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RESOURCES
4.3 Staff Development Plan
Our workforce is at the heart of everything we do. One of the ways we support the
development and competence of staf is through ongoing training and development provided
in-house and externally.
To meet this challenge, we have currently have four Council employees about to start the
fourth year of the Environmental Health Practitioner BSc (Hons) (Degree Apprenticeship) at
University Centre Weston.
This is developing our staf and helping to address the challenge of recruiting environmental
health practitioners in the future. Having started with a September 2021 enrolment on the
Environmental Health Practitioner Apprenticeship (Level 6), one member of the Food and
Safety Team and one member of SCPHA are working in the professional oeld whilst studying
for a degree at the same time. Other recruits are working within Environmental Protection.
In 2021/23 we responded to the FSA9s revised 2021 Competency Framework by reviewing the
arrangements we have in place against the framework. Oïcers with responsibility for carrying
out oïcial controls maintain their own competency framework record, which is developed as
further knowledge and skills are acquired.
We will continue to work in partnership with our colleagues in SCPHA to meet competency
requirements, given that we all carry out oïcial controls.
Environmental Health Practitioner
Apprenticeship (Level 6)
The four-year course has been developed
through consultation with the Chartered
Institute of Environmental Health and the
Institute for Apprenticeships, along with
employers from a range of public and
environmental health related oelds.
Two of our current apprentices,
Nikki Crisp and Hannah Gilson
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