Plant & Bee Health Compliance & Enforcement Officer
| Posting date: | 28 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | £33,590 to £40,170 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £33,590 - £36,000, London: £37,480 - £40,170. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 April 2025 |
| Location: | National |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 382679/1 |
Summary
We are dedicated to being an inclusive employer, offering equitable opportunities for all individuals. Our goal is to build a diverse workforce, and we hope to attract applications from all backgrounds and underrepresented groups.
Are you looking to apply your communication and problem-solving skills in a role that offers both variety and flexibility?
Do you have experience in an enforcement environment?
Are you capable of leading investigations and employing various investigative techniques?
As a Plant & Bee Health Compliance & Enforcement Officer, you will co-ordinate Plant & Bee Health compliance/enforcement activity and work to develop APHA field staff capability/ processes.
You will build and maintain strong links with operational delivery teams (Border Control Posts & Inland Teams) and other relevant APHA business units or external agencies key to regulatory and enforcement activity. This includes raising awareness of the impact of non-compliant behaviour on Plant Health import activities, with the aim of introducing Civil Sanctions by ensuring that instructions, templates, processes are fit for purpose.
There are a number of key work areas which include:
- Building effective relationships with enforcement partners, stakeholders and policy colleagues, ensuring a collective approach to specific cases and wider non-compliance issues and promoting a clear understanding of outcomes.
- Reviewing current processes and guidance for staff on compliance & enforcement issues to identify any deficiencies and areas for improvement.
- Supporting APHA staff to undertake their role whilst investigating regulatory non-compliance, including guidance on evidence gathering, non-specific witness statement creation and court preparation. Court attendance may also be required.
- Being an active member of the investigations team and to participate in case-conferences, site visits and to lead discussions on appropriate actions in all cases that require APHA co-ordination or investigation.
- Inputting into the identification of high-risk areas of non-compliance and to ensure the development of plans and procedures in order to prevent or mitigate them.
- Being a point of contact for operational teams within the Agency in order to advise on appropriate actions where non-compliance is suspected, raise the profile of non-compliance issues and to encourage the exchange of information.
- Supporting field operational teams in their understanding of enforcement principles and raise awareness of the impact of non-compliance on delivery of policies/ controls.
- Considering targeted enforcement campaigns across APHA in conjunction with policy customers and enforcement partners, to address highlighted areas of risk.
- Collaborating on the development of processes for the introduction of civil sanctions.
- In a disease outbreak, be the point of contact for any issues arising with non-compliance with prevention measures or control activities.
We encourage you to apply as any future vacancies will be filled using reserve list from this campaign. All posts will be offered in merit order based on location preference.
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