Principal Environmental Health Officer; Environmental Protection

Area: Public Protection
Salary: £48,738 - £50,908
Hours: 37 per week
Closing Date: 01-Nov-2026@23:59

If you are an Environmental Health Officer looking for a step up into your first management role, or you are a senior Environmental Health Officer looking for a new challenge, this may be the new role for you.

As Principal Environmental Health Officer in Environmental Protection, you will support the Community Protection Manager to lead the Environmental Protection function, providing technical direction, professional judgement and day-to-day supervision across a broad and important portfolio.

You will help ensure the service runs smoothly, and service requests are dealt with in a timely manner.

This is a supervisory role, but you will also retain your own operational area within the borough, with involvement in complex, sensitive or higher-risk matters.

You will:

• lead and develop the Environmental Protection function
• provide expert advice on complex and high-profile environmental issues
• support a risk-based, intelligence-led regulatory approach
• act as professional lead for Environmental Protection across the authority
• work closely with planning, legal services, elected members, partners and regional colleagues

You will manage and oversee work across:

• statutory nuisance, noise and wider environmental complaints
• industrial pollution control and environmental permitting
• planning consultations
• waste crime, smoke control, Public Health Act matters and other relevant environmental protection legislation

Key aspects of the role will include:

• providing robust advice on planning and development control matters
• acting as escalation point for complex enforcement, legal and evidential issues
• representing the council at court, committees, appeals, partnership meetings and regional forums where required
• contributing to policy, strategy, service improvement and the effective day-to-day running of the team
• managing your own area of operations within the borough

This is an incredible opportunity for somebody who wants to take the next step in their career.

At Gedling Borough Council, you will be part of a supportive organisation with a clear public service ethos: serving people and improving lives. We offer a competitive local government benefits package, including access to the Local Government Pension Scheme, generous annual leave, flexible working where service needs allow, learning and development opportunities and wellbeing support.

Gedling Borough Council is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, and to creating a workplace where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.

Gedling Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Safer recruitment checks will be undertaken in line with council policy.

Please note all appointments are subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The level of disclosure required will depend on the duties and responsibilities of the role.

Please be advised, you must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application; we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.