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Job Role: Principal Health Officer
Salary: Up to £47,000      
Location: South East England
Hours: 37 hours per week

Exciting opportunity to work for a well known coastal Local Authority in the South East, leading on the safeguard of public health in the region. My client is currently in the market for a Principal Port Health Officer to step in and lead a team that focuses on controlling the safety measures of imported products, more specifically animal origin and high risk foods.

Job Summary:

• To undertake a range of statutory duties to safeguard public health.  
• To conduct Official Controls including carrying out checks on imports of products of animal origin and high risk food not of  animal origin in order to ensure that only products that are safe  to eat enter the food chain.  
• To undertake checks of organic food, illegal unreported and  unregulated fishing, animal composites and other relevant  controlled goods. 
• To manage assigned staff within the service and take lead responsibility for aspects of BCP work.
• To make an effective contribution to the development and achievement of the Border BCP health protection and  business objectives. 

Experience needed:

• Extensive experience in food control work 
• Extensive enforcement experience covering a wide range of food areas including inspection of  premises, monitoring and food sampling plus prosecution  experience 
• Extensive experience of an operational and/or technical lead role within a food related service  
• Experience of managing of people &/or and resources including performance management 
• Experience using databases 
• Direct experience of port health database/systems  such as the use of PHILIS, IPAFFS (or its predecessor) and FSA risk-likelihood dashboard

Please apply with submission of your CV and Chandani Jethwa from our London CPE office will be in touch. For more information and a confidential chat about the position, please do not hesitate to call us on 0203 680 0630.