Environmental Health Officer

**Salary**

Grade 8 - £35,235 - £39,513

**Contractual hours**

37

**Basis**

Open Ended

**Package**

Gateway Payment - £3,000

**Job category/type**

Trading Standards and Environmental Health

**Job reference**

REQAA6350

Join our Food Safety and Standards Team and play a key role in delivering the Authority’s food law enforcement services, which aim to ensure that food produced, sold, or supplied within Pembrokeshire is safe and wholesome; produced under hygienic conditions; of an acceptable quality and composition; and suitably labelled and advertised, to protect the health of the public and the rights and expectations of consumers.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Undertake proactive food safety and standards inspections, across a wide range of food businesses, including a diverse mixture of manufacturers and approved premises pursuant to the approval process and to ensure that applicable conditions are met.
- Take food samples for microbiological examination or analysis, as required, as part of planned sampling programmes and on a targeted basis in support of investigations, taking prompt action where results indicate a lack of compliance/conformity.
- Prioritise and respond to service requests, investigating complaints about food and food premises, and food-related incidents.
- Where food businesses may be implicated as the source of a food-borne disease or illness, work closely with colleagues across the wider Service, to investigate the source of infection and mode of transmission, providing advice and/or taking enforcement action to prevent further spread, and to identify any steps that should be taken to prevent future occurrences.
- Carry out revisits to check compliance with requirements following proactive/reactive intervention and for the purpose of rescoring premises under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme.
- Provide general compliance advice to food businesses, including the provision of fee-based advisory visits and engage in Primary Authority Partnership activities, when appropriate.

**About You**

We are looking for a highly motivated individual with a BSc (Hons) Degree in Environmental Health or MSc in Environmental Health, and registered with the CIEH as an Environmental Health Practitioner. Applications would also be considered from suitably experienced officers holding a Higher Certificate in Food Control (awarded by the EHRB or CIEH) or Advanced Professional Certificate in Food Hygiene and Standards Control (awarded by the CIEH) and registered with the EHRB as a Food Safety Practitioner, or equivalent antecedent qualifications.

You should have experience in food law enforcement and ideally communicable disease investigation and control. You will have the ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, and have good investigative and problem-solving skills. You will need to be able to communicate confidently and tactfully, to promote understanding and secure compliance, while having the capability and experience to use a range of formal enforcement tools where required.

A valid driving licence and access to a vehicle for business use is required.

**Why Join Us?**

You’ll enjoy a varied and impactful role, working across diverse locations in a beautiful region. We support professional development and offer the opportunity to make a real difference in consumer protection and business compliance.

As well as offering the opportunity to live, work and enjoy a beautiful part of the country, we offer a comprehensive range of employee benefits, which include:

- Competitive salary, fair and transparent pay structure, and nationally agreed annual pay awards.
- An additional ‘Gateway Payment’ of £3,000* _(as outlined in the Pay Structure Maintenance Policy s.4.3)_
- Generous annual leave entitlement of 26 working days paid leave per year - rising to 31 days after 5 years’ continuous service (pro rata)
- 8 additional public holidays (pro rata)
- Additional Annual Leave Purchase Scheme
- Employee Volunteering Scheme with up to three days paid time off to volunteer
- Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme membership (career average defined benefit pension scheme), with 17.7% employer contribution.
- Wide and supportive range of Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing resources, including a professional in-house occupational health service
- Extensive learning resources to support career development
- Career growth pathways
- Generous occupational Maternity and Paternity pay plans, in excess of statutory benefits
- Salary Sacrifice Car and Cycle Schemes
- Access to a wide range of discounts and offers
- Occupational Sick Pay (dependent on length of service)
- Flexible working and smarter working opportunities
- ‘Working together, improving lives’_

**Please refer to the job description above for more details on this vacancy and the person specification.**

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