Enforcement Officer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 09 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £32,858 to £38,272 per year |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | National: £32,858 - £34,586 London: £36,583 - £38,272 |
| Oriau: | Full time |
| Dyddiad cau: | 26 May 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | TW11 0JZ |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Permanent |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 342452/2 |
Crynodeb
Do you care about the safety of products and want to protect people and places? Can we use your skills, knowledge, and experience to enable UK business to thrive? If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you!
We are the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), part of the Department for Business & Trade. We are here for the purpose of making regulation work to deliver real world impact. Regulation is a powerful Government tool to address market failures, influence behaviour and promote positive action. Crafted and delivered well, regulation can be an enabler of growth, innovation, and efficiency.
Since early 2018 we have been building a positive and creative team that enjoys a position of influence and respect within an organisation that continues to grow, most recently with the addition of construction products regulation planned.
Our primary purpose is to protect people and places from product-related harm, ensuring consumers and businesses can buy and sell products with confidence.
Further information can be found on our website here.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles. We embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. There is a guaranteed interview scheme (DCS) for people with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
We are Inclusive.
We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible and recognise how important inclusivity is to achieve the best outcomes. We hope to attract applications from all underrepresented groups.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation if required to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Our Team
The Online and Supply Chain Enforcement Team regulates the full supply chain, from ports and borders through to online marketplaces, fulfilment houses and third-party sellers. We are responsible for ensuring that shopping online will be as safe as shopping on the high street.
We have enforcement roles available in all three of our Enforcement Teams. Please state in your application if you have a preference. Successful candidates will be assigned to a team based on business need.
Please be aware, all roles are potentially deployable to other teams dependent on organisational and risk priorities.
Ports and Borders Team
No two days are the same, working in the Ports & Borders Team. We are committed to preventing unsafe and non-compliant products entering the UK supply chain.
Our team delivers a programme of activity in which we look for innovative ways of finding the right intervention points to stop bad actors within the supply chain. This can include deployments to ports, proactively monitoring fulfilment centres and inland activity, and targeting resources to deal with prolific offenders. We work with a range of regulators including Local Authorities, Border Force, and HMRC. Our latest activity is preventing unsafe and non-compliant ebike’s, escooter’s, and conversion kits entering the UK supply chain.
Online Enforcement
Online Enforcement is a fast-paced team; we select and test purchase high risk products which are being sold online. We get non-compliant products removed from sale, and monitor how well Online Marketplaces are fulfilling their obligations, enabling OPSS to hold them to account. We also explore new approaches to regulation and enforcement in the Online space enforcing the removal of unsafe products.
Incidents and Investigations
Incidents and Investigations Team takes the enforcement lead on high profile investigations in the Product Safety space. We also deal with nationally declared product safety Incidents. We take immediate corrective action to protect people and places, and carrying out detailed investigation to determine the appropriate enforcement action and/or sanctions.
All Teams
We want to hear from candidates who, having completed a Level 4 Regulatory Compliance Officer Apprenticeship or equivalent qualifications who are keen to build a career in enforcement. We offer a wide-ranging development package including the opportunity to complete a CTSI Product Safety Certificate and in house learning and development. Our OPSS enforcement team is growing, and there are plenty of opportunities for people committed to developing their investigation and enforcement skills to advance.
Job Description/Key Accountabilities
- Undertake both proactive and reactive enforcement casework to ensure products placed on the UK market are compliant.
- Take the lead on your own enforcement investigations and provide support to multi-officer investigations.
- Create, maintain, and manage communication with businesses, trade bodies and other organisations, as appropriate to your regulatory area, to deliver clear, supportive, and effective advice.
- Develop specialist knowledge in your regulatory area, to help provide the national enforcement perspective to OPSS colleagues in different teams, policy sponsors (where applicable) and other partner agencies.
- Undertake regulatory activities in accordance with the Regulators’ Code and OPSS’ Enforcement Policy.
- Review market information, technical files, and other documentation across a range of legislation, handling material to the evidential standard where appropriate.
- Actively build and maintain relationships across teams within Enforcement and across the office to identify opportunities to add value to your work.
- Actively develop yourself as regulator and enforcement officer; with your team, identify and explore innovative ways to increase our regulatory capability and our positive impact, and develop OPSS as an exemplar regulator.