Environmental Health Manager
About The Role
Are you a driven and experienced Environmental Health professional ready to lead a high-performing team? We’re looking for an Environmental Health Manager to play a key leadership role in delivering vital public protection services and improving environmental standards across our communities.
This is an exciting opportunity to shape service delivery, influence strategy, and make a real difference to public health, housing, and environmental quality.
What you’ll be getting up to
- Leading and supporting the Environmental Health team to deliver a high-quality, customer-focused service
- Overseeing a wide-ranging service covering housing, public health, food safety, environmental protection and community safety
- Managing day-to-day operations, ensuring workloads are prioritised and performance targets are met
- Making informed decisions on enforcement action and overseeing complex investigations and legal cases
- Providing expert advice on planning, licensing and environmental impacts
- Driving service improvements and delivering projects aligned to corporate priorities
- Managing budgets, resources and external contractors to ensure value for money
- Working closely with partners to safeguard vulnerable residents and support wider community outcomes
Who we’re looking for
- A qualified Environmental Health professional with strong technical knowledge
- Proven leadership experience with the ability to motivate and develop a team
- Confident in managing enforcement activity and complex casework
- A strong communicator with sound judgement and a proactive, solutions-focused approach
- Committed to delivering high standards and making a positive impact in local communities
Our Benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (and Christmas shutdown)
- Hybrid/agile working from day one
- Local Government pension
- Healthcare Cash Plan for cash back on health treatments
- Cashback website access for savings on brands you love
- Volunteering days
- Free parking
Many of our colleagues work flexibly for us. We’re always open to conversations around different working arrangements. If you’re interested in part-time, compressed hours or any other working arrangement, please get in touch with us through the “Contact Us” form on our careers website.
About Us
Chorley Council is dedicated to providing first-class services and promoting the well-being of the local community. Our staff are our greatest resource, at the heart of everything we do, and are crucial to the delivery of excellent services for our residents. At Chorley Council, we’re always striving to make our borough the best to live, work and visit.
Working Together
We share a number of our services with South Ribble Borough Council. This allows for improved resilience across both councils and provides numerous benefits to our operations. Whilst some staff and back-end processes are shared between the Councils, both Councils still retain sovereignty and have separate strategies and corporate plans.
Additional information
Applicants are advised to apply early. We reserve the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date.
Equal Opportunities
We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to the elimination of unfair and unlawful discrimination and prejudice in all our policies, procedures, and practices.
We’re committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process, please contact us via the "Contact Us" page on our website.
If you are disabled or your last employer was the armed forces, and you meet all the essential criteria of a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.