Environmental Health Officer/public Protection Food

**Job Details**:
**Salary range**:£48,063 - £51,099 per annum
**Work location**:The Clockwork Building, 45 Beavor Lane, Hammersmith, W6 9AR
**Hours per week**:36
**Contract type**: Temporary up to 8 months, with the potential to extend
**Closing date**: 29 September 2024
**Interview date**: 2 October 2024

**About the role**:
Building for the Future

Hammersmith & Fulham prides itself on being a great place to work as well as one of London’s most compassionate and caring councils. We have an exciting opportunity for experienced officers who are keen to make a difference. Our team’s highly varied workload focuses on delivering efficient, effective, and fast outcomes.

Role Responsibilities:

- Ability to carry out high risk food hygiene / food standards inspections including (A and B) category.
- Carry out FHRS rescore revisits.
- Respond to service requests.
- Investigate food complaints.
- Investigate infectious disease notifications.
- Ability to take enforcement action, accurately draft Improvement/Emergency Hygiene Prohibition notices.
- Monitoring / management of follow up admin and revisit actions where informal and formal action has been taken, checking works in progress, ensuring that the necessary works etc. have been properly executed in accordance with good practice.

Please refer to the **Role Profile** for more information.

**Role Specific Qualifications**:
Essential for the Role:

- Qualifications and experience in line with the Food Standards Agency Competency Framework. For example, Degree in Environmental Health, EHRB Registered or the Higher Certificate in Food Control.
- Able to demonstrate they meet the Core Competency requirements of the Food Law Code of Practice and provide CPD records.
- Have up to date professional, legal, and technical knowledge to support the operation of the Teams’ food safety functions.

**Our People Values**:
How we act defines who we are. At the heart of our organisation is a common approach to defining ‘who we are’. We are looking for people who can build this into everything they do.

**We are fair**
We treat everyone with compassion, dignity and fairness. We value the views and opinion of others, and promote benefits and opportunities for all.

**We are caring**
We care about our borough and doing things well. We focus on standards and continuous improvement; learning from our mistakes and celebrating success.

**We are collaborators**
We work together for a better society. We work with our residents, businesses, schools, third sector and others for better outcomes for everyone.

**We are driven**
We will only settle for the very best. We seek to continually improve and put our residents, customers and businesses at the heart of everything we do.

**Our commitment to you**:
At H&F you will have access to a comprehensive total reward package as well as joining a flexible working employer and as such all staff can request flexible working Click HERE to find out more.

We believe an inclusive workplace is about the visibility and representation of our local diverse community - it is about open and transparent decision making co-produced with staff and residents.

It is about respect for diversity and a shared identity that seeks to encourage fair and transparent recruitment, retention, and career progression. We take a proactive approach to equity, diversity, and inclusion so that it is part of the fabric of the Council with a shared understanding of the role all colleagues play in realising the inclusivity of the workplace. At H&F, our workplace ensures that everybody has equitable access to opportunities.

In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equitable access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Qualification (GOQ) applies.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

To explore more about the work we do towards being an inclusive employer and our commitments to achieve this please click HERE.

**Asking for Adjustments**

We are committed to removing barriers in the workplace and this includes adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

Hammersmith & Fulham Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

Corporate Equalities