Student Environmental Health Officer

**Employment Status**: 6-month fixed term
**Days & Hours of Work**:3 days totalling**22.8 hours (flexible on workdays)
**Competitive Salary**:Band 3 - $35.02**per hour + 12% superannuation
**Location**:Corporate Centre in Sandringham

**About Us**:
We are a passionate organisation, connected in our shared goal to be ‘sector leading’ in all that we do for the community and each other. Home to over 100,000 residents, Bayside City Council's enduring purpose is building extraordinary places, thriving communities, and better futures.

Bayside Council is an equal-opportunity employer committed to providing an accessible and safe working environment that embraces and values child safety, diversity, and inclusion. Our organisational strategy is made up of three priorities and we consider these in everything we do**:Diversity, Equity & Inclusion**, **Customer Experience** and **Results Matter**.

We want everyone to be as proud of what we are achieving - and excited about our future - as we are, and we are committed to working together to achieve this.

**About the Role**:
The Environmental Health team is seeking an Environmental Health Student to assist in delivering the teams’ exciting portfolio of responsibilities. Most notably, the team is responsible for the delivery and coordination of all Environmental Health Statutory functions, including food safety, infectious disease control, tobacco control, community education and nuisance complaints.

This role is based on progressive learning under the support of the Environmental Health team and will perform with a limited level of autonomy to achieve unit outcomes.

You will be responsible for:

- Assisting Environmental Health Officers in delivering services to the community
- Providing a high standard of customer service to the community
- Providing high level administrative support to deliver services

**Key Selection Criteria**:
To be successful in this role, you will bring the following skills and competencies:

- Currently studying the Graduate Diploma of Environmental Health Practice or equivalent
- Ability to undertake investigations, prepare reports and correspondence as required
- Ability to work in a team as well as an individual
- Ability to manage time, set priorities, plan and organise one’s own work
- Victorian drivers licence

**Mandatory pre-employment requirements**:

- Be willing to undergo and complete a satisfactory criminal history check
- Provide or obtain an employment-based Working with Children check

**What we can offer you in return**:

- Dedicated Staff Wellbeing programs, events and gym membership discounts
- Learning and development opportunities so our people can grow and thrive
- A Parkland surrounded office that is only short 500m stroll to the beach
- Free onsite staff parking plus hybrid vehicles that employees can book for work related travel

If you are ready to be part of our incredible organisation, and you think this role is the right fit for you, then we look forward to finding out more about you and what you would bring to this role.

**How to apply**:

- To discover more about the role and responsibilities review the Position Description.
- If you require reasonable adjustment at any point throughout the recruitment process, then please do let us know by contacting the listed Hiring Manager**.**

**Applications close**: Tuesday 23 September, 11:55pm
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