Environmental Health Manager (East) - ARB17180
| Posting date: | 21 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £55,349.00 to £60,477.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 December 2025 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Argyll and Bute Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ARB17180 |
Summary
Service: Environmental Health
Closing Date: Friday 5th December 2025
Interested in developing your career and join a close-knit team making a real difference in one of Scotland’s most beautiful coastal communities. Come and manage our environmental health team protecting public health, safety and wellbeing
Argyll and Bute is one of Scotland’s most stunning areas. As its award-winning council, we play a vital part in the day-to-day life and long-term future of our beautiful and diverse communities. Our unwavering purpose is to make Argyll and Bute the place to be, the place where people want to live, to work and do business. And we are committed to making the council the place to have a great career, by providing excellent benefits and a friendly, dynamic working culture so that each of our 5000 colleagues can deliver services that help our corner of Scotland thrive. Join us to make a difference.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead and manage a professional team delivering all aspects of environmental health across the east operational team, with the additional responsibility for public health, health and safety and environmental issues including private water supplies and short-term let licensing. Working flexibly, based in Helensburgh or Dunoon, you will have proven experience in managing /supervising a range of environmental health functions with good leadership, interpersonal and organisational skills and able to work on own initiative and as part of a team. We have a good track record of developing our staff, professional membership of Royal Environmental Helath Institute of Scotland and support attainment of Chartered EHO status
Our employees make good things happen in the day-to-day life and the longer term future of Argyll and Bute. We want you to feel valued . We offer various benefits to support you, such as a competitive salary, pension scheme, generous leave entitlement, cycle to work scheme, discounts on gym memberships and leisure centres, wellbeing initiatives and opportunities for learning and career growth. We also embrace a modern approach to work, offering a flexible first approach where possible to requests from our employees.
We care about our people and the world around us and always aim to do the right thing. From employee recognition schemes to environmental policies we have many initiatives in place to help us look after the things we all care about.
Learn more here Argyll and Bute Employee Recognition Programme, Disability Confident, Armed Forces, Fair Work First Statement, Equality and Fairness, Climate Change, Hybrid and Flexible Working Policy
Argyll and Bute Council recognises the benefits of a positive work-life balance to the wellbeing and productivity of our employees. We take a flexible first approach to requests from our employees to change the way that they work. While we must balance such requests with the need to ensure the quality of the important services we deliver are not compromised, we will ensure that each request is given careful consideration with a view to achieving a positive outcome wherever possible.
Interviews will be held in person on Thursday 8 January 2026 and/or 12 January 2026.
Applicants should note that:-
- This post is not suitable for job share.
To apply for this vacancy, please click on the Apply Now button at the top of this page.
If you would like clarification on any information contained within the vacancy advert and/or the job description please contact the recruiting manager, who is:
- Alan Morrison, Senior Manager- Regulatory Services and Building Standards
- Telephone: 01546 604292
- Email: alan.morrison@argyll-bute.gov.uk
- Reference: ARB17180 / 010435
Please note that you cannot apply for this vacancy by contacting the recruiting manager, applications must be made by clicking on the Apply Now button at the top of this page.
Please also note that we do not accept CVs, only applications completed and submitted via the Apply Now button on this page.
We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. To find out more about our commitment to this please visit Equality & Diversity Policy.
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