Regional Feed Officer

Role Responsibility

Regional Feed Officer for the Trading Standards South East partnership

Do You have what it takes to deliver the National Feed Programme across the South East?

We are offering an exciting opportunity to recruit a self-motivated, fully feed qualified Trading Standards Officer to help us deliver the National Feed Programme across the South East.

In this unique role, you will be planning and co-ordinating feed visits, assisting the 16 Trading Standards South East (TSSE) Services to carry out their annually targeted inspections of feed premises, auditing, sampling, advising and any necessary follow up work. Providing detailed, accurate records of the visits and outcomes to the relevant local authorities so they can update their own records for the premises.  You will be required to follow all statutory and professional policies, procedures, and work practices to ensure all activity is provided in a professional, effective, and efficient manner to all service users.  

This provides you with the opportunity to experience different locations, businesses, and people across the South East, which provides a significant career development opportunity.

You will be employed in this part time role by Kent County Council, which offers significant benefits including:

• Remote and flexible working,
• Paid Chartered Trading Standards Institute membership,
• A commitment to continual professional development and training ensuring that 20 hours annual CPPD can be maintained for feed competence.
• Support from the dedicated Compliance Food Chain Team

We are looking for an experienced Trading Standards Officer with excellent communication and IT skills, holding the DCATS, DCA, DTS (or equivalent) qualification, which must include the feed paper, who can travel across the Region as needed, carry out high quality feed inspections, interpreting legislation, and conducting follow up action.

Could you be the person we are looking for?

To be shortlisted for interview you will need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the person specification in the Job Description. 

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams.  Full details on how this will work will be sent to you if your application is successfully shortlisted.   

Trading Standards South East (TSSE) is a Partnership of 19 local authorities, namely Brighton & Hove, Buckinghamshire & Surrey, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Medway, Milton Keynes, Oxford, Portsmouth, Windsor & Maidenhead, Reading, Bracknell Forest & West Berkshire (Public Protection Partnership) Wokingham, Slough, Southampton & West Sussex.

Contact Details

For more information about the role, please contact Steve Rock on 03000 414137 or by email at steve.rock@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.