Environmental Health Officer

Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council seeks an Environmental Health Officer for its Public Protection Team in Ashton-under-Lyne, UK. The role involves proactive and reactive work in food hygiene, health and safety, and infectious disease control. Candidates should have an Environmental Health degree, relevant experience, and strong communication skills. The position emphasizes teamwork, effective workload management, and maintaining confidentiality while contributing to community health and safety initiatives.
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 and the successful candidate will be expected to carry out a variety of duties in a timely and effective manner and that general confidentiality is maintained 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., Our employees' skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
• This post is classified as being in a professional job category. As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria : 1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above, AND 2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND 3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND 4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level. This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English.

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities. We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.