Senior Environmental Health Officer

Senior Environmental Health Officer

Salary:PO3 £ 42,839 - £46,142

Hours:Full Time – 37 Hours p/w

Contract:Permanent

Location:Office base at Seacroft, Leeds, with the opportunity for hybrid working

As a Senior Environmental Health Officer, you will have a real passion for protecting public health and play a key role in helping to improve the lives of Leeds residents.

Leeds City Council is one of the largest employers in the region with over 14,000 employees. We seek to recruit and develop talented individuals who embody our council values and ambitions.

As a Senior EHO you will bring to the role:

• A commitment to protecting and improving public health and the environment.
• Have excellent communication skills and the ability to work with a range of different partners and stakeholders.
• The ability to take a lead role delivering a range of environmental protection and regulatory functions.
• The ability to develop, lead and deliver specific work streams, projects, and service improvements.
• The ability to supervise, mentor, develop and support team members.

Leeds City Council are looking to recruit a Senior Environmental Health Officer in the Environmental Protection and Health & Safety Team. Leeds is one of the largest and most diverse cities in the UK, and a key economic, legal and hospitality centre for the region. This makes it an exciting, vibrant, dynamic place to work, and will give you excellent opportunities to progress your professional career.

We are inviting applications from dedicated and highly motivated Environmental Health Officers who can work on their own initiative, have a desire to develop their career, and are ready to adapt to future ways of working. We are looking for people who can engage with communities and businesses and have a real passion for improving public health.

Working with our Team Manager and other Senior Environmental Health Officers in the team, you will take a lead role in developing and delivering a range of environmental protection, licensing and regulatory functions.

If you are looking to expand your skill set, whilst retaining a specialist role, this is the job for you. You can expect a challenging mix of casework, projects, and the opportunity to develop your supervisory and managerial skills.

You should possess excellent communication skills and have experience in managing a busy caseload. The successful applicant should have the ability to build effective working relationships, have a solid knowledge of the legislation and be able to demonstrate a commitment to reducing health inequalities.

Applicants will need a recognised degree or diploma in Environmental Health, a Certificate of Registration from the Environmental Health Registration Board or Chartered EHP status. You will have recent experience of Environmental Protection work including statutory nuisance and licensing functions.

Job Purpose:To make a significant contribution to the delivery of environmental health services by a range of interventions including premises and business inspections, incident investigations, consultations and taking the appropriate follow up action including the use of formal enforcement procedures such as statutory notices, statements of evidence and the attendance at court as a witness.

To monitor service delivery standards including those delivered by third parties and to recommend and participate in service improvement and change programmes. To lead a specialist work area and deliver service provision for environmental and public health functions. To supervise and manage individuals on a day-to-day basis.

• Deliver and oversee a range of complex environmental health activities including business inspections, incident notifications, licence/approval inspections, complaint investigations and assessment of consultant reports. Assimilate complex and varied information to decide on statutory or non-statutory response to service requests and investigations, take forward appropriate enforcement action, including prosecution cases, in accordance with current legislation, council policy and best professional practice.
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