Environmental Health Officer / Regulatory Services Officer

Following a recent Service review and internal promotions, we have an excellent opportunity for an Environmental Health Officer or Regulatory Services Officer to join our team, working in a beautiful part of Scotland with a diverse and interesting workload. Operating from the Lochgilphead office, you will undertake the full range of environmental health enforcement, including public health and food safety. There will be a requirement to manage your own district workload (which may include travel and work on our islands, including Islay, Jura and Gigha), whilst protecting our residents and visitors' public health and supporting businesses. We will provide you with varied workload in all areas of environmental health, flexible working and hybrid home/office arrangements, a relocation package (where appropriate) and a salary of £40,914 to £44,272. We also pay annual membership to the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (REHIS) and encourage Chartered membership of REHIS
through continued professional development . For further information on living and working in Argyll and Bute, please access the website abplace2b.scot, and for further information on the work of any EHO, please see this Environmental Health Officer Information Video

Recognising the national shortage of Environmental Health Officers, the post may be filled as a Regulatory Services Officer (Salary £35786 - £39819). We would be interested to receive applications from graduates who are authorised food safety enforcement, officers holding the Higher Certificate in Food Hygiene/Food Control, the Higher Certificate in Food Practice, or those who are working as an environmental health enforcement officer in a local authority. If appointed at the RSO level in additional to undertaking the work of this role, you will be supported to complete a development program to attain the post graduate REHIS Diploma in Environmental Health and to progress to an Environmental Health Officer. You will service which has a strong culture of "growing our own" and successful supporting staff to attain additional qualifications and promotion within the Council.