RQ1570713 – Food Safety Consultants

Carrington Blake Recruitment; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialized recruitment agency is seeking an Environmental Health Officer to enforce food hygiene and health safety regulations in Liverpool. The role involves conducting inspections, investigating cases of complaint and food poisoning, and providing guidance to ensure compliance with public health legislation. Candidates must hold an accredited Environmental Health degree and have significant experience in enforcement roles. The position offers a competitive hourly rate and the potential for both full-time and part-time work.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in local authority enforcement.
• Experience in food and health safety inspections.
• Detailed understanding of food safety regulations.

Responsibilities

• Conduct routine inspections to ensure compliance.
• Investigate food poisoning and health complaints.
• Support and mentor newly qualified officers.

Skills

Advising and guiding for regulatory compliance

Interpersonal and communication skills

Conflict resolution

Ability to manage workload

Proficient IT skills

Education

Accredited Environmental Health degree (BSc or MSc)

Registered as an Environmental Health Practitioner

Tools

Word

Excel

Databases

Job description

• £50 an hour
• Contract term- immediate start to be reviewed 31st March 2026. Full time however part time will be considered.

Job Purpose

Enforcement of commercial businesses to ensure compliance with relevant food hygiene and health and safety legislation and to protect the general public in relation to public health matters, including infectious disease investigations.

Directly Responsible For:

Not applicable

Directly Responsible To:

Operations Manager – Commercial Team

Principal Environmental Health Officer – Commercial

Main Areas of Responsibility:

• Undertake routine inspections and visits to enforce relevant food hygiene, health and safety and public health legislation in a wide range of commercial businesses
• Investigate food poisoning cases / outbreaks and infectious disease
• Carry out accident investigations, including serious and fatal incidents
• The work will involve dealing with patients, injured persons, relatives of injured persons and the bereaved
• Respond to service requests / complaints, including commercial waste and drainage
• Enforce the skin piercing Bylaws, and other public health work including exhumations
• Undertake food, water and environmental sampling as required
• Undertake interventions and enforcement action which may include:

• • inspection reports
  • warning letters
  • statutory notices including hygiene emergency prohibition notices / prohibition notices / improvement notices
  • prosecution case files
  • obtain witness statements, and any other correspondence required during the investigation in accordance Police and Criminal Evidence Act and the City Councils Enforcement Policy
  • This will require working to deadlines

• Attend meetings, Magistrates / Crown Court, Coroners Court, tribunals and committees, as required
• This role will involve accompanying other officers. Also to motivate, guide and provide assistance to newly qualified officers
• Provide specialist / technical advice to other service areas
• Assess and interpret guidance and information such as sampling results and technical reports, some of which may be complex, to determine an appropriate course of action
• Engaging and liaising with a variety of stakeholders including UKHSA, HSE, FSA, Coroners, Police and Public Health
• The role will involve producing, handling, processing and storing data of a confidential and sensitive nature in accordance with council policies and statutory requirements
• Provide information and assist and support the Operations Manager, Principal Officer and Commercial team including the provision of information for Have Your Say Requests and requests made under the Freedom of Information Act
• Attend training courses to maintain your continued professional development and competence, as required, by the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and the Food Standard Agency’s Food Law Code of Practice and Competency Framework
• Develop the City Council’s commitment to equal opportunities and to promote non-discriminatory practices in all aspects of work undertaken
• To undertake necessary work and duties outside of normal office hours as reasonably required
• This role involves some lone working

Qualification and training

Essential

• Hold an accredited Environmental Health degree (BSc or MSc or equivalent) (A)
• Be registered as an Environmental Health Practitioner with the Environmental Health Registration Board (EHRB) or the Professional Register with the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (A)

Desirable

• Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience in a local authority enforcement role carrying out statutory duties (A)
• Experience undertaking food hygiene inspection and health and safety inspections (A,I)
• Experience in undertaking complaint investigations (A,I)
• Experience of working regularly on your own initiative to deal with problematic situations that are unusual and require you to come up with a solution (A,I)
• Experience of working regularly as part of a team (A,I)
• A detailed understanding of food safety and health and safety and public health legislation (A,I)
• Experience of undertaking complex and demanding investigations (A,I)
• Experience taking formal enforcement action (I)

Desirable

• Experience of dealing with approved premises

Skills/Abilities

Essential

• The ability to advise, guide, negotiate and persuade to achieve regulatory compliance in a variety of settings, some of which are demanding and contentious (A,I)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both written and oral (A,I)
• Ability to deal with situations of conflict which may involve verbal abuse and aggression (I)
• Ability to deal tactfully and compassionately with employees and members of the public in sensitive situations where a death, serious injury or ill health has occurred (I)
• Ability to work with minimal supervision to deliver statutory programmes (I)
• Ability to manage your own workload using a risk-based approach for both the annual inspection programme and for reactive work demands (A,I)
• Ability to manage conflicting demands and interruptions (I)
• Ability to use a variety of work equipment relevant to the post (A)
• Proficient IT skills in Word / Excel and updating databases (A)

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