Trading Standards Officer/ Admin

What's involved with this role: Interim Trading Standards Officer/ Admin  Reference no: Devon 5260086 Pay Rate: up to £20.20 per hour PAYE DOE 37 Monday – Friday, 08:30 - 17:00 This opening assignment is for 3 months City: EXETER Standard DBS disclosure required Combination of home and office working. Key responsibilities: Enforcement of a wide range of legislation administered by the Trading Standards Service. Carry out visits to businesses for investigation and advice purposes Respond to requests for business advice from traders. Investigate complaints as required. Deal with complex advice to businesses, resolving any issues to ensure compliance Run a variety of projects within the service business plan, to successful conclusions Where breaches of law are discovered the job holder will advise traders on how to rectify matters.  Maintain a working knowledge of the legislation enforced by the department and a deep knowledge in their working area Lead in relation to a service area or areas, developing knowledge and driving work to achieve results Maintain a record of inspections, complaints and enquiries received. Input and retrieve data from Service’s databases.  Key requirements: TS Practitioner Diploma or DCATS or DTS or DCA Parts 1&2 or equivalent professional qualifications 5 GCSEs at grade C (Grade 4) or above - or their equivalent - (inc Maths & English Language) Detailed knowledge of some specialist legislative areas  Quality Control, audit and investigative experience showing clear results Excellent communication skills Ability to assimilate quickly complex written, verbal or pictorial information Ability to produce comprehensive & clear written or verbal reports on complex issues and to present information effectively Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. ***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document. Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work.  It will help your application if your CV states,  in broad terms ,   where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us directly via by quoting the job reference and exact job title. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please