security officer Woodbridge, England
Job description
- East Suffolk Council, Melton, East Suffolk House or Riverside, Lowestoft
- £44,539 - £48,587 per annum
- 37 hours per week
- Permanent
- Payment of professional subscription fees
- Essential car user allowance
East Suffolk Council is an exciting place to work and a great place to make a real difference to people’s lives, delivering vital services to a quarter of a million people across East Suffolk.
We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the East Suffolk Council's forward thinking and ambitious Food and Safety Team as one of two Lead Food and Safety Officers, to provide technical specialist support and advice to the team. Technically competent at the highest level, you will have significant and extensive regulatory experience within food and workplace health and safety enforcement.
The work will be varied and the responsibilities as a Lead Food and Safety Officer will include a wide range of advisory and regulatory activities covering food safety, occupational health and safety, infectious disease control and port health. You will help implement our current food and health & safety service plan and play a key role in developing our future plans. Reporting to the Food and Safety Manager, you will have line management responsibilities within the team.
You will deliver continuous improvement in processes and practices within the Food and Safety Team and across the wider organisation to support the rapidly changing environment. You will have strong leadership skills and a wealth of professional knowledge and technical expertise in all areas plus technical competence working within an enforcement role. You will need to be a strategic thinker with excellent negotiation and communication skills.
Why work for us?
East Suffolk Council is a great place to work and there are lots of benefits our employees can access. To find out more about why we are so proud of East Suffolk Council, take a look at our video and hear why our employees think it is such a great place to work.
Here are some of the main benefits:
- Great opportunities for training and development
- Generous leave entitlement (equivalent to 25 days a year, increasing to 31 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays)
- Local government pension scheme
- Free car parking (for when you are working in the office)
- Discounts on mobile phones, computers, holiday and travel, fashion and clothing, health and beauty and many other products and services.
Please see our benefits brochure for further information.
The majority of our teams are working in an agile way, with a mixture of home and office working, depending on individual preferences and service requirements. If you wish to discuss how that might impact your working arrangements if you were the successful candidate, please contact the recruiting manager listed at the bottom of this advert.
For an informal discussion regarding this post, please contact Christine Walker on 07717 426890 or V Johnston on 07770 583246.
Closing date: 9am 24 July 2023
Interview date: 7 August 2023
How to apply
Step 1 - Read the advert and the Job Description and Person Specification
Step 2 - Complete the Supporting Statement template. Your statement needs to indicate how you meet each of the criteria contained within the Person Specification. Please use the template provided (other formats will not be accepted).
Step 3 - Complete the online application and upload your statement. Please note, CV’s are not accepted.
For more information, check out the How to Apply section of our Career Site.
