Senior Environmental Health Practitioner

**Salary up to £37,000 + £5,000 car allowance**

Are you an Environmental Health Professional? Would you like to contribute to the future of food safety and health & safety compliance solutions? Are you professional, flexible, friendly and motivated? If yes, we offer a great working environment, friendly and supportive like-minded individuals for work colleagues and great clients.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Responsible for all aspects of location visits undertaken, this includes, and is not limited to, - audits, training and ad hoc consultation tasks
- Ensure audits are uploaded timely and accurately
- Responsible for the quality and accuracy of all written and verbal communication to, and on behalf of clients.
- Responsible for meeting individual performance targets.
- Organise workload in an efficient manner and conform to processes established by the Audit Team Manager and supported by Services Co-ordinator. This includes management of MS Outlook diary and the production of information for POs as needed, in a timely and accurate manner.
- Participate in the Auditor Rating Scheme as directed by the Audit Team Manager.
- Produce and deliver Special Tasks as directed by the Services Co-ordinator
- Support the IT Team, Sales Team, Marketing Team and Client Services Team with technical advice and resource, when required.
- Support the Sales Team with clear and concise communication for sales leads
- Participate in out of hours Helpline
- Schedule and manage workload effectively, communicating risks and issues to the Development Manager

**Requirements**:

- BSc (Hons) or MSc (Hons) in Environmental Health
- 2+ years’ experience in food safety, health & safety or risk/compliance solutions
- Excellent report-building & communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Ability to manage your own time effectively
- Strong relationship building skills
- IT literate

**What we offer**
- An attractive base salary plus £5,000 car allowance on top
- Unrivalled career progression opportunities
- 33 days' holiday (including Bank Holidays) plus the option to buy or sell 5 days each year
- And much more...

**Who are Shield Safety?**

We are a leading Environmental Health consultancy, focussed on making safety simple and we work with a wide range of businesses across Hospitality and Retail. Our clients range from single-site coffee shops and takeaways to supermarkets and pub groups. Basically, anywhere you can eat, drink, sleep or shop in the UK. Some of our well-known clients include Tesco, YO Sushi, Empire Cinemas, Radisson Hotels and KFC. We're extremely proud of our 95% customer retention rate.

We specialise in providing risk-management services including Food Safety Audits, Health & Safety Audits, Fire Risk Assessments, Consultancy and Training. All delivered by a highly experienced and well-qualified team of Safety Professionals. We’re also paper-free. Our clever team of software superstars have developed RiskProof, our cloud-based software and companion app for compliance and risk management. Shield Safety celebrated our 20th birthday this year and we’re extremely excited for the future and what’s to come next

**What do we offer?**

If you enjoy working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment surrounded by other passionate, like-minded people then read on. Continued training and development is key for all members of our team and a tailored training and induction plan is given to each new starter to help them get up to speed. There are always new opportunities to get involved in various projects across departments and we fully support CPD in order to help everyone reach their full potential.

**Some of our benefits include**:

- 33 days’ holiday (incl. Bank Holidays) plus the option to purchase 5 extra days per year
- Flexible working options incl flexi-time and remote working
- 5% employer pension contribution
- Employee Assistance Programme & Wellbeing App
- Various discounts (gym memberships, HelloFresh boxes, Nike, Look Fantastic, My Protein, family breaks, hotel stays, trips to theme parks and so much more)
- Generous Maternity Leave and enhanced Paternity Leave
- Monthly one-to-ones with your Manager to ensure you have all the support you need
- Health Cash Plan
- Financial support options

What are we looking for?

We are incredibly passionate about our core values and we ensure that every new member of our team can demonstrate these.

We work with passion
- Love what you do
- Have fun
- Be bold

We focus on excellence
- Be the best
- Strive for excellence
- Never stand still

We put people first
- Do the right thing
- Collaborate
- Be there for others

**Equality, Diversity and Inclusion**

At Shield Safety we are proud to have a diverse workforce, and we are committed to ensuring equality and inclusion at all levels within the business. It is imperative that we have a mix of talents, skills and experience within our teams and actively encourage diversity in order to meet these requiremen