Environmental Health Officer (Protection)
Maldon District Council
Temporary, Full Time
£40.00 - £45.00 ph (umbrella)
Location: Maldon
Closing Date: 30th September 2025
Essex County Council (ECC) are delighted to be supporting Maldon District Council to recruit a temporary Environmental Health Officer (Protection) for an initial 3-month temporary contract.
Please note that this role requires onsite presence for 1-2 days as week at the Council Offices.
Why Maldon?
Maldon District is a unique place to both work and live; a combination of a coastal location and easy access to London presents the best of both worlds to those seeking a real work life balance. The district offers a wide range of properties from period country cottages through to brand new executive homes.
The Opportunity:
Maldon District Council is seeking to employ a qualified and experienced Environmental Health Officer (Protection) to work within our busy, multi-skilled service for an initial 3-month period.
Key Responsibilities:
- Have responsibility for a personal caseload of service requests, ensure cases are correctly prioritised, managed appropriately and are resolved within appropriate timescales.
- Investigate, gather evidence and take appropriate enforcement actions to resolve public health and statutory nuisance complaints.
- Keep customers updated on progress as necessary, especially where cases are likely to exceed timescales or are complex/contentious.
- Be able to make independent decisions on the progression of service requests using knowledge of statutory provisions and powers.
- Ensure compliance with statutory regulations, legislation, professional codes of practice, and health and safety requirements.
- Assist with the delivery of at least three specialist areas of Environmental Health: Air Quality, Private Sector Housing, Contaminated Land, Environmental Permitting, Private Water Supplies, Food Hygiene Inspections, Noise Nuisance, Health & Safety, Licensing, Shellfish Sampling, Filthy & Verminous, Caravan Parks, Drainage & Flooding, Environmental Enforcement, Animal Welfare.
- Seek to build a deeper understanding in three or more specialist areas through personal learning and relevant qualifications/CPD.
- Adhere to Council policies and corporate ways of working as directed by your line manager.
- Support the delivery of projects and process improvements to help the service achieve efficiency savings, improved resilience and mitigate against risk.
- Share specialist knowledge within the team so that individual development and high customer service standards are achieved.
- Ensure that enquiries, complaints, and FOIs are proactively responded to in advance of the deadline.
- To maintain personal and professional development to meet the changing demands of the job, participate in appropriate training activities and encourage and support staff in their development and training.
- Update systems regularly and accurately to make sure customer records are up to date and data protection guidance is always followed.
- Follow all Health & Safety procedures when conducting day to day duties, ensuring relevant training is up to date and all incidents, accidents and near misses are reported via SharePoint.
- Work with members, partners and colleagues across the Council so all relevant stakeholders are engaged and informed of service specific activities.
- Be a role model for the service, demonstrating honesty, integrity, resilience and compassion and focussing on communication, personal development and wellbeing.
The Experience you will bring:
- The experience will need to be a minimum of 3 years in an EHO role dealing with nuisance complaints and other environmental protection statutory duties
- Qualifications required would be a MSc in Environmental Health (not Environmental Sciences)
- Membership with the CIEH is ideal but not essential
Maldon District Council are proud to be a disability confident Leader. We’re committed to interview all disabled applicants if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.
If you have queries on this role or require anything further, please email Louise.Butler@essex.gov.uk
