Trading Standards Officer

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.mooreoldham.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.

Key Responsibilities

• Effectively investigate complaints to proactively ensure high levels of compliance and respond to enforcement requests for assistance from other law enforcement services or regulators.
• Provide clear, comprehensive assistance and advice to traders / businesses under relevant legislation to support them 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

• Hold or be able to obtain the DTS, TSPD, DCATS (ideally including Legal Metrology), or a Consumer Law Degree or previous equivalent acceptable qualification.
• Experience providing specialist and technical advice, guidance and assistance within Trading Standards, tailoring information to specific queries and different levels of technical understanding.
• Proven track record of undertaking civil / criminal investigations or other relevant investigations, including preparation of robust investigation files.

Additional Information

Applications from weights and measures inspectors are particularly encouraged. 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 on how to obtain your Certificates of Good Character:

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

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.

Right to work in the UK from 1st July 2021.