Environmental Health Officer WCC624656

Job Details:

Salary range: £42,912 - £57,495 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience 
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP 
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 7 August 2026
Interview date: Week commencing 17 August 2026

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF OVER 6000 RESTAURANTS.

Environmental Health at Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories, where passionate and expert professionals go above and beyond for their colleagues every day.

Cian believes that food brings people together. His work opens his eyes to the widest range of people and places. From restaurants to hotels, cafés to bakeries, his inspections keep the public safe, and help businesses keep their doors open. And with over 6000 restaurants to explore, if there’s one thing he knows for certain, it’s that he’ll never be bored. 

The Role:

As an Environmental Health Officer in the reactive service delivery team, you will help protect public health and maintain safe, well-regulated environments for Westminster’s residents, visitors and businesses.

Working within Public Protection and Licensing, you will respond to food-related service requests, complaints and risks, including food poisoning allegations, allergen incidents, unsafe practices, foreign bodies and complex food standards concerns.

You will triage requests, assess risk and public health impact, create accurate cases and make proportionate decisions about advice, engagement, education or enforcement. You will also undertake visits and inspections, provide technical advice to businesses and support formal enforcement activity where required.

This is a busy, hands-on role requiring strong communication, negotiation, de-escalation and professional judgement. You will work with council colleagues, external agencies and regulatory partners to deliver a responsive, fair and informed service.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

An established professional with a degree of diploma in Environmental Health — or equivalent experience — you’ll be registered with the Environmental Health Officers Registration Board. Having conducted complex food-related investigations in a previous role, you’ll have experience advising businesses on compliance, and will bring strong triage, risk-assessment, decision-making, and conflict management skills.

On a personal level, you’ll be a strong communicator, capable of keeping a cool head in busy, challenging and sensitive situations. Your professional judgement will be excellent, and you’ll be confident interpreting and applying complex legislation. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a supportive, innovative service putting Westminster’s communities first, and to supercharge your career in the process.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is Our Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.