Environmental Health Officer - Malton, United Kingdom - iWork Recruitment Limited

iWork Recruitment Limited

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Malton, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Contract to start on until with a possible extension.

Requirement, a fully qualified Environmental Health Officer with experience of working in a fast paced Environmental Protection Team.

Must demonstrate:

Experience in an enforcement role relevant to the functions of the Residential team (Environmental Protection).

Good oral and written communication skills.

Ability to manage time effectively.

Ability to work with team members to achieve results.

Ability to identify problems, analyse information and use judgement to reach informed decisions.

Ability to understand and meet the needs of customers.

Experience of carrying out legal investigations, compiling legal cases and giving evidence in court.

Experience of implementing enforcement policies and procedures.

Experience of recording, collating and reporting information for various audiences.

Experience in use of specialist environmental health software.

Able to work in a team or independently with mínimal supervision.

Responsibilities
Protecting the health, safety and wellbeing of the County's residents, businesses, and visitors.

Providing high-quality support and advice to County's residents and businesses.

Ensure that food manufactured, prepared, exported, imported, and offered for sale in the County complies with safety and hygiene requirements by working with the food industry and where necessary taking enforcement action.

This is achieved by carrying out a range of interventions including advice and education, inspection/audit of food businesses using a risk-based system, investigating complaints about food and the hygiene of food premises, sampling of food for local, regional or national initiatives/surveillance, and in response to complaints and to support investigations, issuing export certificates and other attestations to enable business to export their products outside the UK and where appropriate carrying out controls on imported foodstuffs; responding to reports from the Food Standards Agency and other local authorities regarding foodstuffs that fail to comply with food law, investigating food fraud and other criminality linked to food.

Protecting the health of communities by investigating cases/suspected cases and outbreaks of food poisoning and food borne disease and other diseases such as Legionellosis.

Protecting the health, safety, and welfare of workers and those affected by the activities of business by enforcing workplace health and safety legislation and investigating workplace accidents and fatalities in relevant businesses.

Regulating prescribed industrial processes through a permitting regime to ensure that emissions to air, water and land are minimised and in accordance with required standards.

Protecting the health of private water supply users by ensuring that the water meets the required safety parameters and supplies are suitably maintained.

Monitoring the air quality in the County including working with other departments such as Licensing and Highways to gain improvements and where exceedances in pollution standards are identified declaring and then managing Air Quality Management Areas.

Ensuring that land in the County does not present an unacceptable risk to human health, controlled waters, ecological systems, crops, livestock, buildings, and property by identifying and dealing with the Contaminated Land in accordance with the regime a set out in Part 2A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

Responding to Planning and Licensing consultations to minimise the impact upon the environment and residential amenity and ensuring the fulfilment of Licensing Objectives under the Licensing Act 2003 for prevention of public nuisance.

Investigating and determining statutory nuisances and when required taking enforcement action to abate the nuisance.

RQ

Salary:
£25.00 per hour

Work Location:
In person