🌍 Graduate Environmental Health Specialist (x2 positions)
📍 Location: Nottingham
📅 Closing Date: 3rd August 2025
💼 Salary: £35,235 per annum, Grade G
📈 Career Progression: Opportunity to progress to a fully qualified Environmental Health Officer (Grade H)
Start your Environmental Health career with purpose, support, and real-world impact.
Are you passionate about protecting public health and making a difference in your community? Whether you're about to graduate or have recently completed your degree in Environmental Health, this is your chance to begin your career in local government, gaining meaningful experience and growing into a fully qualified and registered Environmental Health Officer.
Nottingham City Council is looking for two ambitious Graduate Environmental Health Specialists to join our dedicated team. This is more than just a job - it’s an opportunity to learn, contribute, and build a career that matters.
Position 1 – Graduate Environmental Health Officer: Food safety, health and safety
Position 2 – Graduate Environmental Health Officer: Safer Places (Environmental Protection)
🌟 What You’ll Be Doing
As a Graduate Environmental Health Specialist, you’ll be hands-on from day one, supporting a wide variety of frontline services that protect Nottingham’s communities. You will:
- Deliver front-line Environmental Health interventions that improve public health, wellbeing, and safety across the city.
- Gain real-world experience across key areas including:
- Housing
- Food safety
- Health and safety
- Public health
- Environmental protection
- Broaden your expertise with additional exposure to:
- Sports Grounds Safety
- Animal Welfare Licensing
- Event safety and planning
- Support inspections, risk assessments, investigations, and enforcement actions alongside senior officers.
- Work towards full Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) registration, with structured support to help you succeed.
- Embed equity, sustainability, and inclusion in all you do, aligned with the Council’s values.
🎯 Who We’re Looking For
We’re looking for two individuals who are:
- Currently studying or have recently completed an Environmental Health BSc/MSc, or are on a recognised apprenticeship pathway.
- Motivated, socially aware, and passionate about improving public health.
- Effective communicators with a willingness to learn and grow.
- Organised, curious, and committed to problem-solving and professional development.
- Ready to complete CIEH registration and build a long-term career in Environmental Health.
💡 What You’ll Gain
- A structured, supportive development programme to guide your early career.
- Progression potential to a fully qualified Environmental Health Officer role (subject to post availability).
- Exposure to diverse work that makes a real difference across Nottingham’s communities.
- A welcoming team with mentoring, hands-on learning, and continuous professional development opportunities.
- The chance to do meaningful work aligned with your values and focused on real outcomes.
✅ Why Join Nottingham City Council?
We’re a council on a journey of transformation – and we’re looking for people who want to grow with us. You’ll be joining a passionate, forward-thinking Environmental Health team, in a city that values inclusion, innovation, and impact. We offer:
- A strong organisational focus on equality, diversity, and inclusion
- Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance
- A culture of learning, wellbeing, and career progression
- The opportunity to be part of something bigger – making Nottingham a safer, healthier, and more vibrant city for all
📞 Interested?
We’d love to hear from you. Apply now and start your journey with a team that’s making a real difference.
For more information, contact: Paul Dales (Health and Safety role), [email protected] or Richard Taylor (Safer Places role), [email protected]
You can find the job description for this post here
At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.
Closing Date: 3rd August 2025
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held: TBC
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Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.
In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:
- 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years’ service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
- Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
- Smart Working – to support your work life balance
- Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!
Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.
We particularly want to hear from you if you are from Minority Ethnic communities, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ community (LGBTQ+) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we’d like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.
We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.
