Enforcement Officer Health And Safety
Description
Number of Vacancies
1
Time Type
Full time
Worker Type
Regular
Proposed Interview Date
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Hours of Work
37
Hiring Manager
Khaled Choudhury
Contact Number
01482 615592
Job Description Summary
This is a Full Time, Permanent position.
We are looking for a Health and Safety professional to join our busy team at Hull City Council. If you would like to be part of a Health and Safety team working with a wide variety of commercial businesses and partners, then this opportunity may be just the challenge you are looking for.
Your role will be focussed on ensuring that excellent regulatory and advisory services are provided to businesses and organisations based within our City. You will be closely involved with accident investigations, complaints from the public/businesses, Health and Safety inspections, and interventions based on both national and local priorities.
The city also has a number of registerable business activities and hosts a large number of events, these areas of work come with close engagement and can include both educational and enforcement activities. You can look forward to working with a dedicated team of officers who strive to protect the community of Hull and promote a high level of compliance within our businesses.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Khaled Choudhury, on 01482 615 592 or [email protected] or David Sayers on 01482 414 949 or [email protected]
ROLE AND PURPOSE
To work within a specialist professional team involved in discharging the City Council’s statutory functions and commitments in relation to the enforcement of health and safety legislation.
To safeguard the health, safety and welfare of persons employed in the city, and the public through the inspection of business premises and processes, the investigation of complaints, accidents, dangerous occurrences and work-related diseases. Taking immediate action where there is a risk of a fatality or serious injury, the preparation and enforcement of statutory notices, the prosecution of offenders and the provision of specialist technical advice.
To maintain a register of persons and premises in relation to the activities of hairdressing, tattooing, semi-permanent make-up, cosmetic skin piercing, acupuncture and electrolysis, and to regulate these activities through the issue of licences, preventive inspections and investigation of complaints.
To ensure a smoke free environment for all employees and the public throughout the city by enforcing smoke free legislation, carrying out inspections and investigating complaints. Taking enforcement action against individuals and businesses by preparing and implementing fixed penalty notices and prosecutions.
To participate in the provision of highly interactive client focused responses to requests for services.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
1. Customer Focus
Grades 7
To proactively inspect businesses (including domestic premises) to conduct detailed Health & Safety audits and surveys to determine standards, secure improvements and ensure compliance with legal requirements, so as to safeguard public health, safety and welfare.
To respond to public requests for advice and reports of concerns in a timely and effective way and provide an evidence trail associated with interventions which will allow a qualitative review of action undertaken.
To investigate incidents which may have resulted in injury or near miss, and deal with affected persons with empathy.
To provide and participate in the provision of a highly customer focused response to requests for the Environmental Health (Health & Safety) services.
Grade 8
All of the above plus
To investigate incidents which may have resulted in serious injury or near miss and deal with the person injured and their family with empathy and understanding.
To use a variety of communication techniques to ensure clients are given every opportunity to take full ownership of their responsibilities and achieve full compliance with the various pieces of legislation enforced by the section.
To be able to confirm or gather required information by using active listening and effective questioning techniques.
To work on a regular basis with persons who can display aggressive, challenging, or argumentative behaviour and to deal with this calmly, rationally, and assertively in line with Council policies/procedures. Where necessary and appropriate to establish practical solutions and potentially negotiate informal solutions to avoid the need for enforcement action.
To influence a change in behaviour within both local business owners and businesses with a broader UK base in order to improve standards of health and safety performance in those organisations which require change and improvement.
Grade 9
All of the above plus
To conduct detailed inspections and surveys with a view to resolving complex issues within difficult, sometimes hostile settings, to determine standards, secure improvements and ensure compliance with legal requirements, so as to safeguard public health, safety and welfare.
To advise, liaise and attend meetings as necessary with various other internal departments such as Social Services, Legal Services Department, Corporate Events Management etc and external agencies, such as the Health and Safety Executive, UK Health Security Agency, private organisations, the Police, Fire and Rescue Service and private individuals in matters of mutual concern such as dealing with breaches of legislation, registrations or licences with a view of finding solutions to difficult and sometimes sensitive issues.
2. Performance Management
Grade 7
The ability to accurately input, update, maintain, amend, retrieve and manipulate manual and electronic records and information from systems to produce accurate records for enforcement and regulatory activities and for statistical information to achieve the section’s performance targets.
To support trainee professional staff, less experienced professional officers, and to contribute to their professional development and ensure service delivery in line with guidance from the Health and Safety Executive and internal Policies and Procedures.
To achieve the objectives and targets of the Service Delivery Plan by working effectively as a member of the team and to produce timely and accurate correspondence, records, files and data, including the use of IT.
To work effectively with all team members within a performance framework, to enable progress on projects and meet all aims and objectives. To deliver specialist support, advice and guidance to new and subordinate officers and represent the Service at case conferences and multi-agency meetings so as to ensure effective operational joint working and to provide stakeholders and customers with timely and appropriate solutions.
To manage investigations and caseloads within an environment of conflicting and changing priorities, professional and political demands, meeting the timescales and deadlines required by the service and / or statutory requirements.
To achieve the objectives and targets of the Service Delivery Plan by working effectively as a member of the team and to produce timely and accurate correspondence, records, files and data, including the use of IT.
To undertake the appropriate risk assessments of situations / scenarios in order to appropriately manage potential risk to persons.
Grades 8 and 9
All of the above plus
To supervise and train trainee professional staff, less experienced professional officers, and to contribute to their professional development and ensure service delivery in line with guidance from the Health and Safety Executive and internal Policies and Procedures.
When requested, to correspond with third party contractors when they are carrying out works to comply with legal notices served by us, such as Improvement Notices, ensuring that