Experience relating to enforcement or ensuring compliance with legislation
Experience working as a qualified Environmental Health Officer although applicants due to sit exams in the upcoming REHIS Professional Exam diet will be welcomed. (Desirable)
Demonstrate a broad understanding of current issues in local government are essential.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to negotiate where necessary. This should also include the ability to work in a team, demonstrating leadership skills where necessary and pass on knowledge and experience to other officers in order to further their own development and prepare reports for possible prosecution and for project summaries.
Demonstrated effective communications in a range of circumstances and audiences is essential including situations where acceptance is sought for difficult messages, and where a diverse range of views is held.
The requirement to have a detailed knowledge of relevant legislation, guidance, codes of practice and have
Demonstrated ability and experience in providing leadership, supervision, advice and support to staff groups, colleagues, and customers in the delivery of outcomes and objectives.
The post holder must have excellent interpretive and problem solving skills, in order to assess complex legal terms/judgements/arguments and apply them to the situation in hand, arriving at solutions.
The post holder must have excellent investigatory skills, the ability to investigate creatively and be able to identify the necessary evidence in whatever medium it may present itself.
Well-developed organisational skills and ability to use a range of computer packages and databases to a competent standard including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Must exhibit a good degree if IT knowledge and skills, to the extent that it is necessary for performance
Educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant professional discipline.
Environmental Health Officers must hold an appropriate professional qualification, as defined under UK and EU legislation, to be an Environmental Health Officer. Membership of a relevant professional body is desirable e.g. Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland, Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, or equivalent.
Must have specialist knowledge in a range of environmental health disciplines including a high degree of legal understanding and interpretation
Possession of additional specific qualifications to support and enforce these disciplines is desirable (Desirable)
Able to meet targets and performance indicators.
Undertake project work, including planning, delivery and managing timescales.
Provide advice to business, the public, partner agencies and public bodies.
Have a driving licence

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