Food Safety Officer
| Posting date: | 07 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £24.22 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | per hour PAYE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 June 2025 |
| Location: | Hull, HU9 1DB |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | Hull 5267200 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Temporary Food Safety Officer
Ref number: Hull 5267200
Please do not apply for this role unless your CV meets the following general requirements, listed below:
You must be UK based and have the right to work in the UK.
Your commute to the place of work must be less than 1 hour.
This is a temporary role. Please do not apply if you are seeking a permanent position.
Skills & Experience:
Must hold a CIEH accredited degree (MSc. or BSc. (Hons)
Degree or Diploma) in Environmental Health within 6 months from the time of appointment.
Currently competent to deliver a range of interventions under the Food Law Code of Practice (2021).
A detailed specialist knowledge of the legislation relating to the activities of the Food and Health and Safety Section and Infectious Disease Control.
Experience undertaking primary production audits, approved premises approvals and review of approvals, export certificates, supporting and contributing to external audits, validation of food safety management systems
Investigative, analytical and interpretative skills
Communication and negotiation skills
What's involved with this role: You will work within a professional environmental health team to support the Council’s statutory duties in food safety and health and safety. You will also provide a customer-focused service, responding to public requests and carrying out inspections and regulatory work, particularly in lower-risk food premises.
Key duties:
Respond promptly to public enquiries and reports, maintaining accurate records to support evidence-based interventions and outcomes.
Provide tailored food safety and hygiene advice to businesses, using appropriate communication styles to enhance understanding.
Support businesses through advice and coaching, encouraging ownership of responsibilities and promoting full legal compliance.
Carry out inspections and surveys of high-risk businesses and premises to assess standards, identify risks, and enforce public health legislation.
Apply active listening and questioning techniques to gather information, and handle challenging situations professionally and objectively.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application should be clearly shown in your CV.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.
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Job Ref: Hull 5267200
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates.
We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.
Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs.
Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.