Environmental Protection Officer
£31,586 - £35,235 (Pay award pending)
Full time 37 hours a week
Maternity Cover up to 12 months FTC
Rugby Borough Council is dedicated to both Community and Colleague growth. With a focus on wellbeing and personal development, we offer a range of career opportunities where you can take pride in the positive changes you help create. Join an organisation committed to the success of one of the Countrys fastest-growing boroughs and the people who makeitthrive.
About the role
Do you want to make a difference? You have an exciting opportunity to be part of our Environmental Health Team within Regulatory Services. Youll be part of a team delivering a quality service to residents, on issues that are often complex and can have a negative impact on quality of life.
This role sits within the commercial regulation side of Environmental Health. You will be involved in supporting wider activities such as skin piercing and tattoo regulation, health and safety enforcement, commercial nuisance investigations, and ensuring compliance with relevant environmental crime regulations. Youll be responding to service requests and enquiries, carrying out inspections, enforcing legislation where appropriate and providing relevant specialist expertise. Environmental Protection Officers are also expected to deputise and support the management functions of the team leader.
This is a Maternity Cover role up to 12 months in duration.
About you
We are looking for a highly motivated professional Environmental Protection Officer with experience of working as a part of a multi disciplinary team to solve problems and address community concerns.
Youll have experience of using enforcement powers in an appropriate and relevant discipline and experience of leading enforcement investigations and implementing a range of enforcement interventions.
Alongside this youll need an ability to deal effectively with challenging members of the public and other customers and be able to assimilate complex and conflicting information in order to make sound judgements and recommendations.
Familiarity with Civica Cx would be advantageous.
Benefits
35 days leave (including 8 Bank Holidays and 3 extra days normally applied at Christmas)
Generous Local Government Pension Scheme
Hybrid working up to 60%
Flexi time scheme
Annual leave purchase scheme
Structured Induction Program
Learning and Development opportunities including Future Leaders programmes
Payment of a professional subscription for approved professionals
Family Friendly Policies
Independent Support for your health & wellbeing
Generous compassionate leave
Extra Benefits including Retail Discounts, Car Salary Sacrifice & Cycle to Work scheme and more
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