Senior Environmental Health Officer WCC618882

Job Details:

Salary range: £41,580 - £55,710 per annum 
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36 
Contract type: Permanent  
Closing date: 19 January 2025
Contact details for Informal discussion: Matt Willetts, Team Leader, via email: MWILLETTS@WESTMINSTER.GOV.UK 

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE POWER OF EMPOWERMENT.

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

Natasha started her career in the NHS. She came to Westminster to do more for vulnerable people. When a family in her community reached out to her after their heating was cut off, Natasha took their situation seriously. Living in terrible conditions, and reaching desperation, they had nowhere else to turn. Natasha stepped in, holding the landlord to account and getting them to improve conditions for the family. These are the moments that make her the proudest. Now, she uses her expertise and experience to empower others.

The Role:

As Senior Environmental Health Officer, you can make your own powerful contribution to ensuring everyone in Westminster can thrive in a clean, safe and quiet city. What’s more, you’ll play a vital role in helping junior colleagues to develop their careers. If you’re keen to use your experience not only to keep doing good for communities, but also to help the next generation of environmental health professionals to thrive, then Westminster is the place for you. As well as taking the lead on your own complex cases, you’ll mentor and support junior officers, using your own cases as live training opportunities. 

In this role, you’ll draw on all your specialist technical skills and knowledge to champion health and wellbeing across a range of high profile cases, while guiding and supporting newer officers to follow in your footsteps. We’ll look to you to develop, implement and enforce environmental health policies and legislation in a range of ways – from inspections and engagement, through to education and enforcement. You’ll also support the Principal Officer in developing and delivering training and quality monitoring systems, and you’ll get involved in projects to achieve process and service improvements. 

Please refer to the Job Description and our Environmental Health site for more information

About You:

To join us, you’ll need relevant qualifications plus a proven track record of post-qualification experience. You are used to managing cases and handling complex, high profile and political environmental health complaints, both in person and in writing. You’ve honed excellent communication, relationship building and conflict management skills by working with a range of agencies and professionals, and with diverse members of the public. You take pride in your ability to provide exceptional customer service and deliver real improvements to public health through education, influencing and appropriate intervention. Keen to share your passion and experience with new officers and apprentices, you’ll thrive in our team. 

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.