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Environmental Health Officer - Building Safety Programme WCC617561, London
Client:
Shared Services Partnership
Location:
London, United Kingdom
Job Category:
-
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
2873e9974716
Job Views:
7
Posted:
18.02.2025
Expiry Date:
04.04.2025
Job Description:
Salary range: £41,580 - £47,628 per annum
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 2 March 2025
About Us:
Environmental Health at Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories, where passionate and expert professionals go above and beyond for their communities every day.
Natasha started her career in the NHS. She came to Westminster to do more for vulnerable people. When a family in her community reached out to her after their heating was cut off, Natasha took their situation seriously. Living in terrible conditions, and reaching desperation, they had nowhere else to turn. Natasha stepped in, holding the landlord to account and getting them to improve conditions for the family. These are the moments that make her the proudest. Now, she uses her expertise and experience to empower others.
The Role:
As Environmental Health Officer, you can make your own powerful contribution to housing and wellbeing in our diverse communities. A key member of our Building Safety Programme team, you’ll enjoy great scope to expand your experience and knowledge, taking your environmental health expertise to the next level. The team is responsible for regulating standards in residential accommodation, with a particular focus on ensuring the remediation of external wall systems (EWS) on high and mid-rise buildings that are privately owned.
It’s a challenging role, as you’ll be working with new legislation: the Building Safety Act 2022. Carrying out building inspections, you’ll check compliance, identify risks and work with building owners to ensure they follow the Act and keep every resident safe. It’s about education: helping businesses and individuals to understand and meet regulatory requirements. It’s about reassurance: making sure everyone who lives in Westminster can sleep soundly. And, if necessary, it’s about enforcement: taking action to ensure safety.
About You:
While experience of working in a relevant environmental health discipline would certainly be an advantage, it’s not essential. You’ll need to be confident understanding and explaining legislation, procedures and requirements to people, to improve compliance and be clear about the consequences of not making change happen. Whether dealing with building owners, residents, Council colleagues or our partner agencies, it’s your way with people that will really set you apart in this role. You have what it takes to build trusted relationships quickly, often in emotionally charged situations: responding calmly, listening carefully, deescalating conflict and influencing a positive outcome. Excellent organisational skills equip you to manage cases, gather evidence, plan your workload and deliver to high standards with minimal supervision.
What We Offer:
Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties.
As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for an interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.
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