Our Values

It’s great to know that you are interested in working with us at Coventry City Council. As a prospective employee, it is important that everyone who works for us is committed to our One Coventry values and shares our commitment to becoming a more diverse and inclusive organisation. 

In line with our One Coventry values, we strive to have a workforce that reflects our local communities and welcome applicants from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applications from minority ethnic backgrounds, applicants who have a disability and applicants who are from the LGBTQ+ community to apply for our senior leadership roles. 

Our Values are:

About the team we are recruiting to

We value diverse perspectives and experiences and are striving to create a workplace culture that is inclusive, accepting of all, and is free from discrimination and bias.

The Food and Safety Team is responsible for administering all requirements under food and health and safety law including inspections, complaint investigations, and accident investigations. We also administer the Safety Advisory Group to support safe events in the City.

We are based in the brand new One Friargate office building, within the City Centre. We embrace flexible working practices and empower you to manage your working day and location based on your workload and service area delivery requirements. 

What is the job role?

We are seeking a positive, experienced, enthusiastic, talented, and driven professional who cares about the development of our great city to join our busy, high-performing, forward-thinking team.

​You will be working in our Food and Safety Team which sits under the wider Regulatory Services Division, made up of multi-disciplinary professionals including Licensing, Trading Standards, Housing Enforcement and Property Licensing, Community Safety, Building Control, Taxi Licensing and Community Safety. 

You will be working under the general direction of the Principal EHO - Food and Safety, to enforce all relevant legislation administered by the department, and to educate and encourage the public and business proprietors to improve relevant standards. 

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a qualified and experienced Environmental Health Practitioner who has detailed knowledge of the law relating to Environmental Health issues, investigative techniques, and the law of evidence. 

Recent experience and competency in the enforcement of health and safety, food safety and food standards legislation is essential.      

To apply for this role, you must possess a Degree or Diploma in Environmental Health and be EHRB registered.

You must also be competent under the provisions of the FLCOP to inspect high-risk food businesses for food safety and food standards and to use the full range of food safety and food standards enforcement powers open to the profession.

In addition, you must be competent to enforce the provisions of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and associated Regulations. You must be competent to serve Improvement and Prohibition Notices and have comprehensive experience in complex accident investigations. 

When applying for this role you will be asked to write a personal statement, please ensure you provide information on the following in your application: 

• Recent examples of where you have undertaken high-risk food hygiene inspections and the action taken to resolve non-compliances found.
• Recent examples of work undertaken with food standards and how the outcome of this work had a positive impact.
• Recent examples of work undertaken with health and safety investigations and the action taken to resolve non-compliances found.
• How you have worked in partnership with others to achieve a mutual goal.

If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page to see how we can assist you.

For full details on the application process please read the attached document labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'

Interviews will take place week commencing 22^nd January 2024.

About Coventry

Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.

At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 5100 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.

If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit https://www.coventry.gov.uk/council-vacancies

Coventry City Council