12039

Closes: 02 February 2025

Classification: Health Professional Level 1
Salary: $78,287 - $95,022 plus superannuation
Position No: 12039
Directorate: ACT Health
Advertised (Gazettal date): 02 January 2025
Contact Officer: Lyndell Hudson on Lyndell.Hudson@act.gov.au or 0435010936

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Details: ACT Health is looking for an Environmental Health student who is studying Bachelor of Science (Environmental Health) or a Graduate Diploma in Environmental Health recognised by Environmental Health Australia to join the Environmental Health team to gain on the job experience and financial support while completing their qualifications.

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 fitout 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 professional 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:

Enrolment within an accredited Degree/Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental Health recognised by Environmental Health Australia Accredited courses - Environmental Health Australia Ltd. (eh.org.au)

Current Drivers Licence

Prior to commencement, the successful candidate will be required to undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.

Notes: A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months. Selection may be based on application and referee reports only.

How to Apply: Applicants must provide a statement of claims detailing experience against the Professional/Technical Skills and Knowledge Criteria as well as experience against the behavioural capability list on the Position Description.

It is in the interests of candidates to present their application in a way that demonstrates significant outcomes associated with each of the criteria, as well as the capabilities and behaviours that underpin them.

Application that do not provide a statement of claims will not be considered.

A current curriculum vitae listing two referees, and a copy of suitable qualifications must also be provided.

Applications are restricted to two pages.

Proof of current enrolment and transcript of Environmental Health course recognised by Environmental Health Australia.

Applications should be submitted via the Apply Now button below.

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