Head of Environmental Health & Public Protection
About The Role
- Providing strategic leadership across environmental health, community safety and public protection services
- Ensuring both councils meet their statutory responsibilities relating to environmental health and crime and disorder
- Shaping and delivering policies, procedures and service improvements to drive effective, compliant and high-quality services
- Leading partnership work to tackle crime, anti-social behaviour and wider community safety challenges Promoting prevention and early intervention, working across services to improve public health outcomes
- Overseeing integrated, person-centred approaches to support vulnerable residents Leading South Ribble’s response to the climate emergency, including delivery of the Climate Change Strategy and action plan
- Managing and developing key operational services, including pest control across both councils and animal welfare in Chorley Building strong relationships to deliver joined-up, impactful outcomes across both boroughs
- A qualified and experienced leader with a strong background in environmental health, regulatory services or public protection
- Proven success managing teams and services, with the ability to think strategically and deliver results across organisational boundaries
- An inspiring leader who can set direction, motivate others and lead through change in a complex environment Confident handling complex, sensitive issues and making sound decisions under pressure
- Skilled in building partnerships and delivering programmes with internal and external stakeholders
- Resilient, adaptable and able to navigate ambiguity while driving continuous improvement
- 36 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
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.