Senior Environmental Health Officer

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Job description

Senior Environmental Health Officer
Skelmersdale
My client is recruiting for a Senior Environmental Health Officer based within the local Authority in Skelmersdale and the surrounding area.

Responsibilities

• To provide specialist professional competencies across several regulatory areas of Environmental Protection and Private Sector Housing
• To ensure, as far as possible, that appropriate environmental protection safeguards are applied, to ensure pollution does not adversely affect people's health or the environment.
• To assist in developing the Council's Environmental Protection functions, including providing specialist advice and support to other colleagues and other important stakeholders such as the Planning and Licensing teams.
• To act as a professional lead in relation to relevant Environmental Protection and Private Sector Housing regulatory work areas including: - Noise and acoustics and other nuisance - Air quality - Contaminated land - Pollution Prevention and Control (industrial emissions
• To respond to complaints and inspect premises/land under all relevant Environmental Health and Public Health legislation, having regard to agreed procedures, work instructions and Codes of Practice; to advise on standards and take appropriate enforcement action (including serving notices, producing prosecution files and appearing in court) as necessary.
• To be a lead officer in relation to contaminated land, interpret and apply the legislation as appropriate and proactively engage with the Planning process in relation to contaminated land matters
• To be a lead officer in relation to noise and acoustics including conducting appropriate monitoring, interpreting results and issuing professional advice. Specifically, to liaise with the Planning and Licensing Teams, applicants and other

Requirements

• knowledge and qualifications BSc/MSc Degree in Environmental Health or the Diploma in Environmental Health or their equivalent and registration by the EHORB
• Full driving licence and use of own car
• Ability to analyse, interpret and apply complex legislation, technical guidance and data and disseminate this in various written and verbal reporting formats for a range of audiences
• Excellent IT and technology skills

Contract

• Initial 3 to 6 month ongoing contract with the opportunity to extend
• PAYE via Umbrella
• Monday to Friday
• 9am to 5pm
• Flexible office based work

As the role is Local Authority based candidates will be asked to complete an onboarding & compliance checks including DBS & Online training modules prior to starting.
for immediate consideration please apply

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