Environmental Health Officer - Kettering, United Kingdom - North Northamptonshire Council

North Northamptonshire Council

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Kettering, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About the role
This Environmental Health Officer role is based within our Environmental Protection Team at Kettering.

This role is a career graded post and is an excellent opportunity for both newly qualified EHP's working towards their CIEH registration (Level 1), newly CIEH registered EHP's looking to gain experience (Level 2) and Chartered EHP's (Level 3) alike.

What will you be doing?

As a qualified Environmental Health Officer you will be working within the busy Environmental Protection Team and will be responsible for statutory duties related to Statutory Nuisance, Air Quality, Contaminated Land, Environmental Permitting and planning and licensing consultations.

You will be responsible your own case load, dealing with complaints, inspections and enforcement.

About you

We are looking for innovative, enthusiastic and confident individuals with drive and determination to join our Environmental Protection Team.

As a brand-new unitary authority, we are creating a 'one team' culture which will be central to our future approach and will build solid foundations to drive service improvement.

This is an opportunity to be part of a new organisation and an exciting journey of service transformation.

The roles will be both office and home based and will eventually be working across the whole of North Northamptonshire.

About us

We are a new unitary council, established in April 2021; we are one of the largest unitary councils in the country.

Our priorities are:
- helping people live active fulfilled lives
- caring for our young people, providing them with high quality education and opportunities
- enabling a thriving and successful economy
- leading on a green and sustainable environment
- ensuring our communities are connected do they can shape their lives and where they live
- providing modern public services

Your differences make us different - Achieve Together.

We are undertaking consultation with the Trade Unions on terms and conditions and the future NNC pay structure and during this time are appointing new employees on interim spot salaries. You will be advised of the outcome and any impact on your role once this work is complete._

Our benefits

We offer:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (27 days, rising to 32 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- agile and flexible working arrangements to help you with a healthy work-life balance.