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Carmel Hughes

Manchester,Select state

Summary

I am a committed professional with substantial experience in all areas of Environmental Health. I am dedicated to improving compliance standards through knowledgeable advice, good communication and engagement with businesses and communities.


I am hardworking and passionate about working in Manchester to achieve the outcomes required to keep our City Safe and a place where people want to live, work and visit.


I am committed to engaging with residential and business communities on their living and working environments as we continue to make available city accomodation and support our businesses and nightime ecomomy to thrive and create safe spaces for their customers and visitors.

Overview

30
30
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Principal Environmental Health Officer

Manchester City Council
Manchester, Manchester
04.2020 - Current
  • H&S and Business engagement, food safety, safety during events, enforcement, public health and outbreak control.
  • Managing the Central Food/H&Safety Neighbourhoods Team.
  • Lead Officer for H&S workplace settings
  • Lead Officer for Primary Authority Agreements with businesses and business engagement in partnership with Greater Manchester Centre of Excellence Better Business for all.
  • Lead Officer for Public Health and a member of the Steering Group.
  • Work closely with other managers, services and key partners, to ensure effective integrated working within and across the neighbourhood based teams.
  • Motivate and develop team members through effective performance management against key performance indicators, including the training and development of staff.
  • Ensure that the team effectively engages with residents, businesses, agencies, stakeholders and local communities in order to deliver safe working environments and neighbourhoods making best use of the wide range of skills and resources.
  • Ensure that appropriate systems are in place and are used effectively to record, retain and enable the sharing of data and that all activities are auditable.
  • Managing the team's health and wellbeing and work development plans.
  • Contributed to planning and reviewing database development.
  • Contribute to reports detailing service outcomes and implications on ongoing projects.
  • Advise Businesses and internal/external agencies on regulatory compliance
  • Produce procedures and operation guides for Officers
  • Managed the Environmental Health Covid Response Service including Contact Tracing, workplace Outbreaks, engagement with communities and Faith communities.
  • Tactical Officer Silver Out of Hours Emergency Response

Environmental Health Officer

Manchester City Council
Manchester, Manchester
04.2016 - 04.2020


  • Undertaking work in the Food, Health and Safety and Airport Team in Compliance & Enforcement.
  • Food hygiene registration visits and programmed inspections, responding to service requests and food poisoning outbreaks, undertaking investigations and sampling.
  • auditing approved fish and meat manufacturing processes within Manchester
  • Undertaking food standards inspections assessing allergen management and food labelling,
  • Responding to health and safety service requests,
  • Iinvestigated RIDDOR accident referrals.
  • Work for the Out of Hours service enforcing Imported Food Control at Manchester Airport BCP.
  • worked with the Co-operative Group Limited as their lead Food Hygiene Primary Authority Officer Lead and represented the business and Manchester City Council at national officer supermarket meetings for the largest supermarket groups in the UK.
  • Work across services with other colleagues and external agencies such as the HSE, The fire Authority, FSA and others on inter regulatory risk based projects

Food Hygiene Consultant

Self Employed
North West, Manchester
04.2015 - 04.2016
  • Advised businesses on required works and associated costs to improve workplace safety and food hygiene ratings
  • Provided solutions and implementation plans for health, hygiene and food labelling issues.
  • Maintained in-depth knowledge of statutory and legislative industry developments.
  • Educated employers on preventative measures to avoid occupational and environmental failings.
  • Presented report findings to management with suggested improvement strategies.
  • Trained staff through courses and resources covering relevant food, health and safety standards.
  • Wrote detailed inspection reports to communicate business strengths and weaknesses.
  • Consulted businesses on strategies to tackle compliance concerns.
  • Implemented proper waste storage and disposal measures to manage refuse.

Principal Environmental Health Officer

Warrington BC
Warringtom, Cheshire
04.2001 - 04.2015
  • Managing the public health section, pest control service, dog warden and animal health service.
  • Managed the financial aspect of providing pest control contracts to local businesses, the sewer baiting programme in partnership with United Utilities,
  • Procured and tendered for stray dog kennelling contracts, upgraded leasing agreements for new pest control vans, worked on the content for and delivery and roll out of zoonotic animal health disease contingency plans such as Foot and Mouth, rabies, Avian Flu
  • Worked with the Trading Standards Institute (TSI) as an animal health log book assessor.
  • Monitored service delivery and performance, undertaking I 2 1s,
  • Represented the council at regional technical working groups and deputised for the Service Manager.
  • Maintained up-to-date knowledge of Regulations to offer best possible compliance advice.
  • Promoted safe working practices, enabling staff safety and wellbeing.
  • Served legal notices and recorded infringements of regulations for prosecution purposes.
  • Collected and prepared legal evidence for submission to courts.
  • Prepared risk assessments in line with safety guidelines for high risk operations.

Senior Environmental Health Officer

Oldham MBC
Oldham, Oldham
04.1996 - 04.2001
  • Led on Local Air Pollution Control
  • Undertook service requests and enforcement of nuisance due to air and noise pollution
  • Worked on setting up the contaminated land database
  • A statutory consultee presenting reports to planning committees, consulting on and presenting reports to licensing committee.
  • Enforcing evictions of illegal traveller encampments.
  • Worked on prosecutions, served legal notices, gave evidence at public inquiries, seized and detained equipment.
  • Presentations to Businesses and Universities
  • Representative on the regional pollution group and worked with DEFRA on policy working groups for Local Air Pollution Control.


Environmental Health Officer

Warrington BC
Warrington, Warrington
04.1993 - 04.1996
  • Investigated nuisance - air, land water
  • Developed the local contaminated land data base
  • Undertook legal proceedings and recommended prosecutions
  • Applied to Magistrates Court for warrants to prevent noise nuisance
  • Undertook Emergency Response training
  • Joint working on European funded contaminated land projects.
  • Represented the Service at Council meetings and public consultations Represented the Council at Regional Meetings

Education

Bachelor of Science - Environmental Health

Salford University
09.1989 - 07.1993

Bachelor of Science - Environmental Science

Plymouth University, Plymouth
09.1985 - 07.1988

Master of Science - Environmental Protection

Salford University
09.1994 - 07.1996

Diploma of Higher Education - Acoustics

Leeds Metropolitan University
09.1998 - 07.1999

Skills

  • Strategic planning
  • Staff Management
  • Resource Allocation
  • Multidisciplinary teamwork

Timeline

Principal Environmental Health Officer - Manchester City Council
04.2020 - Current
Environmental Health Officer - Manchester City Council
04.2016 - 04.2020
Food Hygiene Consultant - Self Employed
04.2015 - 04.2016
Principal Environmental Health Officer - Warrington BC
04.2001 - 04.2015
Leeds Metropolitan University - Diploma of Higher Education, Acoustics
09.1998 - 07.1999
Senior Environmental Health Officer - Oldham MBC
04.1996 - 04.2001
Salford University - Master of Science, Environmental Protection
09.1994 - 07.1996
Environmental Health Officer - Warrington BC
04.1993 - 04.1996
Salford University - Bachelor of Science, Environmental Health
09.1989 - 07.1993
Plymouth University - Bachelor of Science, Environmental Science
09.1985 - 07.1988

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