Principal Environmental Health Officer

Principal Environmental Health Officer £40,777 - £45,091 Pay award pending Full Time – 37 hours per week Rugby Borough Council is dedicated to both Community and Colleague growth. With a focus on wellbeing and personal development, we offer a range of career opportunities where you can take pride in the positive changes you help create. Join an organisation committed to the success of one of the Country’s fastest-growing boroughs and the people who make it thrive. About the role As our Principal Environmental Health Officer you’ll take the lead in delivering service improvements, enhancing professional standards, consistency, and customer outcomes across Regulation and Safety. You’ll give day to day operational direction and co-ordination to our first line supervisors, making sure teams are operating collaboratively to achieve the strategic objectives of the service while acting as a mentor, identifying training needs and undertaking appraisals. Alongside this you’ll be doing variety of inspections and surveys covering areas such as Food, Pollution, Housing or Health and Safety, Environmental Crime, Nuisance and Anti Social Behaviour and investigation of complaints/nuisances and other environmental health matters. About you You’ll be an experienced Environmental Health Officer with or working towards EHORB. You’ll have experience of enforcement investigations, interventions and enforcements with a deep understanding of how to use intelligence to solve problems and address community concerns. Experience of supervising, mentoring and training other staff is also desirable. Please see the attached Job Profile for full details. Benefits • 35 days leave (including 8 Bank Holidays and 3 extra days normally applied at Christmas) • Generous Local Government Pension Scheme • Hybrid working up to 60% • Flexi time scheme • Annual leave purchase scheme • Subsidised parking • Structured Induction Program • Learning and Development opportunities including Future Leaders programmes • Payment of a professional subscription for approved professionals • Family Friendly Policies • Independent Support for your health & wellbeing • Generous compassionate leave • Extra Benefits including Retail Discounts, Cycle to Work scheme and more