Food Safety Officer

**About The Role**:
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We are looking for qualified Environmental Health professionals to join our busy Commercial team. Islington is a busy inner London Authority seeking to ensure business compliance across the borough. You should be a dynamic, hard-working person who has a passion for improving standards and taking enforcement action where needed. You will need to do the basics brilliantly, and engage with residents and communities to help us keep residents and businesses safe.

The Commercial team deal with food safety, health and safety at work, infectious disease prevention, public health work and public health complaints regarding commercial premises. The team works on a proactive and reactive basis.

**Main Duties of the job**

You will be securing food hygiene and food standards improvements to a range of food businesses in the borough through inspection, engagement and enforcement.

You will be investigating RIDDOR reports and health and safety complaints as well as carrying out a range of intelligence led health and safety inspections.

You will be investigating and resolving complaints of a public health nature, such as odour nuisance or drainage issues, associated with commercial premises.

You will be utilising your expert knowledge of relevant legislation to identify the most appropriate enforcement action to secure compliance with legal requirements. You will also collate and present evidence in court and may be required to present evidence at certain types of licensing committee.

You will be authorised to undertake the full range of enforcement powers, including Improvement and Prohibition Notices, simple cautions and Prosecutions.

You will manage a mixed caseload of reactive service requests, project work and proactive inspections.

You will collect, use and analyse data to validate interventions and maintain thorough records of actions and decision making.

You will establish good working relationships with business owners, complainants, UKHSA, FSA, HSE as well as other council officers to achieve the best outcomes for service users.

**Working for our organisation**

Islington is a vibrant, diverse and dynamic borough and you will play a key role in helping us to create a more equal Islington. By working collectively as a team, we will support people and communities and deliver the right services at the right time

There are a range of benefits to working for Islington:

- Up to 31 days leave per year (plus 5 days with long-service entitlement)
- A range of flexible working arrangements
- Excellent pension scheme
- Learning and development opportunities to maximise your potential
- Annual season ticket loan
- Zone 1-2 Travel card
- Cycle to Work Scheme and discounted gym memberships
- Payroll giving
- Personal computer incentive scheme

For further information or for an informal conversation about the post, please contact:
Michelle Webb Or Maxine Morgan Environmental Health Managers

**Working for the team, service and our organisation**:
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Islington is a place rich with diversity and culture. As a council our sense of purpose couldn’t be clearer: we serve. It’s in the logo. We are committed to challenging inequality in the borough and as one of the largest employers we know that to look after the place and the planet, we have to look after our people. **Together we can change the future.**

We are determined to create a more equal Islington, where everyone who lives here has an equal chance to thrive.

To do this, everyone who works at Islington Council lives by a set of values which guide us in everything that we do: collaborative, ambitious, resourceful, and empowering. They spell out ‘CARE’, which is what we think public service is all about.

Watch our video to hear more about our mission and how you can help us achieve it from the Leader of the Council, Cllr Kaya Comer-Schwartz.

**Recruitment information**- **Please note**: Priority will be given to those at risk of redundancy within Islington Council. Current employees who are part of the redeployment pool must meet the essential criteria for shortlisting to be prioritised.