Senior Environmental Health Practitioner
Job description
Could you be the person who leads change and inspires others to protect our communities?
If you’re someone who is passionate about making a real difference, thrives in a leadership role, and wants to be part of a team that’s tackling environmental crime and improving housing standards — then this could be the perfect opportunity for you.
What’s the role all about?
The Environmental Health and Housing Team is a multi-disciplined team covering both environmental crime and housing enforcement across North East Lincolnshire.
The area covers the town of Grimsby, the seaside resort of Cleethorpes and the industrial town of Immingham within the beautiful Lincolnshire Wolds.
It’s an exciting time to be joining our team as we transform and integrate our regulation and enforcement services to deliver on the issues that matter to the, residents of North East Lincolnshire.
What will your day look like?
You will be part of the management team within a multi-disciplined frontline service tackling environmental crime and housing standards. You will provide visible day to day operational management of a team of Environmental Enforcement and Environmental Health Officers delivering a range of public health, environmental, highway and general community and street scene enforcement. Holding an appropriate operational caseload this role is the perfect opportunity to progress to the next stage of your career.
You will be passionate and committed to the development of others, supporting and mentoring our trainee and apprentice Environmental Health Practitioners within the team.
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for a self-motivated, enthusiastic and passionate regulator with a ‘can do’ attitude who can provide operational management to a small team focussed on protecting and enhancing the health, welfare and environment of North East Lincolnshire.
The ideal candidate will hold an accredited qualification in Environmental Health and be a registered practitioner with the CIEH Environmental Health Registration Board or have relevant other qualifications or experience that would allow the post holder to undertake the role.
For more information please contact:
Dee Hitter via
Key Dates
Interviews – 13th October
We want you to have the best interview experience with us, so will provide candidates selected for interview their questions 24 hours in advance of meeting us.
We reserve the right to close our adverts early if we have received a significant volume of suitable applications.
As part of your RewardNEL package, you will have a generous leave entitlement (including bank holidays) and enrolment into a local government pension.
You will also have access to our exclusive RewardNEL platform.
This includes a variety of salary sacrifice schemes including Cycle2Work, Holiday Extra and Tusker (Car Lease), discounts at local coffee shops and bars, direct access to our inhouse wellbeing support, free and discounted local car parking as well as instant access to new savings at major retailers, entertainment and hotels.
NELC staff can also benefit from flexible working and excellent training and development opportunities and a Fostering friendly scheme.
Do you need support?
If you need any help applying for this position, please contact Wendy Trask on (text or call). Wendy can support with digital access as well as offering advice and guidance about completing the different sections of the application form.
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