Intermediate Environmental Health Officer - Food Safety

Job Description What's involved with this role: Interim Intermediate Environmental Health Officer – Food Safety Reference no: Ealing 8142-1 Pay Rate: £33.45 per hour PAYE 35 Monday – Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for 3 months City: EALING, LONDON Must have recent local government experience in Food Safety enforcement. Key Responsibilities:

• Support businesses to achieve full legal compliance through advice and education programs but where necessary take the appropriate and proportionate enforcement actions in accordance with national and Council policies and relevant legislative provisions to safeguard public health and the food supply chain.
• Respond to, and where necessary investigate and report upon complaints and requests for service in relation to food safety and workplace safety, health and welfare issues. Where necessary liaising with the relevant external agencies including the Food Standards Agency (FSA), Health & Safety Executive (HSE), Public Health England etc.
• Investigate reported infectious disease complaints and notifications.
• Work collaboratively with other teams and departments towards achieving the Council’s strategic objectives.
• Undertake and discharge the responsibilities of a duly appointed and warranted Environmental Health Officer.
• Exercise warranted powers and authority to make application to Court under Food Safety or Health & Safety legislation including, for the ‘closure’ of food premise giving rise to imminent risk to the health of the public.
• Act as the Council’s specialist and where appropriate expert witness on matters within the post holder’s professional expertise and where appropriate, making such expertise, knowledge and experience available to the team and the Regulatory Services Department.
• Act as point of reference for expert knowledge, professional interpretation of legislation and guidance as applicable in the support of Regulatory Services Officers in the team as well as the Regulatory Services Department and Council.
• Undertake and self manage within delegated parameters and authority lead responsibility for specific areas of service delivery in Food Safety and related H&S matters, initiating, executing and overseeing proactive complex projects to improve business awareness and compliance in these areas.

Key requirements:

• Higher level specialist qualification relevant to Food Safety duties. Including, Diploma/Degree in Environmental Health, or equivalent food /environmental related diploma or degree course.
• Qualification to act as an Environmental Health Officer (EHORB Registration).
• In depth practical and theoretical knowledge and skills sufficient to effectively carry out technically specialist and complex difficult duties within the Food & Workplace Safety team.
• Strong working knowledge of Food Hygiene Rating Scheme.
• Previous recent experience in working in Local Government.
• Experience of undertaking complex investigations and enforcement work.
• Experience of technical supervision of staff, students or contractors.
• Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite, Adobe Pro).
• Ability to train and equip other Regulatory Services Officers in specialist areas of work.

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. ***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms , where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us directly via by quoting the job reference and exact job title. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please