ABOUT US

Oxfordshire County Council is an ambitious and forward-thinking employer. It is proud to offer a strong flexible working culture including the flexibility on working hours and the use of technology to support agile working.
Good regulation, appropriately monitored and enforced, helps to make Oxfordshire a greener, fairer and healthier county – directly supporting several of the Council’s priorities.
Whether food or feed is accurately described and is traceable through the food chain, whether you are being provided with the correct weight or measurement of something, or if a consumer product is safe to use, cannot be assessed by an individual consumer. Ensuring compliance with animal health and welfare laws, traceability of livestock and assisting in the prevention of diseases is vital to the food chain and our rural communities.
All of these require a process of inspection, examination, testing and market surveillance. In this respect, we are all vulnerable consumers. The Trading Standards Service acts to help ensure that we can all be confident consumers, and livestock is protected from harm and unfair practices.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Are you looking for a career in Trading Standards and enjoy working with farmed animals? Oxfordshire Trading Standards are looking for an Enforcement Officer, Animal Health & Farming Standards to work in our Food and Farming Standards Team.
The role involves inspecting and enforcing legislation at business premises, including on farm, at livestock market and abattoir in relation to animal disease control, welfare and feed used and grown on farm. This may be routine inspections, dealing with complaints, advising farmers, dealing with outbreaks of disease or investigating offences.
The role also works with the wider Trading Standards to support the other functions of the Service, such as food, product safety, underage sales, illegal tobacco.
Don’t meet the criteria for a Trading Standards officer? If you have some of the skills, we will consider you for a trainee Trading Standards officer instead, provide the training for you and then you can progress. If appointed as a trainee, the successful candidate will be required to complete the CTSI Animal Health and Welfare Professional Qualification as a priority before undertaking the other qualification aspects of the role. The salary for this is £28,163 to £30,060.
Do you already have the qualifications to enforce 2 or more legislative areas of Trading Standards work and extensive experience, including lead auditor or equivalent? We will consider you for a Principal Trading Standards officer post. The salary for this job is £44,711 to £47,754.
The job descriptions for these can be found attached to this advert.