Trading Standards Officer

4 weeks ago


Leicester, United Kingdom Leicester City Council Full time

**Job details**:
Job reference
- REQ2559

Date posted
- 17/07/2023

Application closing date
- 30/07/2023

Location
- Various locations across Leicester City

Salary
- £31,099 - £41,496 per year

Package
- Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement) £56,582

Contractual hours
- 37

Basis
- Full time

Job category/type
- Business Support

Attachments

Job Specification (184) (1).pdf

**Trading Standards Officer**:
Job description

Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent

Play a key role in ensuring businesses and consumers are protected from unfair rogue trading.

Our dynamic, multi-disciplined team enforce and promote trading standards in a wide range of work areas, in particular fair trading, doorstep crime, metrology, scams, and product safety, across the city. We protect the health and well-being of our citizens and encourage businesses to prosper. A valued member of our team, you’ll plan and lead on service projects, inspections, investigations, and enforcement.

This is a full-time, permanent role working 37 hours per week from Monday to Friday. This is a career graded post. The salary grade at which appointments will be made will depend on qualifications and/or demonstrable competency and experience. Progress will be by satisfactory demonstration of competency agreed at annual Appraisals and through on-going supervision.

**What you’ll be doing**

You’ll provide compliance advice to business, undertake, report upon, and evaluate service projects, and carry out inspections. Undertaking investigations; you’ll gather evidence including witness statements and expert opinions to create robust cases for formal enforcement. You’ll prepare reports to brief colleagues, senior officers (including legal services) and create legislative briefings. Liaising with key partners including regional Trading Standards services, HMRC, Police and other organisations, you’ll support the work of the service. In addition, you may be required to provide evidence in civil and criminal enforcement action in court as required.

**What you’ll need**

You’ll have some previous experience in Trading Standards or similar regulatory environment and/or formal qualification in trading standards such as DTS, DCA, DCATS. With good attention to detail, you’ll be capable of analysing problems in a structured manner, using evidence and your knowledge to determine the best course of action to achieve compliance. Using excellent communication skills, you’ll provide clear and constructive feedback, influence, and persuade behaviour changes and deal effectively with witnesses.

**What we can offer you**

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.

**Join us**

**Applications will be reviewed as soon as they are submitted, and suitable applicants will be interviewed immediately.



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