Job Details:

Salary range: £56,436 - £66,084 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience 
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP 
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent 
Closing date: 11 May 2026
Interview date: 26 and 27 May 2026

About Us:

The Extraordinary Story Of Kudzy’s Travels.

Environmental Health at Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories, where passionate and expert professionals go above and beyond for their colleagues every day.

Kudzy knows the streets of Westminster like the back of her hand. Her office can be anywhere. Market stalls, spas, carnivals, hotels, even backstage at an Adele concert. She’s travelled more than most have in a lifetime without leaving Westminster. She’s an Environmental Health Officer like no other. But, for her, seeing the difference her work makes to communities is the real highlight. For some, it’s financial lifelines, for others it’s the open sign on the restaurant they’ve always dreamed of. For Kudzy, it’s the smiles on her customers’ faces. 

The Role:

As a Principal Officer (Acoustics) in our Public Protection and Licensing directorate, you can make your own powerful contribution to people across Westminster. Championing the highest environmental standards for noise and air quality across development projects, you’ll support our residents and businesses by helping mitigate the impact of construction on communities.

Responsible for undertaking high-profile and complex casework, you’ll act as a reliable and expert source of technical knowledge within the team. From scrutinising acoustic reports to assessing construction-noise mitigation measures, your day-to-day will be varied and complex. Ensuring compliance, effective allocation of resources and robust risk management, you’ll work closely with team leaders to translate Council objectives into effective plans.

Putting our residents at the heart of everything you do, you’ll work collaboratively alongside colleagues at all levels of the Council and beyond to maintain a highly effective service that delivers great value for its residents. You’ll also act as the go-to source for best-practice advice, staying up to date with new legislation, regulations and guidance.

Lastly, as a motivating and highly knowledgeable expert, you’ll supervise and mentor less experienced members of the team, providing expert guidance to help them to develop their expertise. 

Please refer to the Job Description for more information.

About You:

An experienced professional with a degree or diploma in Environmental Health or similar, you’ll have significant expertise in responding to complex, high-profile and political complaints in an Environmental Health discipline.

Having worked in a previous role that required you to make effective decisions with an awareness of reputational risk management, you’ll be confident implementing and overseeing quality and assurance processes and reporting frameworks.

You’ll maintain high standards for yourself and for your team, with the ability to drive performance, develop capability and productivity, and deliver efficiencies. When communicating with stakeholders and the public, you’ll do so effectively and with expert knowledge, handling competing interests and challenging situations with tact and to the benefit of the community.

On a personal level, you’ll be a true team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. This is a fantastic opportunity to help shape a team putting people and the environment first. Reducing the impact of construction on residents and business across Westminster is both a vital and deeply rewarding service — and this role offers a unique opportunity to grow your career within a tight-knit, industry-leading team.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority ( GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' ( formally known as B.A.M.E , Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants,  we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit  https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.