Principal Regulatory Services Officer - Port Health
| Posting date: | 06 April 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 May 2024 |
| Location: | Portsmouth, PO12 1EB |
| Company: | Portsmouth City Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 2712 |
Summary
Principal Regulatory Services Port Health Officer (Port Health)
Salary: Band 10, £40,220 - £44,428 + 17% shift allowance
Contract: Permanent
37 hours per week, shift pattern (including weekend and out of hours shift allowance)
Location: Portsmouth International Port
Full Driving Licence is required.
Closing time/date: 10th May 2024 at 23:59
What is the Portsmouth International Port?
Portsmouth City Council controls all its maritime activities through the Port Service. Portsmouth International Port (PIP) comprises the Cruise & Ferry Port (CFP), Flathouse and Albert Johnson Quays and the Camber.
Your New Role
The Principal Port Health Officer is the senior investigator, regulator, and decision maker of the Regulatory Services team. You will be responsible for the delivery of regulatory actions in the Port Health team delivering the authority's enhanced Port Health functions upon the implementation of the new Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) in 2024, dealing with consignments entering the UK through Portsmouth International Port.
Your role as the Principal Port Health Officer will see you being responsible for the organisation, and the delivery of timely reactive and proactive interventions and disposals in accordance with statutory obligations at the Portsmouth International Port Border Control Post. Additionally, your role will lead the Port Health team through the application of best practice advice from government, national institutions, and regional expert working groups.
Working extremely closely with Official Veterinarians and a team of other officers, you will be responsible for delivering compliance with the law in the most appropriate manner. You will demonstrate this successfully in the shortest possible timeframe, whilst ensuring high regard is given to the entire range of sanctions and best practices and remaining in compliance with the law themselves.
The ability to operate in a flexible working environment is essential, as the role requires participation in regular shift pattern work required to meet the service demand of roll-on-roll-off (RORO) shipments from the EU eighteen hours a day 365 days a year.
What you'll need to succeed
You will have the ability to balance prescriptive proactive regulatory regimes with those relating to reactive responses to complaints and/or breaches of legislation, and service demands at the port. You will need to consider this together with gathering intelligence on and assessing criminal activities, or noncompliance, through information received from third parties. The success of your actions requires a predisposition to manage the Port Health function within a challenging environment.
You will be required to hold one of the following:
- a degree in environmental health or a relevant professional qualification such as:
- The Higher Certificate in Food Control
- Diploma/Higher Diploma in Consumer Affairs and Trading Standards with food service delivery module*
(*able to prove compliance with elements of the necessary competence framework as defined by the Food Law code of Practice FLcOP)
Please read the job profile for the full details of this role
What you'll get in return
We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:
- Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
- A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
- Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
- Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme
- Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme
- Discounts on a wide range of goods and services – access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.
Staff rewards: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/working-for-the-council/
A commitment to our values
We are committed to our values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity and being people-focussed. These values set out how we can contribute to the success of the council and our own success as individuals. Learn more about our values and behaviours.
Application process:
Please read the full job profile (click here) for further details on the post to ensure your application matches the requirements of the role stated in the who is the person. When completing the application form, please thoroughly tailor your application to the 'Who is the Person' points with the use of examples from your experience and attach this as a cover letter in the Supporting Documents section.
If you have any questions, or would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact the John.Skinner@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
Closing time/date: 10th May 2024 at 23:59
Interview date/s: suitable candidates will be contacted before the close date and invited to interviews.
We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.
We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.
You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.
Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact Recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
All employees and third parties working at the Portsmouth International Port are subject to a Substance Misuse - Drug & Alcohol Testing Policy and the Port reserves the right to carry out with cause and random testing.
Your contractual hours are 37 per week, which are to be worked in accordance with the flexible working hours' scheme and the needs of the Service. The role will require some evening and weekend working.
We look forward to speaking with you soon. Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk