An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Environmental Health Officer to join the Public Protection Team at Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council.
As an Environmental Health Officer, you will be instrumental in achieving both our proactive and reactive work programmes. You will work alongside an experienced group of officers who are knowledgeable, dedicated, hardworking and ever keen to protect the public whilst exploring innovative ways of providing a sustainable regulatory service, across a wide range of services in food hygiene, health and safety, infectious disease, investigation of complaints and accidents and to enforce other statutory provisions and provide relevant advice.
Our ideal candidate will have completed their Environmental Health Practitioner Portfolio and be a CIEH registered Environmental Health Practitioner.
You will have a thorough understanding or previous experience of working in food safety, health and safety and infectious disease control. To succeed in this role, you will have an approachable manner, excellent communication skills and the ability to independently prioritise your workload. The ability to inspect high risk and complex food processes incorporating knowledge of food standards would also be desirable.
This multi-disciplinary role requires a committed and flexible officer to contribute to delivering the team's wide range of functions. The successful candidate will be expected to carry out a variety of duties in a timely and effective manner, while maintaining confidentiality in all areas relating to the work of the Council.
About You
You must have an Environmental Health Degree/Diploma, ideally with previous recent work experience in Environmental Health disciplines and believe that you can make a valued contribution to our service.
You must be able to work effectively and flexibly as part of a team and to prioritise and manage personal workloads.
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