Closes: 02 February 2025Classification: Health Professional Level 2Salary: $88,252 - $105,569 plus superannuationPosition No: 50593, severalDirectorate: ACT HealthAdvertised (Gazettal date): 02 January 2025Contact Officer: Lyndell Hudson on or 0435010936Details: The ACT Environmental Health team provides a wide range of regulatory roles in both State/Territory and Local Government functions.This provides a unique opportunity to gain high level experience in multiple areas of environmental health that will provide invaluable experience in your environmental health career.As part of the team, you will be responsible for:Assessing food business registration and fitout applications.Conducting routine food safety inspections.Investigating food safety complaints.Participating in the management of food poisoning outbreaks.Issuing enforcement documents and drafting prosecution briefs.Conducting routine and three-part legal food sampling.Swimming pool and cooling tower inspections and water sampling.Assessing compliance against relevant Codes of Practice.Gaining experience in hoarding and squalor under the Public Health Act.Attending exhumations to provide health oversight.Assessing development applications for potential public health concerns.Trapping and monitoring mosquitoes.Collecting recreation water samples across 17 sites in the ACT and potable and recreational water samples in Jervis Bay.Participating in quality assurance activities and reviewing Standard Operating Procedures.Engaging in continuous in-house professional development.A training budget is also available for external training providers.We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people with diverse thoughts, lived experience, and perspectives can thrive and contribute their unique talents to the ACTPS and ACT community.We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes, and sexualities to apply.Eligibility/Other Requirements:A Bachelor of Science (Environmental Health) or similar qualification acceptable and recognised by Environmental Health Australia, or a Bachelor of Applied Science with demonstrated/work experience as an Environmental Health Officer may be considered.Notes: A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months.How to Apply:Applicants must provide a statement of claims detailing experience against the Professional/Technical Skills and Knowledge criteria as well as experience against the behavioural capability list on the Position Description.It is in the interests of candidates to present their application in a way that demonstrates significant outcomes associated with each of the criteria, as well as the capabilities and behaviours that underpin them.Applications that do not provide a statement of claims will not be considered.A current curriculum vitae listing two referees, and a copy of suitable qualifications must also be provided.Applications are restricted to two pages.Applications should be submitted via the Apply Now button below.#J-18808-Ljbffr