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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 sta昀昀 is through ongoing training and development provided
in-house and externally.
To meet this challenge, we currently have four Council employees about to complete the 昀椀nal
year of the Environmental Health Practitioner BSc (Hons) (Degree Apprenticeship) at University
Centre Weston.
This is developing our sta昀昀 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 two members of SCPHA are working in the professional 昀椀eld whilst studying
for a degree at the same time. The other recruit is working within Environmental Protection.
In 2021/23 we responded to the FSA’s revised 2021 Competency Framework by reviewing the
arrangements we have in place against the framework. O昀케cers with responsibility for carrying
out o昀케cial 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 o昀케cial 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 昀椀elds.
Two of our current apprentices,
Nikki Crisp and Hannah Gilson
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