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We have an exciting opportunity for a Food Retail Facilities/ Compliance Officer role for a food retail company based in London. Our client is one of the UK's leading East Asian food retailers. As a Compliance Officer, you will be responsible for the Facilities team and ensuring a safe working and compliant atmosphere for our customers and staff. This involves compliance with legislation and processes relating to health and safety, food protection, regulatory, contractual, and business.



Required Qualifications & Experience :

Must have a minimum of 2 years of experience in a similar legal compliance/facility role.
Food Safety Level 3 or H&S trained to the IOSH standard.
Experience in operating within a commercial food environment.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, communicate clearly with the store managers, senior managers, and all staff.
Able to write and analyze legislation and respond accordingly.
Intermediate Excel skills and basic Word skills.
Strong communication and negotiation skills to liaise with contractors.
Capability to work unsupervised and take responsibility.
Able to remain calm under pressure.
Detailed and flexible in both written skills and time management.
Good organizational skills.
Revised Job Responsibilities
Responsibilities

Manage Food Safety and ensure that the Food Safety Policy is adhered to in all stores.
Responsible for Health and safety issues and ensuring a safe working and compliant environment for both staff and customers.
Manage fire safety, pest control, maintenance, cleaning, and security, and maximize the efficiency of internal resources.
Carry out monthly Health and Safety and Food Safety audits to check policies and procedures are being properly implemented for each site, and provide a detailed action plan to manage any non-compliance with the urgency required.
Carry out Health & Safety and Food Safety Risk Assessments and consider how risks can be reduced; develop internal policy and keep documents up to date and retained according to legislation.
Lead in-house training with managers and employees on Health and Safety risks and Food Safety; liaise with Human Resources to keep training materials and key officers up-to-date.
Ensure working practices are safe and comply with legislation.
Meet with EHO inspectors and local authority officials and follow up on any issues raised.
Record incidents and accidents and ensure RIDDOR is followed.
Manage specialist areas, e.g. fire regulations, asbestos, hazardous substances, safeguarding machinery, food safety, and vehicles.
Keep up to date with new legislation and maintain policies of all Health and Safety Executive (HSE) legislation and Food Safety and any developments that will affect store operations. Update and maintain policies.
Ensure stores have all the relevant licenses in place and keep updated.
Undertake any other reasonable duties as required to meet the needs of the business.
Referrals

If you know anyone who may be suitable for the above role, feel free to get in contact with the Mandarin Recruitment team. We will ensure a healthy referral bonus.

About Us

Mandarin Recruitment is a service that helps UK and Chinese businesses & organizations find and source high-quality Mandarin-speaking professionals. We have unparalleled and exclusive channels to the Chinese-speaking market, allowing us to be the leading organization for specialist Mandarin recruitment.

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Flexible Location: Based throughout Scotland, NES is a remote friendly employer supporting office and hybrid working. We’re happy to talk about how you want to work.

Work Pattern: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week

Fixed-term or Secondment** until 31 March 2026

**For NHS applicants, an NHS secondment will be offered in the first instance. For non-NHS applicants, a fixed-term or secondment would be considered.

You must have eligibility and entitlement to work in the UK which is required to be maintained throughout your period of employment.



Who We Are

NHS Education for Scotland (NES) is the national health board with statutory responsibilities to effect sustainable change through workforce development, education and training across the health and social care system in Scotland, while working at UK level with partner organisations.

NES Technology Service (NTS) has created a strategic programme for the transformation of digital based services to allow NES to become a leading digital organisation in Scottish Health, digital by default and fully aligned with the Scottish Government’s technology strategies.



The Opportunity

To enable delivery of the NES Strategy 2023-2026, and assist NTS in our contribution to delivering against the Scottish Government Digital Health and Care Strategy and Data Strategy, NTS is seeking two highly skilled and motivated Assurance Officers to provide specialist support to the Digital Front Door (DFD) programme (https://www.digihealthcare.scot/our-work/digital-front-door).

Do you want to play an important role in ensuring the delivery of a robust foundation for the accountability, transparency, and secure use of data/information in the delivery of the DFD programme?

Do you enjoy working in a multi-disciplinary team at the edge of technological innovations?

Do you want to play an important role in ensuring that citizens data within in the DFD programme is appropriately processed and securely and lawfully used?

Do you want to play an important role in delivering the NES Strategy, Digital Health and Care Strategy and Data Strategy for Scotland?

Do you enjoy working at pace and being adaptive to an ever-changing environment?

Working within the NTS Assurance Team you will have the opportunity to provide comprehensive information assurance support to the Digital Front Door programme, ensuring the programme meets it compliance and assurance obligations.

Does this sound like you?



What We Love to See

Assurance Officers can offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:

Proven experience in the implementation and evaluation of business/management processes and systems from an information assurance perspective
An understanding of legalisation that impacts on information assurance
Experience or understanding of the field of Information Governance and Data Protection would be beneficial
Highly effective communicator knowing how to make complex technical information and language simple for diverse senior and external stakeholders (both verbally and in writing)
Ability to collaborate effectively and build networks and communities of practice
Demonstrate honesty, integrity, care and compassion when dealing with others, utilising tact and persuasion skills when necessary
Ability to work on own initiative, to organise and prioritise own workloads and to meet strict deadlines



Benefits Which Matter

As a valued employee of NHS Scotland, you can enjoy an extensive range of benefits including:

Life-work balance - with opportunities for flexible working and remote working
Generous NHS pension scheme
Annual incremental salary progression (up to the maximum of the salary band) plus annual NHS salary scale review
Annual Leave - 27 Days increasing in line with service plus 8 days public holiday
NHS discounts and more



Diversity and Inclusion

Developing a successful national service for Scotland is impossible without ensuring we consider the diverse needs, perspectives and backgrounds of everyone in Scotland in our work.

We are focused on hiring the very best talent available for NES, and actively encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and aim to ensure everyone is treated fairly, with respect and has a positive recruitment experience – regardless of the outcome.

It’s not essential to be in an Assurance Officer role right now. You may be returning from a career break (e.g. maternity, paternity, caring for others) or returning after working in another field. Your experiences elsewhere can bring a fresh perspective to our work.

If you are considering applying and feel it would be helpful to discuss this initially, please contact tracey.gill@nhs.scot



Next Steps

**NHS candidates will be considered firstly on a secondment basis, and so are strongly encouraged to discuss this with their current NHS employer at the earliest opportunity, ideally prior to application.

Our recruitment process is currently 100% remote and if successful you would initially work remotely, working from our offices as operationally required.

All applicants who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail.

Online interviews (including presentation) will take place between 18 and 21 December 2023. The presentation topic will be sent to candidates selected for interview.

For further information please refer to the Job Information Pack below.

Unless otherwise stated the deadline for applications is 23:59 hours on the closing date. Please note, CV’s will not be accepted.

If you have any queries regarding the application portal or the recruitment process, please contact us at: NES HR Recruitment: EoS.ERRS@nhs.scot

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