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Contract Type : Permanent Salary:Grade H. Scale 29 - £38,626 to Scale 34 - £43,693 with a professional bar at SCP 31 £40,476** Hours Per Week:36 hours Base Location:Tame Street Depot, Tame Street, Stalybridge, SK15 1ST Assessment Date : To be arranged To apply for this role please upload your CV together with a supporting statement that provides evidence of how you meet the essential requirements of the person specification. Please also include details of your education and training, employment history, and any reference to your qualifications that are specified on the person specification within your CV/supporting statement. The RoleAn exciting opportunity has arisen for an Environmental Health Officer to join the Public Protection Team at Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council. As an Environmental Health Officer, you will be instrumental in achieving both our proactive and reactive work programmes. You will work alongside an experienced group of officers who are knowledgeable, dedicated, hardworking and ever keen to protect the public whilst exploring innovative ways of providing a sustainable regulatory service, across a wide range of services in food hygiene, health and safety, infectious disease, investigation of complaints and accidents and to enforce other statutory provisions and provide relevant advice. Our ideal candidate will have completed their Environmental Health Practitioner Portfolio and be a CIEH registered Environmental Health Practitioner. You will have a thorough understanding or previous experience of working in food safety, health and safety and infectious disease control. To succeed in this role, you will have an approachable manner, excellent communication skills and the ability to independently prioritise your workload. The ability to inspect high-risk and complex food processes incorporating knowledge of food standards would also be desirable. This multi-disciplinary role requires a committed and flexible officer to contribute to delivering the team's wide range of functions. The successful candidate will be expected to carry out a variety of duties in a timely and effective manner while maintaining general confidentiality in all areas relating to the work of the Council. About YouYou must have an Environmental Health Degree/Diploma, ideally with previous recent work experience in Environmental Health disciplines, and believe that you can make a valued contribution to our service. You must be able to work effectively and flexibly as part of a team and to prioritise and manage personal workloads. About UsCome shape the future of Tameside with us! At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high-quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities. We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. ** This post is classified as being in a professional job category. As such, the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting specific criteria. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above, AND Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND Professional standards practiced to the highest expected level. This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English. Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria. Reference Number : 000870#J-18808-Ljbffr