Are you passionate about safeguarding Staffordshire's businesses, residents, and visitors from fraudulent and illegal activities? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our professional Trading Standards team. Our focus is on creating a safe, sustainable, and legal marketplace in Staffordshire that supports businesses, people, and communities. The Trading Standards service has responsibility for the enforcement of regulation across a wide variety of legislation. The service aims to prevent harm and/or financial loss to consumers by working with business to ensure compliance and a fair-trading environment.Main Responsibility All our officers contribute to the broader work of the service, including investigations, animal health and welfare, protecting vulnerable consumers, and supporting sports ground safety. You will work across various trading standards areas; this post will focus on:

• Product safety
• Underage sales
• Licensing (alcohol, explosives, and petroleum)
• Food standards and fair trading
• Business advice
  
  You will have:
• enforcement experience and preferably hold a trading standards qualification (DCA, RCO Apprenticeship, or similar, ideally with recognised competence in Food Standards)
We also welcome applications from part-qualified candidates with relevant enforcement experience. We offer support for continuing personal training and development towards full qualification or equivalent. We are also looking for someone who:
• has a demonstrable breadth of experience across trading standards areas of work
• has a clear understanding of the principles of balanced enforcement including risk assessments and proportionality
• Has good and Effective communications skills
• has working knowledge of Microsoft Office, databases and Outlook
You should be able to travel efficiently across Staffordshire and have a flexible approach to out-of-hours and weekend working, including participation in an out-of-hours rota.

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively. Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy: We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future. We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too. Our benefits: We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance. In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire