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PLACE DIRECTORATE
Regulatory Services Officer Level 2 (Environmental Health Officer)
Based at Salford Civic Centre, Chorley Road, Swinton, Salford, M27 5AW (Hybrid working)
Grade: 4B (£47,181 – £50,269 per annum)
Working Hours: 36 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 5th June 2026, 23:59
About the Role
We are seeking a fully qualified Environmental Health Officer to join our team. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced professional with strong expertise in food safety, health and safety, and infectious diseases to contribute to protecting public health and ensuring high regulatory standards across the City.
About you
Your role will be to contribute to the delivery of the service’s functions to protect and promote the health, safety and wellbeing of residents and visitors to Salford, by undertaking programmed and reactive inspections of food premises, to ensure compliance with food safety legislation.
Deliver effective health and safety interventions across a range of commercial and public settings.
Investigate and manage cases of infectious disease, outbreaks, and public health risks.
You will have opportunity to lead in areas of work and also provide mentoring support to junior members within regulatory services.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, dedicated, fully qualified and experienced EHO who is ready to work in a fast paced and dynamic team. The role requires an ability to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing. The wide range of activities you will engage in requires good organisation skills and an ability to prioritise. You will be expected to manage your own workload and record your activities accurately on an electronic database.
We are looking for a fully qualified, experienced highly organised and enthusiastic Environmental Health Officer, with experience in food safety, infectious disease control and/or health and safety. You will need to have knowledge of the aforementioned specialisms. Experience in all previously mentioned fields would be ideal.
Your communication skills must be excellent, with a commitment to customer care. You must have experience in reviewing risk assessments, and auditing/inspecting premises and processes to ensure compliance.
Ideal candidates will display the following
* Hold a degree or diploma in Environmental Health have experience which allows them to undertake the full range of interventions under the Food Law Code of Practice
* Experience in enforcement and an ability to manage their own workload, whilst working independently as well as part of a team
* Experience of dealing with confidential data
* Ability to work on project areas in the aforementioned fields
Application Details
Interested candidates are invited to submit their application to include a supporting statement outlining how their skills and experience meet the requirements of the role profile.
It is intended that interviews will take place in Early June, with consideration for availability of applicants.
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