Technical Officer - Environmental Protection

We are seeking a proactive and motivated Environmental Protection Technical Officer to deliver a comprehensive, customer-focused Environmental Protection service. If you have a real passion for Environmental Health and thrive on helping to improve the lives of the residents of Nuneaton and Bedworth, this role is for you. You will develop and apply specialist expertise in environmental protection while handling a diverse workload. This post offers plentiful opportunities to expand your knowledge across all areas of pollution control work. To excel, you must bring self-motivation, competent communication skills, and the capability to take responsibility for your individual work targets. Main Duties This role will include:

• Nuisance Investigations: Investigate commercial and domestic statutory nuisance, and waste complaints, with a primary focus on noise complaints.
• Inspections & Monitoring: Carry out environmental protection inspections, audits, sampling, and surveillance, including evaluating noise evidence.
• Enforcement Action: Initiate proportionate enforcement duties, including serving Abatement Notices and Community Protection Notices, preparing prosecution files, and acting as the Council's witness in court or at Tribunals.
• Working effectively with external organisations, local communities/stakeholders, and multi-agency forums.
  
  We are looking for someone with excellent customer care skills, who can prioritise and organise their own workload, enjoys a challenge, and is confident in challenging situations.
Experience of working in an enforcement role, in activities such as regulatory inspections/audits, investigations, response to complaints or requests for advice. We are looking for an assertive, logical thinker with great judgement who can manage a varied workload under pressure. To be successful, you must demonstrate: Core Attributes: A genuine commitment to protecting public health, strong investigative skills, and a proactive approach to learning and continuous improvement. Experience: Proven experience in a regulatory role (preferably within a local authority or public service) and direct experience communicating with people from a range of backgrounds. Communication: Exceptional verbal and written English, with the ability to interpret legislation and assertively communicate regulatory requirements while remaining supportive. Decision Making: The confidence to work independently, make timely, informed decisions, and collaborate effectively as part of a team. Travel & Flexibility: A valid driving licence and access to your own transport for work-related travel. You must also be flexible to work occasionally work unsocial hours., This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.

Our Council Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council is a small authority with BIG values. We take pride in serving the residents of our borough and look to provide value for money services. We aim to work to the best of our abilities with honesty, integrity and place particular importance on working together. Why join us?...... Situated in the heart of England, Nuneaton and Bedworth shares excellent rail and motorway links to the rest of the country. We offer a wide range of job opportunities from refuse and cleansing roles, which directly serve our local community, to behind the scenes administrative roles; providing essential support to our front line professionals.

As an employer, Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council offers a wide range of benefits, including flexible working, Local Government Pension Scheme and generous holiday allowance., A wide range of benefits including competitive salaries that are based on our competency framework and paid according to the scoring of the job profile, to ensure that all roles performing the same duties are paid equally. A generous annual leave entitlement. Our employees receive 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years continuous service. Plus all bank holidays. A wide range of learning and development opportunities. We recognise our employees as a valuable resource and are therefore committed to the investment of time and financial resources to support the learning and development of our workforce. We offer a wide range of learning prospects, which to name a few include: In-house training sessions, E-learning modules, Leadership and management development programmes and a Post Entry Training scheme Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), which provides a secure future income, independent of share prices and stock market fluctuations. To help your pension grow, the Council meets the balance of the cost of providing your benefits into the LGPS. Health and Wellbeing initiatives- our in-house Sports Development Team operate regular work place challenges, health checks and MOT's. Employees also receive discounted gym and leisure membership. Wider Wallets - all our employees gain access to offers and permanent discounts to everyday savings, ranging from discounts on high street stores to offers on days outs. Travel, car allowances and schemes - mileage allowances are paid for using cars/cycles for Council business. In addition, Level 1 car users are provided with a car park pass. We also operate a Cycle salary sacrifice scheme. Work-life balance -. We have a number of initiatives in place to support flexible working including, a job-sharing policy, career break scheme, flexible working policy, flexitime scheme, parental leave scheme, time off for dependants, maternity support leave and agile working. Armed Force Covenant - We are proud signatories of the Armed Force Covenant and actively work to ensure that we continue to deliver on our commitment as stated in the Covenant. We were recently awarded the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award. We have a range of internal processes and policies to support our Armed Forces Communities. What we look for……. We seek candidates that can adapt to change and welcome new challenges. We look for those that share our values and take pride in what they do.