What's involved with this role: Temporary Environmental Health Officer Job Ref: Exeter 5253840 Pay Rate: £19.35 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 2-3 months City: Exeter, Devon The purpose of the role is to assist the Environmental Health and Licensing Manager in providing a regulatory service and carrying out the Council’s statutory duties Key Responsibilities: Investigation of complaints relating to business premises. Carry out 100 inspections per officer. Respond appropriately to requests for service in accordance with national and internal guidance and procedures. Inspection, auditing, sampling or other appropriate intervention of commercial premises, processes and plant in order to establish the most satisfactory course of action in respect of enforcement. Preparation and enforcement of statutory notices taking any action appropriate. Monitoring of works being undertaken as a result of legal action. The collection of evidence associated with contraventions of the legislation enforced by the Unit for use in court proceedings. Attend court proceedings or other enquiries on behalf of Exeter City Council when required to do so. The administration of national and localised schemes such as the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme and Primary Authority Partnerships. Appropriately respond to consultations from other sections within Exeter City Council and with external agencies in accordance with policies and procedures. Undertake research, monitoring and provision of information and statistics as may be required to fulfil the duties required by the section. Qualifications: BSc/Diploma in Environmental Health and EHRB Certificate of Registration. Additional professional qualification e.g. Diploma in Acoustics, Diploma in Air Pollution Control or equivalent relevant qualification Numerate & literate desirable. Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. Practical experience in general environmental health enforcement. Experience of letter writing. Experience of dealing with complaints/enquiries from members of the public. Experience in maintaining record systems and statutory enforcement procedures. Experience in interviewing under caution and facilitating the completion of statements. Experience or working within Environmental Health Services with a particular knowledge in the area or the work covered by the post e.g. noise/pollution/contaminated land. Familiar with PACE, CPIA, RIPA and other Acts association with investigations. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite). Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. S Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please