Environmental Health Officer (Food and Health & Safety)

Job Reference: WCC622668

Salary range: £42,912 - £57,495 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience.

Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QPHours per week: 36

Contract type: Permanent

Closing date: 17 April 2026

About Us: The extraordinary story of over 6000 restaurants. Environmental Health at Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories, where passionate and expert professionals go above and beyond for their colleagues every day. Cian believes that food brings people together. His work opens his eyes to the widest range of people and places. From restaurants to hotels, cafés to bakeries, his inspections keep the public safe, and help businesses keep their doors open. And with over 6000 restaurants to explore, if there’s one thing he knows for certain, it’s that he’ll never be bored.

The Role: As a Safe City Environmental Health Officer, you can make your own powerful contribution to people across Westminster. Joining our Food Health & Safety Team, you’ll proactively identify risks to the public, responding to community concerns quickly and effectively. This is a hands‑on, dynamic role. Day‑to‑day, you’ll carry out routine or unplanned inspections throughout the City, working to make Westminster a healthier and safer place to live, work and visit. Using your technical knowledge and customer service skills, you’ll educate individuals and businesses on the impact of their actions, providing expert advice, ensuring compliance, and helping them to meet regulatory requirements. You’ll take enforcement action where necessary, initiating legal proceedings, and preparing and giving evidence in court. A source of expertise and guidance, you’ll support the resolution of issues, and help others develop their knowledge and expertise.

About You: An established professional with experience of working in a relevant environmental health discipline, you’ll have responded to complaints from the public, stakeholders or public elected members in a previous role. A natural communicator with excellent interpersonal skills, you’ll have the ability to build trusted relationships quickly, deescalate conflict and explain consequences of non‑compliance. You might have experience of delivering a customer facing role, or of working alongside agencies and other professionals to provide excellent customer service. An understanding of rules of evidence and court proceedings is desirable, as is experience of case management. On a personal level, you’ll be organised, self‑motivated and an excellent listener. Most importantly, you’ll be passionate about improving health and safety outcomes for businesses, residents and visitors across Westminster. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an experienced, supportive team, and to supercharge your career in the process.

What We Offer: Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three‑quarters‑of‑a‑million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision‑making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way.

As a forward‑thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working. The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.