Environmental Health Officer

Job description:

The main duties forming the scope of the EHO’s work may be grouped under the following headings:- Food control, hygiene education, water monitoring, tobacco, housing, air pollution, noise, infectious diseases, pest control, poisons regulations, childcare.
Responsibilities:

• Visiting business premises to investigate levels of cleanliness and health standards.
• Investigating complaints, cases of food poisoning, or pest infestations and arranging for legal proceedings to be taken against serious offenders.
• Running courses on health and safety.
• Monitoring of fluoridation of public water supplies.
• Ensuring that defective privately rented houses are made fit for habitation.
• Measuring and controlling the air pollution from commercial and industrial sources.
• Investigating cases of serious infectious diseases.
• inspecting pre-school services such as playgroups, to ensure that the specified health standards are achieved.
• Monitoring food imports from non EU countries.
• Keeping abreast of legislation, writing reports and liaising with other safety team members.

Skills and qualities

• Commitment to safeguarding public health.
• Enthusiasm and attention to detail at all times.
• Good communication skills to explain safety procedures and regulations clearly and concisely.
• A calm, professional manner to defuse potential confrontations along with the ability to deal with people who are distressed or angry.
• Good negotiating skills, patience and tact.
• Ability to enforce the law where necessary.
• good organisational skills to prepare cases using own evidence and chemical analyses

Benefits:

• Lots of travelling
• Personal Development
• Sponsored trainings outside the country
• Lifestyle treament

Qualified and interested candidates to forward resume to: [email protected]or[email protected] within two weeks of this publication.