Technical Officer Rbkc616324

Technical Officer RBKC616324

Job Summary:

Salary range: £28,545 - £30,771 per annum
Work location: London 
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent 
Closing date: 23rd May 2024 
Interview date: Week Commencing 3rd June 2024 

About Us:

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is a vibrant place to live and work. Within the Council, we put residents and businesses at the heart of decision-making, working in partnership to provide quality services that are responsive, efficient, and effective. We want to be the best council and are committed to supporting environmental health and safety within the Borough in every way we can.

The Role:

As an Environmental Health Technical Officer, you will support the whole of the Environmental Health service in a plethora of ways. This will include processing Food Registrations under the Food Safety Act 1990, managing notices served under sections 60 and 61 of the Control of Pollution Act, maintaining the Environmental Health Archives, and preparing a range of notices across the Environmental Health teams (for example Housing Act and Public Health notices). You will also manage online training and candidate coordination (including invoices and payments) and work closely with the Director of Finance to manage budget spending and income.

This is an office-based role with one or two days per week working from home. You will be joining our friendly, experienced, and open team who always hit their targets. We meet regularly, hold weekly 1-2-1 sessions, and remain in constant dialogue with each other. 

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

We are looking for someone with common sense, strong analytical skills, and the ability to work on their own initiative. We are open to a range of qualifications, training, and experience as long as you can learn quickly and get the job done.

You should possess excellent communication skills, as you will be interacting with people across all kinds of departments, from Food Safety to Pest Control and Public Health. We must get our work done promptly, so you’ll need to be able to work independently, effectively, and with accuracy.

You will have previous administration, data-inputting or electronic record-keeping experience, and a good knowledge of GDPR would be an advantage. The role also requires excellent keyboard skills, a working knowledge of database and computer packages and good literacy and numeracy.

Please apply online explaining how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and job description. We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.

Application process

Please do not upload any documents, including CVs/Covering Letters or supporting statements, as these documents will not be reviewed and could result in your application not being shortlisted.

You should describe how you meet the person specification requirements for the position you are applying for in Section G of the application form.

Additional information

We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.

We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.

This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.

We do not accept speculative CVs from any source.

Please note, that we will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk/spam folder as our system-generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.

If you experience difficulties with the recruitment application process, please contact the recruitment team by email: recruitment@rbkc.gov.uk