Environmental Health Officer

Environmental Health Officer

London

£55,353 to £57,495 per annum

Discover yourself in Lewisham, where your work makes a meaningful difference to our vibrant and diverse communities.

We have a rich history of welcoming people from all over the world and are proud to be recognised as the UK’s first Borough of Sanctuary, for our work in championing the rights of refugees and migrants.

Join us in the Food and Safety Team at Lewisham as the Environmental Health Service expands. Lewisham is a thriving, exciting and diverse London borough, with major redevelopment and regeneration taking place. The Food and Safety Team is looking for experienced, highly motivated and enthusiastic Environmental Health Officers who will share in our ambition to deliver an outstanding service to the local community.

These roles involve a wide range of regulatory functions - balancing proportionate and effective enforcement interventions with providing advice and support to our local businesses. You will be managing a complex caseload that includes food hygiene and food standards inspections, reactive and proactive health and safety enforcement, infectious disease controls, complaint investigations, prosecutions, sampling, special treatments premises inspections and project work.

You will have your own district to take responsibility for and with the support of your colleagues, have the opportunity to apply the full range of your professional skills and knowledge to drive improved standards of compliance.

Excellent training and development opportunities, plus a range of benefits including:

• Generous holiday allowance
• Local Government Pension scheme
• Flexible working and family friendly policies
• Season ticket and bicycle loans
• A range of staff discounts including local subsidised gym memberships
• Supportive staff networks

You must be experienced in carrying out official food controls, health and safety inspections, complex investigations, the preparation and service of statutory notices and prosecutions. We particularly welcome applications from candidates with experience in local authority health and safety enforcement and event/sports ground safety enforcement.

You must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, attention to detail and a real commitment to providing good customer care.

We are currently working flexibly from home and the office in a hybrid work pattern, so you will need to be self-motivated, diligent and be able to work well independently. Excellent organisational and time management skills are essential. A full driving licence is required.

The job is primarily based in Laurence House, Catford, London, SE6 4RU
but we operate a hybrid approach where you will be required to work from the office for a minimum of 2 days a week.

Lewisham Council is a Disability Confident employer. We welcome and encourage job applications of all abilities. If you require any reasonable adjustments in the application or interview, please contact the lead contact on this advert. We will make reasonable adjustments to make sure our disabled applicants and those with health conditions are supported throughout our recruitment process. We support the access to work scheme, further details are available at

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Closing date:
Monday 13th March 2026.

The Council reserves the right to close adverts early if there is a large response.