Classification: Health Professional Level 3
Salary: $111,639 - $120,057 (up to $126,060 on achieving a personal upgrade) plus superannuation
Position No: 56848
Directorate: Health and Community Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 21 July 2026
Contact Officer: Lyndell Hudson on [email protected] or (02) 5124 6125
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 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.
Health and Community Services Directorate (HCSD) is an inclusive employer where all people are respected and valued for their contribution. We strongly encourage and welcome applications from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, People with Disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people.
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).
Applicants with a Bachelor of Applied Science with demonstrated/work experience as an Environmental Health Officer may be considered.
Note: A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months.
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. Applications 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. Please ensure applications are no longer than two pages.
Applications should be submitted .
Note: Under the ACTPS employment framework you may be placed in another role where required for the efficient administration of the service.
The ACT public service is committed to closing the gap, underpinned by the belief that when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a genuine say in the design and delivery of policies, programs and services that affect them, better life outcomes are achieved. More information can be found here ACT Closing the Gap Implementation Plan - ACT Government Transparency Portal.
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