Environmental Health Manager

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About The Role

Role: Environmental Health Manager
Location: Chorley
Contract: Full time (36.25 hours per week) / Permanent
Salary: £47,754 - £48,710 plus 6% car allowance
Closing Date: 8 December 2024

Chorley Council work very closely with South Ribble Council, and the successful candidate will support the Shared South Ribble & Chorley Head Of Public Protection and Environmental Health to deliver the Environmental Health function in Chorley. We are looking for an experienced Environmental Health Manager to look after our dedicated generic Environmental Health Officers, covering Private sector housing, Food safety enforcement, Environmental Protection and Health and Safety enforcement.

The team work very closely with Public Protection team who deliver the Council Community Safety function. As an experienced manager you will be responsible for allocating and monitoring service requests, working closely with the food safety lead for the team to deliver the food safety program, delivering corporate projects as and when required, managing financial systems ensuring that Environmental Health corporate risks are adequately controlled and ensuring the health and safety of your colleagues.

Chorley is a busy vibrant market town but also covers some stunning rural areas and this position will suit someone with senior or management experience.

What you'll be getting up to

• To coordinate the inspection programme, allocation of case work and service requests and ensure the completion of projects and both team and individual performance targets through 121s and performance appraisals.
• You'll be responsible for the day to day running of the Environmental Health Team and for their own workload and carry out duties in response to customer enquiries, inspection programmes and service requests carry out inspections, investigations, enforcement of legislation, service of statutory notices, co-ordination of works in default of notices, prosecution proceedings, interventions, initiatives and education.

Who we're looking for

• You'll have (or be working towards) the certificate of registration of the Environmental Health Officers Registration Board
• Someone with experience of managing projects and contracts to ensure deliver value for money and achieve outcomes
• Previous experience of managing staff in an environmental health or regulatory setting
• Operational experience in Environmental Health or Food / Occupational Health and Safety in a Local Authority environment
• Someone with knowledge of current Environmental Health issues affecting the borough including regulations, and standards

Other requirements

• This role requires some travel around our boroughs. You should have a valid driving licence or the equivalent mobility.

Our Benefits

• 25 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
• Car Allowance

Many of our colleagues work flexibly for us. We're always open to conversations around different working arrangements. If you're interested in part-time, compressed hours or any other working arrangement, please get in touch with us through the "Contact Us" form on our careers website.

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.