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Regional Tobacco Officer for the Trading Standards South East partnership

Employed by Kent County Council

Part Time (22.2 Hours a week) with hybrid/home working.

£32,485 - £36,693 (Pro Rata)

Are you highly motivated and enthusiastic? Could you provide leadership, support, and coordination for 16 Trading Standards services across the Southeast to disrupt the supply of illegal tobacco? Could you develop how these services deliver enforcement action so that it is consistent?

If so, then this is the job opportunity for you.

In this role you will be building on existing practices to organise a programme of intelligence-based work through the 16 Trading Standards Services within the partnership to maximise the outcomes from disruption activity.

You will guided by a member of the Trading Standards South East (TSSE) Board and supported by the central TSSE team and Focus Group, calling on your own background of enforcement experience, to manage the project. You will be regularly liaising with other colleagues and partner agencies across the South East including presenting your recommendations and strategies, so you must have excellent communication and IT skills.

The post holder will work remotely for most of the time and must be able to travel across the 19 Local authorities as needed, for intelligence gathering and enforcement.

This is a post hosted by Kent County Council, and currently funded for 18 months but may be subject to extension.

You will be employed in this part time role by Kent County Council, which offers significant benefits including:

• Remote and flexible working,
• Paid Chartered Trading Standards Institute membership,
• A commitment to continual professional development and training
• Support from the dedicated Consumer and Public Safety Team, as well as the Service in general.

To be shortlisted for interview you will need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the person specification in the Job Description. This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Check

If you would like to have an informal discussion on any of the aspects of the job, please call Oliver Jewell on 03000 414137.

Interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams. Full details on how this will work will be sent to you if your application is successfully shortlisted.

Working for Kent County Council - Values and Culture

Kent Values:

• We are brave. We do the right thing; we accept and offer challenge.
• We are curious to innovate and improve.
• We are compassionate, understanding, and respectful to all.
• We are strong together by sharing knowledge.
• We are all responsible for the difference we make.

Our values enable us to build a culture that is:

• Compassionate & inclusive
• Working together – building and delivering for the best interests of KCC
• Externally focused – residents, families, and communities at the heart of decision making.
• Flexible/agile – willing to take (calculated) risks.
• Empowering – our people take accountability for their decisions and actions.
• Curious – constantly learning and evolving.

Trading Standards South East (TSSE), is a Partnership of 19 local authorities, namely Brighton & Hove, Buckinghamshire & Surrey, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Medway, Milton Keynes, Oxford, Portsmouth, Windsor & Maidenhead, Reading, Bracknell Forest & West Berkshire (Public Protection Partnership) Wokingham, Slough, Southampton & West Sussex.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Oliver Jewell, 03000 414137 [email protected]

Steve Rock 03000 4141137 [email protected]

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.