The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required have also been included. Workplace role categories describe our approach to workplace attendance
Salary: £37,223 - £41,566 per annum inclusive of all allowances (Outer London Weighting, 4.81% unsocial hours payment and 5.18% contractual hours payment)
Contractual Hours: 36.8125 hours per week
Basis: Full-Time, Fixed Term
Workplace category: Hybrid
Attachments: Job Information Pack
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Fixed Term Contract – 18 months
Workplace Attendance Category for this role is: -
Hybrid – you’ll be expected to be in the office at least 3 days per week or 60% of your working time in the office.
1x Port Health Technical Officer - Graduate Trainee
The City of London Corporation is the City of opportunities, diversity, social impact and commercial influence. Our work touches lives not just in the Square Mile or even in London, but across the UK and beyond. We provide care and support to people in the City of London. Everything from housing, education and social care to health, leisure and education. It’s about making sure everyone can live independently, healthily, and achieve their ambitions.
As a Port Health Technical Officer - Graduate Trainee within the Port Health service you’ll have the opportunity to gain a remarkable amount of experience while providing a wide range of regulatory services for the City of London. The programme covers Animal Health to Food safety to Housing and everything in between. You will be supported, mentored and guided to complete your professional portfolio for the CIEH. The type of work you will undertake will include responding to complaints, risk-based inspection of premises, preparing formal notices and documents (including legal evidence where necessary) and report writing.
You will be based within Port Health – which cover Ports within Essex and Kent, the main office is located at London Gateway Logistics Centre, Stanford Le Hope Essex. You will have the ability to work in variety of departments to assist your learning, training needs and personal development to complete your professional portfolio.
You will hold a driving licence and have a vehicle insured for business use.
The experience we offer working in an Environmental Health setting will provide you with a good understanding of our organisation and our profession. You must be organised, ambitious and keen to learn, have the ability to work independently, present confidently, work well as part of a team and have excellent customer service skills, embodying the values and behaviours of our organisation.
When it comes to valuing our people, we have one key goal: to be an excellent employer. We offer a wide range of development opportunities in this most diverse and challenging of organisations. In addition to a competitive salary and membership of the excellent Local Government Pension Scheme, you can look forward to an all-round package of life-improving benefits and including discounts on health and wellbeing, arts and culture.
If this role is advertised as a secondment, secondments are subject to the agreement of your department releasing you, therefore, you need to discuss this with your line manager prior to applying. The purpose of this will be to discuss what, if any, impact your secondment might have on the service and service delivery should your application be successful, and how this might be addressed.
The City of London Corporation is currently undergoing a programme to ensure that our pay and reward practices are competitive and equitable across the whole organisation, to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to thrive in the work that we do.
Closing date: 12 noon on 25 August 2025
Interviews will be held w/c 1 September 2025
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To apply online please click the Apply online button below.
Alternatively, please contact 020 7332 3978 (24 hr answerphone) quoting reference number OENV734 if you experience any difficulties. A minicom service for the hearing impaired is available on 020 7332 3732.
The City of London Corporation is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.
We reserve the right to close the advert earlier should we receive a high number of applications.
Because our roles are so varied, we don’t have a ‘one size fits all’ policy for workplace attendance. How many days a week you’ll be required to attend your workplace will depend on the requirements of your role. It’s important that you understand the requirements before applying to ensure you are able to meet them. We are committed to considering requests to work flexibly and job share. Requests will be considered by the recruiting manager in line with our policies and business needs.
For more information on our categories for workplace attendance, please view our guide here.
We will be reviewing this policy and approach at regular intervals to ensure we’re meeting our attendance needs.