Port Health Technical Officer - Graduate Trainee
| Posting date: | 14 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37223-41567 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 November 2025 |
| Location: | Ports within Essex and Kent, the main office is located at London Gateway Logistics Centre, Stanford Le Hope Essex., SS17 9DY |
| Company: | City of London Corporation |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 971-43782916 |
Summary
City of London Corporation
Fixed Term Contract – 18 months
1x Port Health Technical Officer - Graduate Trainee
Workplace Attendance Category for this role is: -
Hybrid – you’ll be expected to be in the office at least 3 days per week or 60% of your working time in the office.
The City of London Corporation is the City of opportunities, diversity, social impact and commercial influence. Our work touches lives not just in the Square Mile or even in London, but across the UK and beyond. We provide care and support to people in the City of London. Everything from housing, education and social care to health, leisure and education. It’s about making sure everyone can live independently, healthily, and achieve their ambitions.
As a Port Health Technical Officer
- Graduate Trainee within the Port Health service you’ll have the opportunity to gain a remarkable amount of experience while providing a wide range of regulatory services for the City of London. The programme covers Animal Health to Food safety to Housing and everything in between. You will be supported, mentored and guided to complete your professional portfolio for the CIEH. The type of work you will undertake will include responding to complaints, risk-based inspection of premises, preparing formal notices and documents (including legal evidence where necessary) and report writing.
You will be based within Port Health – which cover Ports within Essex and Kent, the main office is located at London Gateway Logistics Centre, Stanford Le Hope Essex. You will have the ability to work in variety of departments to assist your learning, training needs and personal development to complete your professional portfolio.
You will hold a driving licence and have a vehicle insured for business use. This is an essential criteria.
The experience we offer working in an Environmental Health setting will provide you with a good understanding of our organisation and our profession. You must be organised, ambitious and keen to learn, have the ability to work independently, present confidently, work well as part of a team and have excellent customer service skills, embodying the values and behaviours of our organisation.
When it comes to valuing our people, we have one key goal: to be an excellent employer. We offer a wide range of development opportunities in this most diverse and challenging of organisations. In addition to a competitive salary and membership of the excellent Local Government Pension Scheme, you can look forward to an all-round package of life-improving benefits and including discounts on health and wellbeing, arts and culture.
The City of London Corporation is currently undergoing a programme to ensure that our pay and reward practices are competitive and equitable across the whole organisation, to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to thrive in the work that we do.
Closing date: 12 noon on 24 November 2025
Interviews will be held w/c 8 December 2025
Fixed Term Contract – 18 months
1x Port Health Technical Officer - Graduate Trainee
Workplace Attendance Category for this role is: -
Hybrid – you’ll be expected to be in the office at least 3 days per week or 60% of your working time in the office.
The City of London Corporation is the City of opportunities, diversity, social impact and commercial influence. Our work touches lives not just in the Square Mile or even in London, but across the UK and beyond. We provide care and support to people in the City of London. Everything from housing, education and social care to health, leisure and education. It’s about making sure everyone can live independently, healthily, and achieve their ambitions.
As a Port Health Technical Officer
- Graduate Trainee within the Port Health service you’ll have the opportunity to gain a remarkable amount of experience while providing a wide range of regulatory services for the City of London. The programme covers Animal Health to Food safety to Housing and everything in between. You will be supported, mentored and guided to complete your professional portfolio for the CIEH. The type of work you will undertake will include responding to complaints, risk-based inspection of premises, preparing formal notices and documents (including legal evidence where necessary) and report writing.
You will be based within Port Health – which cover Ports within Essex and Kent, the main office is located at London Gateway Logistics Centre, Stanford Le Hope Essex. You will have the ability to work in variety of departments to assist your learning, training needs and personal development to complete your professional portfolio.
You will hold a driving licence and have a vehicle insured for business use. This is an essential criteria.
The experience we offer working in an Environmental Health setting will provide you with a good understanding of our organisation and our profession. You must be organised, ambitious and keen to learn, have the ability to work independently, present confidently, work well as part of a team and have excellent customer service skills, embodying the values and behaviours of our organisation.
When it comes to valuing our people, we have one key goal: to be an excellent employer. We offer a wide range of development opportunities in this most diverse and challenging of organisations. In addition to a competitive salary and membership of the excellent Local Government Pension Scheme, you can look forward to an all-round package of life-improving benefits and including discounts on health and wellbeing, arts and culture.
The City of London Corporation is currently undergoing a programme to ensure that our pay and reward practices are competitive and equitable across the whole organisation, to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to thrive in the work that we do.
Closing date: 12 noon on 24 November 2025
Interviews will be held w/c 8 December 2025
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