Chemicals Adviser
| Posting date: | 03 February 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £34,254 to £39,994 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £34,254 - £36, 142; London: £38, 138 - £39, 994 + £5,150 GSE allowance |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 February 2025 |
| Location: | B4 6BS |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 387227/1 |
Summary
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 (Previously the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy). 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.
The Role and Our Team:
The team
The Science Team provides access to robust and relevant scientific advice and novel research for the development of policy, and the delivery and enforcement of product safety regulations across the OPSS remit, including toys, cosmetics and construction products. We work closely with other evidence teams including those in engineering, research, analysis and testing. It is a multidisciplinary team covering specialisms including analytical chemistry, materials science and toxicology. The team is also responsible for chemical risk assessment advice and leads the Office’s access to independent scientific experts in the space of chemicals and materials.
The role
We require a science specialist to join our team efforts in providing chemical science advice and commissioning research with respect to our product safety responsibilities. This desk-based role will predominantly be focused on the chemicals utilised in cosmetics, toys, general products and more, on the UK market. You will support the work of other Science team members, working closely with policy, enforcement and other teams within the Office, for the effective delivery of UK product safety regulations.
The role will also involve offering chemical science technical support during ad-hoc incident responses across the various product areas we regulate.
You will need to be confident in drawing together, interpreting and communicating your findings to a lay audience as well as technical members of the team. You will provide support to cross-cutting research programmes, collaborating with testing, engineering, and analysis teams, and our laboratory facilities, to deliver key evidence to support OPSS’ strategic priorities.
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