Public Health Inspector

Public Health Inspector

**Job Number**:2021

**Job Type**: Temporary Full-Time
**Temp Contract Length**: Approximately 12 months (until Jan 30, 2026)
**Location**: 99 Regina Street, Waterloo, ON
**Number of Positions**:1
**Department**: Health Protection and Investigation
**Division**: Public Health and Paramedic Services
**Hours of Work**: 35 per week. Ability to work varying shifts including days, afternoons, evenings, and weekend hours and participate in an on-call rotation to provide coverage for public health demands outside of normal working hours. Occasionally required to alter working hours to conduct business or in emergency situations.
**Union**: CUPE 1883
**Grade**: CUPE 1883 Grade 015
**Salary Range**: $46.18 - $52.32 per hour**Posting Date**:December 3, 2024**Closing Date**:December 9, 2024**About Us**

The Region of Waterloo is a thriving, diverse community committed to fostering opportunities for current and future generations. Home to over 674,000 residents and expected to grow to nearly one million by 2051. Guided by our 2023-2027 Strategic Plan, “Growing with Care,” we focus on equity, inclusion, and sustainability. Our mission is to provide essential services that enhance the quality of life for all residents, while our core values emphasize caring for people and the land we share. Join us and be part of a team dedicated to making a meaningful difference in our community.

Dish with One Spoon Wampum:
- Waterloo Region is part of the Dish with One Spoon wampum, a treaty guiding our commitment to:
- Recognizing our shared humanity and land
- Taking only what we need
- Leaving some for others
- Keeping the dish clean
- This agreement underpins our vision, mission, and core values, and reinforces our dedication to meaningful reconciliation and equity.

**The Role**
- Protects individual and community health through promotion, education, and enforcement of Provincial legislation/guidelines and Regional policies/bylaws. Recognizes and responds to potential health hazards. Program areas include: food safety, infection prevention and control, rabies prevention and control, safe water (drinking and recreational), health hazard prevention and management, emergency preparedness and management, vector borne disease, personal services.

**Duties/Responsibilities**
- Conducts onsite health hazard risk and compliance assessments, investigations, and inspections. Investigates complaints. Recommends/provides direction for appropriate actions to be taken.
- Documents inspections and provides information to clients. Determines and communicates timeframes for compliance. Conducts re-inspections to monitor adherence.
- Collects and submits samples for analysis. Interprets lab results, notifies stakeholders, and initiates actions as necessary.
- Updates databases and maintains appropriate notes and documentation.
- Acts as a Provincial Offences Officer. Exercises authority to issue Provincial Offence notices, Summons, directives, orders, business closures. Prepares information for laying charges. Prepares and files court documentation; liaises with Legal Services; and acts as a witness, as required. Serves summons to witnesses, as required.
- Investigates and assesses potential rabies cases. Issues orders and follows up to ensure compliance with protocols and legislation. Provides consultation/support to physicians and the public regarding post-exposure prophylaxis. Arranges delivery of vaccine to physicians, as needed.
- Conducts active/passive surveillance activities (e.g., mosquitos, ticks), as required.
- Conducts outbreak investigations (e.g., enteric, respiratory, food and water-borne).. Acts as a resource and provides guidance to facilities to reduce/prevent the impact of outbreaks. Executes food product recalls and condemnations.
- Advises on equipment and layout requirements in architectural drawings for existing/ proposed food premises, personal service settings, and other facilities.
- Participates in the development and implementation of education and health promotion program strategies.
- Develops/participates in the development of educational resources (e.g., newsletters, fact sheets). Prepares and delivers training and presentations to groups and the public.
- Acts as a resource to staff, the public, agencies, and other professionals, and participates on internal and external committees.
- Maintains and safely handles testing apparatus, presentation equipment, and vaccines.
- Performs related duties as assigned.

**Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities**
- Knowledge of public health inspection and health promotion methods, problem solving, and investigative methods, acquired through a 4-year university degree (or equivalent such as a 2-year directly related degree plus a previous (possibly unrelated) university degree) plus 1 year of related experience (related work experience, student/practicum placements, or as an uncertified public health inspector, vector borne disease surveillance or beach