Food Officer - Lancashire, United Kingdom - Lancashire County Council

Lancashire County Council
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Salary £32,020 - £36,298 per annum | Permanent, Full time, 37 hours per week | County Hall, Preston (Hybrid)/Countywide


We are currently recruiting
A Food Safety Officer to work within the Trading Standards Service at Lancashire County Council.


Are you a qualified and customer focused Food Safety/Standards Officer who understands the importance of your role within the community? Our Trading Standards Service has a significant responsibility to ensure that food standards are exemplary and keep our society safe.

The Food Standards Team within the Trading Standards Service is a specialised team which is amalgamated with multidisciplinary experts including metrology, animal feed and agriculture.

We deliver essential statutory services to a variety of stakeholders both internal and external.

This is to guide and encourage legal compliance, with enforcement when necessary, to protect both the businesses and consumers within Lancashire.

We are excited to welcome a Trading Standards Food Safety Officer to add further value to our team.


What we are searching for

Advise & Influence - We are seeking an influential and experienced Food Safety Officer to advise local businesses in Lancashire and help govern compliance within food standards legislation. You'll have core responsibilities to ensure businesses are up to speed with the rules, obligations, and the priority of the safety and fairness of trading to their customers. This critical role requires a current knowledge of legislation with the ability to plan for future changes that impact businesses and/or consumers. You could be advising on practical solutions, timescales or the steps required to ensure any objectives are met; with your technical expertise you will make critical judgements to influence and encourage local businesses to comply with their statutory obligations.


Communication & Collaboration - As a confident professional, we'll need you to communicate to a wide audience of stakeholders; including food manufacturers, importers, exporters, retailers, the health & wellbeing industry and more. With your excellent interpersonal skills, you will deliver food compliance information with purpose, transparency, knowledge and equality. You'll build positive working relationships with partner agencies such as the Food Standards Agency, Environment Agency etc. In this varied role you may need to have difficult conversations so how you approach each situation will be key. Finally, you'll be an exceptional team player and understand the importance of listening, guiding and collaborating with other's to achieve the best outcomes.


Why join us

Benefits:

There's fabulous flexibility and the opportunity to create the work life balance you'll love with up to 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays, 2 additional days at Christmas and then an additional 20 days that can be purchased too - we also have a generous local authority pension with shared AVC's available, and a benefits package that will exceed your expectations, from a 24/7 Employee Assistance Program to a range discounts on dog care, day care, holidays at home or abroad, long service awards, Medicash, support groups, cycle to work schemes and eye tests plus much more which are available to view on the LCC Website.


Development:
You will get support and development along the journey.

There will be time for supportive reflection and supervision for yourself, opportunities for personal growth and development, multidisciplinary initiatives, professional qualifications, apprenticeships, the opportunity to make a difference, feel valued and achieve the job satisfaction you've always wanted.


Inclusivity:

We don't have a "one size fits all" idealism, we embrace diversity and that includes around personal and family requirements, therefore we support an array of flexible working opportunities to attract diverse talent.

We take inclusivity seriously and would like to improve the diversity within our teams to better reflect the people we serve, so we are particularly keen to hear from you if you are from the LGBTQ+ or BME community or have a disability.


Closing Date:2nd July 2023
Interviews:
W/C 10th July 2023 (Subject to change)


Please ensure you have uploaded and attached your supporting statement to evidence how you meet the criteria for the role. The panel may be unable to shortlist you for interview without this evidence.


You will be required to provide a car for use in connection with the duties of this post and must be insured for business use.

However, we may consider you if you cannot drive because of a disability.

In return Lancashire County Council offers a range of benefits, which can be found on LCC Vacancies website.

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