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Food Safety Inspector

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Job Description - Food Safety Inspector

Recruitment is currently ongoing for a Food Safety Inspector role. The Food Safety Inspector will be responsible for providing assistance, advice and using available statutory powers to carry out all manners of enforcement to keep people safe and to maintain professional and legal standards. The Food Safety Inspector will also provide technical professional services with the overall aim of protecting and improving the health and wellbeing of every resident, worker, and visitor within the Organization.

Key Responsibilities:

  • To participate in food safety and health and safety related operations and/or projects to ensure that various technical functions and associated work are performed effectively to service objectives.
  • To investigate, survey, inspect, report on and resolve cases arising from food premises including food hygiene, health and safety, infectious disease, drainage, pests and refuse and carry out legal enforcement action and other food safety related activities and services.
  • To investigate the causes and consequences of accidents and dangerous occurrences formally notified to the Company arising from Food Premises and to take appropriate action using the full range of enforcement powers available.
  • To investigate service requests arising from food premises in relation to drainage, pests, technical or legal food and health and safety matters, serve documents, collect samples or equipment and revisit food premises to check compliance.
  • To inspect premises, prepare schedules of work, comments and reports in the capacity of responsible authority for the commissioning regimes such as licensing and planning.
  • To keep abreast of legislative and technical developments in concerning food and health and safety activities.
  • To undertake appropriate training and /or study for personal or professional development and contribute to knowledge sharing initiatives and programmes.

Skills, Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience:

  • Demonstratable competency under the Food Law Code of Practice (England)
  • Technical knowledge of Environmental Health / Licensing / legislation and/or the ability to develop technical knowledge in a specific area.
  • Sound knowledge of food safety processes as they relate to food premises within a local government context including enforcement and regulatory functions, and the application of all relevant legal and practical principles.
  • Qualification for Food Hygiene Official controls and meet the competency requirements of the Food Law Code of Practice for an Authorised Officer.
  • Is self-motivated and able to work under pressure to meet deadlines and targets whilst producing work to a high standard.
  • Hold additional relevant food safety qualifications such as MSc/PGDip in Food Safety and Control
  • Have a detailed knowledge/understanding of the legislative framework relevant to Food Safety and experience in its application to casework.
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