Trading Standards Officer Level 1
| Posting date: | 28 May 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 June 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, le3 8ra |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5303 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £27,717 - £30,066 per annum (pro rata for part-time)
Working Hours: 37
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 19 June 2025
Interview Date(s): week commencing 30th June 2025
Are you looking to take the first step on your career journey or seeking an exciting change in direction? Leicestershire County Council has 2 apprenticeship posts in our Trading Standards team as a Level 1 Trading Standards Officer. The role involves undertaking the Level 6 Trading Standards Professional Apprenticeship. During this time, you will gain hands-on experience while working towards your professional qualification. We are keen to hear from individuals who are calm under pressure, highly motivated and personable
About the Role
You will cover all areas of Trading Standards as part of your apprenticeship however one role will focus on tobacco and vapes enforcement with a particular focus on tackling illegal and underage sales of tobacco and vapes, supporting businesses to achieve compliance, and protecting consumers, particularly children from harm.
The other role will focus on animal health and welfare and involves visiting farms and livestock gatherings, providing advice to support the industry and protect the food chain. This at times can include investigating cases of suffering and farmed animal welfare.
No previous Trading Standards experience is required, but you must be committed to undertaking the Level 6 Trading Standards Professional Apprenticeship and building a career within this vital service whilst working as part of a supportive and productive team.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
- Experience of successfully completing tasks within set deadlines
- Experience of accurate record keeping and showing attention to detail.
- Experience of writing project, research or other reports.
- Good written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to prioritise and plan own workload in the context of conflicting priorities and work on own initiative with guidance from senior officers where appropriate.
- Experience of investigation, compliance or regulatory work is desirable
You will be required to undertake a short test by analysing a scenario and feeding back to the panel your findings and a short presentation on an area of Trading Standards work. Details of this will be sent to you via email if you are shortlisted.
Please include with your CV, a supporting statement showcasing your enthusiasm and suitability and preference for which role if you have one.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equal opportunities, and the ability to apply this to all situations.
In addition, we expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for this role.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual’s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Enter name and job title Karen Retallic or Alison Law
Telephone: 0116 3056545 or 0116 3056537
Email: Karenretallic@Leics.gov.uk or Alisonlaw@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services, we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click ‘Apply Now’. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.org.uk/support.
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