Senior Environmental Health Officer/ Food Safety Officer

Bexley is an outer London Borough with the best of both worlds, located between the hustle and bustle of London and the Garden of England, Kent.

Within the borough we have award winning parks, open spaces and listed heritage sites.

A vacancy has arisen for a suitably qualified and experienced Environmental Health Professional to work in our food and health & safety team (Commercial Team). 

You will hold a degree or a diploma in Environmental Health or a related subject or have significant experience in Environmental Health food and safety regulation and be able to meet the competencies for authorised Food Officers in accordance with the Food Law Code of Practice. 

Depending upon qualifications and experience you will: 

• Carry out food hygiene and food standards inspections of high and medium risk food premises, and premises requiring “approval” under product specific hygiene regulations.   

• Undertake a programme of formal food sampling for examination and analysis.   
  Investigate consumer complaints relating to food and food premises. 

• Investigating complaints, requests for service and RIDDOR reported Incidents. 

• Carrying out routine proactive and reactive occupational health and safety interventions in a wide variety of premises. 

You will have experience of inspecting a wide range of premises and of dealing with the public, businesses, and Food Safety professionals.  You will be experienced and competent in preparing legal documents, conducting PACE interviews, and initiating and satisfactorily concluding appropriate enforcement action.  You will be able to demonstrate competency at the levels required for the post. 

The ability to travel around the Borough is essential.   

Please refer to the Job Description attached for more information. 

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Bill Ewing, 0203045 5631, Bill.ewing@bexley.gov.uk 

We will offer you in return a package that includes a competitive salary, an excellent pension scheme and generous annual leave plus bank holidays. For more information on the benefits package on offer please refer to the Candidate Information document attached. 

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date. 

You will hold a degree or a diploma in Environmental Health or a related subject or have significant experience in Environmental Health food and safety regulation and be able to meet the competencies for authorised Food Officers in accordance with the Food Law Code of Practice. 

For the full list of essential and desirable criteria for this role then please refer to the Person Specification within the Job Description attached. 

This post is considered by the authority to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.    

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Additional Information 

As a disability confident employer Bexley welcomes applications from people with all disabilities, including hidden disabilities and mental health conditions. We will interview any disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made to any part of the recruitment process due to your disability, please contact us on recruitment@bexley.gov.uk. 

 
This role may be available as a development opportunity through secondment for the Council’s existing employees.  The Council’s Secondment Scheme can be found here. If this option is of interest, please contact the recruiting manager. 

Anticipated Interview Date: Five weeks after the job advert becomes live