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Trading Standards Officer Apprenticeship
Leicester City Council
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Overview
At Leicester City Council, we’re more than 12,500 people, all working together to serve the people, communities and businesses of the biggest city in the East Midlands. We have a directly elected mayor and 54 councillors, representing 21 wards.
As a unitary authority, we take decisions that affect thousands of lives every day. From social services and schools, to housing and roads, to setting council tax and providing leisure facilities. Join us and you’ll play a role in improving the lives of the 348,000 people who call Leicester home.
£27,711 to £30,060
per year
Full time, Permanent
(37 Hours per week)
Leicester City
Key information
Do you see yourself investigating complaints, inspecting and providing compliance advice to businesses, testing purchases and samples and working in partnership with the Police, HMRC, other council departments and government agencies that investigate serious and organised crime? In this role you will have legal powers that help you to collect evidence, seize offending products and take legal action against offenders.
Our dynamic, multi-disciplined team enforce and promote trading standards in a wide range of work areas, in particular fair trading, doorstep crime, metrology, scams, and product safety) across the city. We protect the health and well-being of our citizens and encourage businesses to prosper.
About the role
Are you ambitious, looking to study and work and be paid at the same time? This is your chance to learn and earn.
We are looking to hire you to undertake the Level 6 Trading Standards Professional Apprenticeship whilst working in the role of a Trading Standards Officer. The role will involve you enforcing new regulations on cigarettes, tobacco and vapes as well as being trained on the full range of trading standards duties. The length of the apprenticeship is 4 years.
Undertaking investigations; you’ll gather evidence including witness statements and expert opinions to create robust cases for formal enforcement. You’ll prepare reports to brief colleagues, senior officers (including legal services) and create legislative briefings. Liaising with key partners including regional Trading Standards services, HMRC, Police and other organisations, you’ll support the work of the service. In addition, you may be required to provide evidence in civil and criminal enforcement action in court as required.
We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible.
Requirements
What you'll need:
You will be an effective communicator with skills proficient in liaising with stakeholders, being able to hold your own during challenges and maintaining a calm and professional attitude. You will be able to analyse and interpret data and produce reports and written correspondence for legal purposes. You will also be able to work on your own initiative and be adaptable to conflicting demands and difficult situations. You will need to be able to be organised but also work under pressure.
A Level 5 is required in English/Maths.