Trading Standards Professional

**About The Job**
As a Trading Standards Professional, you will engage with businesses to evaluate regulatory compliance and serve as an investigating officer on matters relevant to your level of expertise.

While not mandatory, as a qualified officer, you are encouraged to enhance your professional knowledge and experience.

Our work in the Trading Standards Service is dynamic, and each day presents its own unique challenges and rewards There will be some key responsibilities likely to feature in this role, including:

- Carrying out investigations, inspections, testing, sampling, licensing and other duties predominately on trade, business or farming premises as may be necessary.
- Providing comprehensive advice and guidance to customers and businesses, you will negotiate or influence others to adopt a specific course of action to ensure compliance with legal requirements.
- Producing investigation reports and interview records, as well as handling and processing data and information. Ensuring the careful use of specialized testing equipment
- Assessing compliance with regulations, issuing improvement notices, gathering evidence, coordinating with test laboratories, identifying witnesses, and conducting formal interviews.

**Required Experience and Skills**
- Experience working within a Trading Standards Service and the ability to comprehend the Service's broader aims and objectives.
- CTSI Trading Standards Practitioner Diploma, or Passed the End Point Assessment for L6 Trading Standards Professional Apprenticeship or FCATS plus 40 points under previous qualification framework or Diploma in Trading Standards.
- Demonstrable evidence of providing a comprehensive, effective, and efficient trading standards service to a diverse range of customers.
- Strong communication skills, with the capacity to confidently influence, advise and explain information effectively to a diverse range of people as well as negotiate and persuade others to adopt a specific course of action.
- Skills to prioritise and organise your own work in a logical way to meet agreed deadlines.

**For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.**
**Rewards and Benefits**
As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide a great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

- an excellent local government pension scheme.
- generous holiday entitlement of 27 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
- a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
- maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
- volunteering opportunities
- training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
- a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
- health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our **Rewards and Benefits page.**
**Further Information**

The reference number for this role is EIE01401.

CC

Job Reference: EIE01401