Environmental Health Officer SEHO (Commercial)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Environmental Health Officer to join our ambitious and progressive Shared Environmental Health Partnership at Mole Valley and Tandridge District Councils and be a valued member of a friendly and professional team.

The role in the Commercial Team offers a wide range of challenges, and opportunities to make a difference and contribute to the success of our shared service, whilst developing your own knowledge and management experience.

The successful candidate will enjoy a range of duties, focusing on the inspection of food businesses in all risk categories, including a number of approved establishments, the participation in sampling programmes, as well as the inspection of workplaces and the completion of nationally and locally agreed targeted health and safety projects. In addition, there will be the opportunity to contribute to the risk assessment and monitoring of private water supplies, the investigation of infectious disease cases, together with playing a key role in supporting the service's primary authority partnership agreements with several high-profile businesses.

Achieving all this will require flexibility, enthusiasm, good organisation skills and an interest in and knowledge of the topics involved. The role will involve working closely with colleagues, business proprietors and elected members and so will require excellent customer service and communication skills.

The ideal candidate will be qualified and experienced, holding a BSc or MSc in Environmental Health and/or having successfully completed one of the pathways recognised by the CIEH to being a Registered Food Safety Practitioner.

Experience of promoting compliance through both a supportive as well as a staged approach to enforcement would be an advantage, as would a good working knowledge of current legislation.

The post holder will manage her/his own caseload of food safety, health and safety at work-related inspections, interventions and investigation of infectious disease, as well as service requests received from members of the public relating to commercial premises. To exercise all powers for which the post holder is authorised and which are associated with the allocated duties of the post.

If you are excited by this opportunity, are highly organised, positive and have a commercial awareness that allows you to develop excellent business opportunities and relationships, we would love to hear from you.

We're less about you driving to work and more about driving down our carbon footprint (meeting our pledge to be carbon neutral by 2030).

Our hybrid working policy offers many employees the opportunity to work from home up to three days a week should they wish (pro rata for part time working).

In support of our people and our Climate Change Strategy, we welcome hybrid working and are happy to talk flexible working too, where appropriate to the role. There are some roles where hybrid and/or flexible working may not be possible, particularly where we need to be responsive to meet the needs of our residents and businesses.

As well as working in a beautiful part of the country, amongst the Surrey Hills, further benefits will include flexible working, casual user car allowance, generous leave entitlement, the opportunity to complete additional training and personal development and payment of your CIEH membership fees.