Pest Control Officer WCC621122

Job Details:

Salary range: £34,275 - £37,437 per annum.  Salary negotiable depending upon experience 
Work location: 1 Regency Place, Westminster, London SW1P 2EB
Hours per week: 36 
Contract type: x2 Permanent
Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check  
Closing date: 15 June 2025
Interview date: Week commencing 23 June 2025
Contact details for informal discussion: Ahmed Majed, Team Leader via email on AMAJED@WESTMINSTER.GOV.UK

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF GRACE’S PASSION AND DEDICATION

The Environment & Communities Directorate in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where dedicated people like Grace are using their skills and passion to progress environmental action in the heart of London.

It was at university where Grace first started campaigning for improved recycling facilities, water refill stations, and other eco-friendly initiatives. When she saw the real difference people could make when they came together, she knew she wanted to dedicate her career to community action for the planet.

When she joined us as Principal Engagement Officer, Climate Emergency, she quickly established herself as a passionate advocate for community outreach, engaging various stakeholders across Westminster in the social causes, impacts and solutions to climate change, air pollution, and biodiversity loss. 

Grace became a driving force behind our first Citizens’ Climate Assembly, which took place across two weekends in the summer of 2023. Fifty residents were chosen at random from across our diverse communities to come together, learn about the climate emergency, and deliberate how we overcome the barriers to becoming a net zero city by 2040. The assembly produced several recommendations which have informed the evolution of our Climate Emergency Action Plan. Due to the success of this initiative, we’re holding more assemblies to continue community involvement in local decision-making.

To see the work of the Westminster Citizens’ Climate Assembly, click here

The Role:

As a Pest Control Officer you can make your own powerful contribution to Westminster’s success. Working to discharge our statutory obligations and helping to ensure that, so far as is practicable, the City of Westminster is kept free of rats, mice and other vermin, you’ll deliver a customer focused, high quality service. Taking responsibility for advising complainants and other members of staff regarding suitable treatments and preventative measures, you’ll carry out surveys of sites and premises after a complaint or request for service has been received, or as part of a regular inspection programme.

Coordinating and carrying out treatments appropriate to specific tasks, and using approved methods to ensure the most efficient destruction of pests, you’ll undertake block treatment and sewer baiting programmes, and collect and dispose of clinical waste. We’ll also expect you to keep proper records of the work you carry out, and monitor the use of pesticides and equipment via accurate completion of the stock control register.

It's important that you look after council issued IT equipment by ensuring batteries are sufficiently charged and devices switched on and operating correctly throughout working hours, and keep the vehicles you use clean, tidy and maintained in accordance with the instructions issued by our vehicle fleet management team. You’ll also be required to participate in the call-out roster for emergencies outside of normal working hours, and assist with other, non-recurring duties that are appropriate to your role.

Please refer to the Job Description for more information. 

About You:

With an RSPH Level 2 in Pest Management or its equivalent, you’ll have experience of operational pest control and the ability to use a wide variety of information systems and technology. Capable of planning, delivering and coordinating projects and your own workload, you’ll have a strong customer focus and be friendly, approachable and empathetic.

A confident communicator, you’ll be ready to work unsupervised in accordance with agreed programmes, and possess the ability to write concise reports and keep written and computerised records of case work. In addition, we’ll expect you to have a strong understanding of and commitment to working safely.

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.

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’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster 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 the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit  https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

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.

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