Salary: Band: 10: £38,295 - £42,503 p.a. (+ 17% Shift enhancement for Out of Hours shift pattern)

37 hours per week

Portsmouth City Council

At Portsmouth City Council we're all about developing our staff, because we want to build a bigger and better city but we need the best employees to do so.

With a little over 207,000 residents and 7,000 businesses throughout this city, this unitary authority's main goal is to ensure the best care and development of all those within the city. From customer service to multi-million pound projects, our residents are at the heart of everything we do.

Your New Role

The Regulatory Services Team is responsible for delivering a wide variety of statutory functions examples of which include, pest control services, the regulation of clean air, port health border controls and sampling, health and safety, food safety and standards, animal welfare, communicable diseases, statutory nuisance environmental permitting, product safety and intellectual property crime.

This role represents the principal ''in the field'' of investigators, regulators and decision makers of the Regulatory Services team. The purpose of the role is to be responsible for the delivery of regulatory actions across the entire range of service functions particularly within trading standards and environmental health. You will be based primarily within the Environmental Protection Team dealing with pollution/statutory noise nuisance complaints and issues; also permitting and planning consultations.

An essential part of the role involves working on the Night Noise Service (NNS) which attracts a 17% shift enhancement for working out of hours. The Service runs from Monday-Thursday, operating from 18:00 02:00 and Sunday 18:30-01:30, not including public holidays.

As the senior regulator the role will focus upon legislative compliance supporting Service Leads and the Assistant Director in a range of matters including: policy and statutory compliance, legal proceedings, recruitment choices / disciplinary proceedings / performance management, IT management (maintenance / development), budget management / income generation / invoicing and team development. In addition, you will be directly responding to dissatisfied consumers, elected members and FOI requests and as necessary, the delivery / participation in service rotas / shift work.

What you'll need to succeed

As well as extensive relevant regulatory experience you will have a business facing propensity whilst deploying business advice / compliance and tackling criminality bringing lawbreakers before the Courts. You will have excellent report writing skills and interpersonal skills and a proven track record of enforcement using PACE, CPIA and RIPA. Experience of the judicial system and an understanding of intelligence gathering are also a requirement of the role as is a full driving licence. In addition, the post holder will be required to hold (or working towards holding) one of the following:

• A degree or the equivalent in environmental health - Environmental Health Registration Board; or The Scottish Food Safety Officers’ Registration Board; or
• A trading standards qualification such as Diploma in Consumer Affairs and Trading Standards or Higher Diploma in Consumer Affairs and Trading Standards with food service delivery module ; or
• An equivalent legal qualification (law degree) and / or accreditation by the National Crime Agency under parts: 2, 5 & 8 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 together with significant understanding and experience of asset recovery; or
• The graduate entry Diploma in Acoustics and Noise Control or similarly recognised qualification for professional practitioners in acoustics; or
• A degree in environmental science, engineering or construction (or similar equivalent qualification)

Please read the job profile for the full details of this role

What you'll get in return

We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:

• Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
• Flexible working hours.
• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
• Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme
• Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme
• Discounts on a wide range of goods and services – access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.

Application process:

Please read the full job profile ( click here ) for further details on the post to ensure your application matches the requirements of the role stated in the who is the person.

When completing the application form, please thoroughly tailor your application to the 'Who is the Person' points in the profile with the use of examples from your experience and attach this as a cover letter in the Supporting Documents section. This is important, or you are likely not to be shortlisted. Please read alongside the 'How to apply' information on the home page of the careers website.

We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.

Closing time/date : 29 May 2023 @ 23:59pm

We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.

Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk