Environmental Health Officer

Place

Public Protection, Environmental Health

Career Graded Environmental Health Officer

Ref: 001540

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £34,434 - £47,181 per annum (Grade 6-8)

Hours: 36.66 per wek

Location: Sir Robert Peacock House, Vulcan Street, Oldham, OL1 4LA

Hiring Manager: Lauren Wood (lauren.wood@oldham.gov.uk)

Closing Date: Sunday 21 June 2026

Interview Dates: TBC.

Role Overview:

We are looking to appoint an Environmental Health Officer to carry out the Food Safety/Standards and Health and Safety functions within the service. This is a career graded role so the candidate can either be a Graduate Environmental Health Officer or an experienced Environmental Health Officer specialising in Food Safety.

Experienced Food Environmental Health Officers need to be a registered Environmental Health Practitioner with the Chartered Institute for Environmental Health and need to be suitably qualified in accordance with the Food Law Code of Practice to do the food specialism.

Graduate Environmental Health Officers need to be on a pathway to achieve professional registration.

You will work in the Commercial Team carrying out Food and Health and Safety duties.

Key Responsibilities:

• To carry out programmed food hygiene and food standards inspections in accordance with the Food Law Code of Practice
• To apply and enforce the requirements of premises subject to approval
• To carry out food sampling and investigations
• Working with stakeholders such as UKHSA to investigate infectious disease notifications
• To investigate Food and/or Health and Safety complaints/service requests or accident reports
• To administer a range of interventions and enforcement sanctions in line with statute and council policies and processes
• To undertake work to investigate breaches of legislation, in accordance with the Police and Criminal Evidence Act

Key Requirements:

To succeed in this role, you will need as a minimum:

• A degree in Environmental Health
• Good knowledge of Food Hygiene, Food Standards and Health and Safety legislation and its application.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are required to effectively advise and support senior colleagues and businesses.
• Excellent organisational skills will be needed to manage a diverse and busy workload.

About Us:

We want Oldham to have vibrant, safe neighbourhoods where people are proud to live with opportunities for healthier, more fulfilled lives; and a sustainable, thriving economy. As we look to the future, the challenges may be significant, but so are the opportunities. We’ve identified three missions with our residents and partners, focusing on what will deliver the biggest impact:

A Great Place to Live, Healthier, Happier Lives, and Green and Growing.

We’re looking for candidates who will support us to achieve our ambitions and we encourage you to download our Corporate Plan: Ready for the Future and our Oldham Plan for further information.

Our Values and Behaviours:

By driving innovation, investing in our people, and championing our communities, we will ensure that Oldham continues to be a place where everyone can live their best life. To support this, we have three core values which define who we are and how we operate. These are ‘Proud, Ambitious, and Together’, and they shape our culture, inform our decisions, and inspire us to deliver on our commitments to the people of Oldham.

We have translated these values into five behaviours which guide our actions and are the standards we hold ourselves to, day in and day out:

• Work with a resident focus
• Support local leaders
• Committed to the borough
• Delivery high performance
• Take ownership and drive change

You can find out more about our values and behaviours on our greater.jobs Oldham page

Our Benefits Package:

At Oldham Council we offer a great benefits package for our employees, which includes the following:

• 25 days annual leave which increases after 5 and 10-years’ service
• The option to purchase additional annual leave.
• An attractive LGPS benefit pension scheme with the option to make shared cost additional voluntary contributions.
• Discounted gym membership with Oldham Active.
• Staff discount scheme for shopping, entertainment, eating-out, eating-in, travel, motoring and more.
• Salary sacrifice scheme for home and electronics and Cycle to Work.
• Wellbeing support, including a Mental Health First Aider network and an Employment Assistance Programme that provides 24 hours access to advice and support.
• Staff recognition and celebration events.
• Peer support groups

Inclusive Recruitment:

We work closely with employees to help them work at their best, including making adjustments such as flexible working, describing available working patterns, providing equipment or making changes to the workplace.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and therefore expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

If you have lived or worked abroad for 3 months or more in the last 5 years or 12 months or more (whether continuously or in total) in the last 10 years whilst aged 18 or over, please refer to the link below for details for how to obtain your Certificates of Good Character. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application.

If you’re an applicant with disabilities and have previously been in or currently in care, a carer, someone who has served in the Armed Forces, or you’ve participated in the GM Elevate Programme, and you meet the essential criteria of the role, you are guaranteed to reach the first stage of assessment under our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme.

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Important Information:

Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for a current employee at risk of redundancy, it can be pulled back at any point, up to the post being formally offered to a candidate who is not at risk of redundancy.

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