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Environmental Health Officer - REQ003913

Closing date: 22/02/2026

Salary: Grade 9 £47,181 to £51,356

We are seeking to recruit an Environmental Health Officer to help deliver our Environmental Regulation agenda.

Work areas include food safety, food standards, infectious disease related work and private water supplies. Officers are expected to work closely and liaise with a wide range of partner teams and services within and outside the council to help solve wider community issues. The Environmental Health Officer posts are senior technical roles and are expected to cover for the team Principal Officer when required as well as taking on specialist project work, so experience is vital.

We work on a multiyear partnership with an external provider to deliver lower risk food safety visits in Sheffield, so our in‑house team concentrate on higher risk/technical work, projects and training.

We are inviting applications from dedicated and highly motivated Environmental Health Officers who can work on their own initiative, deliver behaviour change in client groups and welcome continuing professional development. We need officers with a passion to make a big difference to public health and business/consumer confidence in the city. We offer a number of chargeable services to individuals and businesses, so candidates must have a strong positive customer care attitude and understand business realities and challenges.

You should possess excellent communication skills and have experience in managing a busy caseload with a strong track record of performance. The ability to offer accurate, concise technical advice and make that relevant for a wide client group is paramount. We encourage officers to develop strong links with partners and industry / government representatives to aid the delivery of improvements in our communities.

Applicants for the Environmental Health Officer post will require a recognised degree or diploma in Environmental Health and a Certificate of Registration from the Environmental Health Registration Board (EHORB).

We can offer a wide range of experience and challenges to the successful applicant as a core city with a huge range of businesses. Sheffield City Council is an employer which values, supports and encourages the development of its employees. Flexible working is the norm which has helped during the recent lockdown with most staff able to continue working from home. We encourage mobile working and are exploring online options for inspections.

The successful candidate will work in the food safety team so we are looking at candidates that can demonstrate relevant experience and meet the Food Standards Agency Competency Standard to undertake all the range of activities’ typical of a busy, large and varied food safety department.

You must have a full driving licence and be able to travel around the City.

Interviews for shortlisted candidates will take place week commencing 9th March, 2026.

For informal enquiries please contact Mohsun Raza on 07711154134.

Email: mohsun.raza@sheffield.gov.uk

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under‑represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more here New job evaluation process to be introduced at Sheffield City Council | Sheffield City Council