Principa Regulatory Officer - Food Safety

About Us At Hounslow

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

We live by five core values:
Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Food Safety Team as a Principal Regulatory Officer. In this role, you’ll be primarily working on ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, improve public safety and enhance the quality of life in the London Borough of Hounslow and will have the opportunity to develop your skills in improving compliance, related strategies and policies regarding food safety, supporting underperforming food businesses through targeted advice, educational programmes and official food control interventions.

The successful candidate will be joining the Food Safety Team, a key function within the Environment Health Services, part of the Environment and Transport directorate at the London Borough of Hounslow. Our teams core purpose is to safeguard health by ensuring that food businesses across the borough operate in line with statutory food safety requirements, protecting our residents from harm and promoting high standards in local hygiene.

The work we do has a direct and measurable impact on the health and wellbeing of our community. From preventing food borne illnesses and managing local outbreaks, to providing advice and enforcement that improves food standards, our team plays a critical role in maintaining public trust and safety.

The team consists of Environmental health officers, technical officers and compliance support staff, all working collaboratively to deliver both proactive inspections and responsive interventions. The successful candidate for this role will report directly to the Food Safety Manager, acting as a key deputy in their absence.

The role will take the lead on compliance and statutory requirements, contributing to the service wide improvement projects that aim to enhance quality, consistency, and operational efficiency. The role will require confidence in decision-making, especially in situations where the Food Safety Manager is unavailable.

This is a high impact role for a motivated, collaborative professional who thrives in a dynamic environment and is passionate about protecting and improving public health…