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10th January 2025

Environmental Health Officer - Food and Health & Safety

As a Safe City Environmental Health Officer, you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster’s success.

You will join a highly experienced team, where you will get opportunities to develop your environmental health skills while challenging yourself. The team’s aim is to ensure that every resident, business, and visitor of Westminster will thrive in a clean, safe and quiet city.

As a part of our environmental health service, you will work within and nurture an integrated Public Protection and Licensing directorate that is responsible for ensuring a culturally competent, inclusive workforce that identifies with our community through its positive values and behaviours.

You will also need to channel your environmental and health knowledge to help make Westminster healthier and equitable for all residents and businesses.

Responsible for developing, implementing and enforcing environmental health policies and legislation, you will use specialist technical skills and knowledge to maintain and safeguard health and well-being standards. You will also need to carry out routine or unplanned inspections to ensure compliance with legislation and take action to improve conditions, through engagement, education as well as enforcement.

While delivering a fair and informed response to complaints from our communities, you will resolve issues and risks that were highlighted in a time-effective manner. There will be instances where you will have to take enforcement action, initiate legal proceedings and prepare evidence to present in court. You will also need to promote integration of environmental health principals across the Council and its partners, while providing guidance and support to improve public health.

About You:

To be successful in this role, you must hold a Degree or Diploma in Environmental Health or other relevant qualifications that enable you to undertake the responsibilities effectively. Ideally, you will have regulatory experience in food safety, food standards, and health & safety. For roles within our food service, you must meet the Food Standards Agency competency framework outlined in the Food Law Code of Practice Guidance. You will be registered with the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) – either directly or via prior registration with the Environmental Health Registration Board (EHRB).

You will have great oral and written communication skills, and a proven track record of responding to complaints regarding environmental health disciplines from the public, including stakeholders and public elected members, both in writing and in person. Any experience of working in a relevant environmental health discipline is also highly desired.

Past experience of delivering a customer facing role with the ability to build trusted relationships in emotionally challenging situations and responding calmly when facing conflict owing to your great interpersonal skills, is also preferred. You should also have good listening skills, where you can hear diverse point of views and influence behaviours through sharing knowledge and outlining consequences.

You should also have the ability to work closely with a range of both internal and external teams, and a proven track record of working with various agencies and professionals, building effective relationships to deliver excellent customer service and improve public health.

You should have experience in managing cases, including gathering information and evidence to support legal action, and a fair understanding of legal nuances of court proceedings. Your understanding of the legislation, procedures and requirements should allow you to improve compliance and clearly inform on consequences and penalties of non-compliance.

You will have strong analytical skills and the ability to assess the appropriate intervention based on the risks posed to the public by non-compliance with regulations. Your decision-making skills will enable you to act swiftly and effectively to achieve compliance and mitigate risk, often in real-time scenarios.

Past experience in planning and managing workloads to meet agreed targets and standards within set timeframes will serve you well in this role. You will be comfortable working independently with minimal supervision while operating in the community, and you’ll have a clear understanding of when and how to escalate risks appropriately.

Proficiency in IT, particularly with the Microsoft Office Suite, is also important to thrive in this role. You should also be open to using handheld technology for recording information, completing tasks, and responding to customers while working across the city.

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