Health and Community Services Directorate – Canberra ACT

Details: The ACT Environmental Health team provides a wide range of regulatory roles in both State/Territory and Local Government functions. This provides a unique opportunity to gain high level experience in multiple areas of Environmental Health that will provide invaluable experience in your environmental health career.

As part of the team, you will be responsible for assessing food business registration and fit out applications, conducting routine food safety inspections, investigation food safety complaints and participate in the management of food poisoning outbreaks. You will also gain experience in issuing enforcement documents, drafting prosecution briefs and conducting routine and three-part legal food sampling.

You will also develop skills and knowledge in swimming pool and cooling tower inspections and water sampling and assessing compliance against relevant Codes of Practice. You will gain experience in hoarding and squalor under the Public Health Act and attend exhumations to provide health oversight. The Environmental Health team is also responsible for assessing development applications for potential public health concerns, trapping and monitoring mosquitoes, collecting recreation water samples across 17 sites in the ACT and potable and recreational water samples in Jervis Bay.

You will also be engaged and participate in quality assurance actives,



reviewing Standard Operating Procedures and continuous in-house career development. A training budget is also available for external training providers.

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people with diverse thoughts, lived experience, and perspectives can thrive and contribute their unique talents to the ACTPS and ACT community. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes and sexualities to apply.

Eligibility/Other requirements: A Bachelor of Science (Environmental Health) or similar qualification acceptable and recognised by Environmental Health Australia or a Graduate Diploma in Environmental Health recognised by Environmental Health Australia Accredited courses - Environmental Health Australia Ltd. (eh.org.au).

Note: Applicants with a Bachelor of Applied Science with demonstrated/work experience as an Environmental Health Officer may be considered.Where successful applicants have less than 12 months qualified experience, they are required to be appointed as a HP1 (P52440) under the Health Professional Enterprise Agreement for 12 months before transferring into a HP2 position. A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months.

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📌 Environmental Health Officer (Canberra)
🏢 Health and Community Services Directorate
📍 Canberra