Place & Economic Growth Directorate

Trading Standards and Animal Welfare

Trading Standards Officer / Senior Trading Standards Officer (Career Graded Role)

Ref: 001341

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £39,152 to £42,839 (Grade 7 Trading Standards Officer) and £42,839 to £47,181 (Grade 8 Senior Trading Standards Officer) career graded role and progression subject to a candidate’s education, qualifications and experience.

Hours: 36.66 per week with the flexibility of hot desking / home working and field-based work.

Location: Sir Robert Peacock House, Vulcan Street, Oldham, OL1 4LA

Closing Date: Monday 16th March 2026

Interview Date: TBC.

Hiring Manager: Daniel Moore, Trading Standards and Animal Welfare Manager, daniel.moore@oldham.gov.uk

Role Overview:

We’re looking for two enthusiastic and committed Officers (Trading Standards Officers / Senior Trading Standards Officers) who can work both on their own initiative and as part of our dedicated team, contributing to our aims of protecting consumers and supporting businesses.

Our Trading Standards and Animal Welfare Team protects consumers and ensures fair business by enforcing regulations on consumer protection, fair trading, product safety, tobacco control, doorstep crime and scams, metrology, underage sales, animal welfare and licensing, animal feed and more.

Join our Trading Standards and Animal Welfare Team as an Officer with the opportunity to have a varied workload involving enforcement, inspections, advice, surveys and project work. The successful applicant will be experienced in overseeing complex criminal investigations.

The x2 roles are career graded and so there is the option of joining us as either a Trading Standards Officer or a Senior Trading Standard Officer, subject to an applicants’ education, qualifications and experience.

What do we need?

Please check the person specification and ensure you can meet all of the essential criteria for the Grade 7 post (Trading Standards Officer) or Grade 8 post (Senior Trading Standards Officer). Please ensure you evidence all the essential criteria and as many of the desirable criteria as possible in your application. Applications from weights and measures inspectors are particularly encouraged.

Key Responsibilities:

• To effectively investigate complaints to proactively ensure high levels of compliance and to respond to enforcement requests for assistance from other law enforcement services or regulators.
• To provide clear, comprehensive assistance and advice to traders / businesses under relevant legislation to support businesses into compliance, including through Primary Authority work.
• Encourage co-operative working by developing external relationships with Government Agencies, the business community and a wide range of partners to improve the effectiveness of the Service and work with multi agency colleagues to protect the public.

Key Requirements:

You will hold the DTS, TSPD, DCATS (ideally including Legal Metrology), Consumer Law Degree or previous equivalent acceptable qualification.

You will have experience of providing specialist and technical advice, guidance and assistance to others within the subject matter of Trading Standards, including tailoring the information to specific queries, or to different levels of technical understanding.

You will have a proven track record of undertaking civil / criminal investigations or conducting other forms of relevant investigation including the preparation of robust investigation files.

About Us:

We want Oldham to have vibrant, safe neighbourhoods where people are proud to live with opportunities for healthier, more fulfilled lives; and a sustainable, thriving economy. As we look to the future, the challenges may be significant, but so are the opportunities. We’ve identified three missions with our residents and partners, focusing on what will deliver the biggest impact:

A Great Place to Live, Healthier, Happier Lives, and Green and Growing.

We’re looking for candidates who will support us to achieve our ambitions and we encourage you to download our Corporate Plan: Ready for the Future and our Oldham Plan for further information.

Our Values and Behaviours:

By driving innovation, investing in our people, and championing our communities, we will ensure that Oldham continues to be a place where everyone can live their best life. To support this, we have three core values which define who we are and how we operate. These are ‘Proud, Ambitious, and Together’, and they shape our culture, inform our decisions, and inspire us to deliver on our commitments to the people of Oldham.

We have translated these values into five behaviours which guide our actions and are the standards we hold ourselves to, day in and day out:

• Work with a resident focus
• Support local leaders
• Committed to the borough
• Delivery high performance
• Take ownership and drive change

You can find out more about our values and behaviours on our greater.jobs Oldham page

Our Benefits Package:

At Oldham Council we offer a great benefits package for our employees, which includes the following:

• 25 days annual leave which increases after 5 and 10-years’ service
• The option to purchase additional annual leave.
• An attractive LGPS benefit pension scheme with the option to make shared cost additional voluntary contributions.
• Discounted gym membership with Oldham Active.
• Staff discount scheme for shopping, entertainment, eating-out, eating-in, travel, motoring and more.
• Salary sacrifice scheme for home and electronics and Cycle to Work.
• Wellbeing support, including a Mental Health First Aider network and an Employment Assistance Programme that provides 24 hours access to advice and support.
• Staff recognition and celebration events.
• Peer support groups

Inclusive Recruitment:

We work closely with employees to help them work at their best, including making adjustments such as flexible working, describing available working patterns, providing equipment or making changes to the workplace.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and therefore expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

If you have lived or worked abroad for 3 months or more in the last 5 years or 12 months or more (whether continuously or in total) in the last 10 years whilst aged 18 or over, please refer to the link below for details for how to obtain your Certificates of Good Character. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application.

If you’re an applicant with disabilities and have previously been in or currently in care, a carer, someone who has served in the Armed Forces, or you’ve participated in the GM Elevate Programme, and you meet the essential criteria of the role, you are guaranteed to reach the first stage of assessment under our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme.

Data and Privacy:

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Important Information:

Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for a current employee at risk of redundancy, it can be pulled back at any point, up to the post being formally offered to a candidate who is not at risk of redundancy.

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