

Job Summary

We may conduct our interviews in person or using Microsoft Teams for video calling. All you need is a device with a camera and access to the internet. We will provide guidance and instructions on how to use this method if your interview is being held virtually.

We are a disability confident leader and we support reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. For more information, visit important-information-for-applicants (north-ayrshire.gov.uk).

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Food Safety Officer to join our professional and friendly Environmental Health team based in Irvine, covering the whole area including the scenic islands of Arran and Cumbrae. You must be an enthusiastic individual with excellent communication and negotiation skills, willing to help deliver a high-quality service to the public, the business community, and external organizations. Your main duties will involve Food Law inspections, complaint and infectious disease investigations, and food sampling. Experience in food law enforcement is preferred, but consideration will be given to recently qualified officers. Salary will depend on experience.

For more details, see the attached Role Profile below.

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Staff Values & Behaviours

North Ayrshire Council uses a behavioural-based approach throughout the recruitment process. Our staff values of Focus, Passion & Inspiration will be explored for this vacancy.

Further information on our Staff Values and how to complete behaviour-based application questions is available at Staff values and behaviours (north-ayrshire.gov.uk).

Additional Information

If this post requires references, you will be notified of further details if you are successful in gaining an interview. Not providing relevant references when requested may delay the outcome of the process.

Our Workstyles

North Ayrshire Council has identified four different Workstyles. Each post is allocated one of these styles:

Agile - 100% of time spent working flexibly and interacting with others. Work can be at home, in the office, or multiple locations. Attendance at the office on set days or rota basis may be required.

This post has been allocated the workstyle: Agile.

More information on our workstyles can be found in our HR Guide - Workstyles (north-ayrshire.gov.uk). If you have questions about the Workstyle for this role, please ask at the interview.