Health Protection Officer

Opus People Solutions; Northampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A temporary role for a Health Protection Officer specializing in food inspections with a leading council. Responsibilities include conducting statutory food hygiene inspections and ensuring local businesses comply with health and safety laws. The position requires recent experience in food safety controls and health & safety interventions, offering competitive pay of up to £50 per hour.

Qualifications

• Experience in Food Safety Official Controls within the last 3 years.
• Experience in Health & Safety priority interventions within the last 3 years.
• Ability to carry out inspections, audits, and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Conduct food safety inspections according to law and guidance.
• Manage workload and maintain accurate records.
• Make decisions to ensure business compliance.

Skills

Understanding of the Food Law Code

Problem solving skills

Decision making

Education

Post-qualification specialism in food safety and/or health & safety enforcement

Job description

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Job Title: Health Protection Officer (Food Inspections only)

Location: Northampton and the Towcester/Daventry hubs field based

Rate of Pay: Up to £50 per hour Umbrella

Type: Temporary Role - 10 Weeks

Opus People Solutions are working with West Northamptonshire Council to recruit for a Health Protection Office (Food Inspections Only) to conduct food hygiene inspections and hazard spotting health and safety issues. The food hygiene inspections of Category A & D premises.

Duties:

• To carry out statutory food safety at local businesses in accordance with current law, procedures, policy and guidance; within agreed timescales and occasionally outside of normal working hours.
• Using problem solving skills, make decisions and take action where appropriate to ensure that businesses comply with the relevant law.
• To effectively manage personal workloads and maintain accurate and comprehensive records/notes of activities carried out and ensure that they are retrievable.

Person Specification:

• Understanding of the Food Law Code of Practice Competency Framework to demonstrate the ability to carry out relevant Official Controls i.e. Inspection, Audit, Sampling for analysis, Monitoring, Surveillance and Verification
• Experience in the delivery of a range of Food Safety Official Controls detailed in the Food Law Code of Practice within the last 3-years.
• Experience in the delivery of a range of the Health & Safety National/Local Priority interventions detailed in LAC 67/2 within the last 3-years.
• Post-qualification specialism in food safety and/or health & safety enforcement.
• Working in local government.

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