Senior Environmental Protection Officer

The Service & Team:

An exciting vacancy has arisen for a full time Senior Environmental Protection Officer in the Environmental Protection team in Regulatory Services (Public Protection). The team seeks to protect and improve the environment for the residents of Cornwall by enacting Environmental Protection legislation and developing and delivering policy.

The Role:

The role holder will be responsible for undertaking a range of specialist duties across the county including leading projects proactively managing their own case load and acting as the specialist in a key area of Environmental Protection legislation Such key areas include the very broad statutory elements of Environmental Protection:

Noise and Statutory Nuisance
Air Quality
Contaminated Land
Private Water Supplies
Pollution Prevention Control (Environmental Permitting)
Public Health: Exhumations and Public Health Funerals Filthy and verminous premises & pest control
Providing technical advice to inform Planning and Licensing decisions

The role holder will be a source of technical expertise for the team and be responsible for providing an effective and comprehensive customer-focused and sustainable service in accordance with legislative requirements and agreed Service standards.

Initially you will provide expertise to the noise and nuisance function but there will an expectation and opportunity to diversify your skill set so that you can support the team and wider service to be more resilient in future. You must be a team player and enjoy new challenges often working to tight deadlines. Cornwall Council offers a flexible working pattern and your work will involve travelling around Cornwall as well as out of county and you may need to work outside normal office hours to meet or work with our customers.

This is a public/customer-facing role where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

Working Pattern:

This is position is full time 37 Hours a week. flexible working options are available in this role such as compressed hours and hybrid work arrangements.

What youll need to succeed:

You will be educated to degree level in Environmental Health or environmental related subject equivalent qualification (or antecedents) or working towards this. Experience in the field of environmental protection is essential.

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What youll get in return:

Cornwall Councils ambition is to be an employer of choice a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

• a competitive salary.

• a defined benefit pension scheme based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions

• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.

• a national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme

• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information:

Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached here

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

For more information please contact Chris Selby on (say my name) or via email

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstratewhy you are suitable for the role using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here The application process.

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted please contact if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.