Public Health Inspector

**Job Description**:
**Public Health Inspector (3)**

**Health Services - Health Protection**

**General Programs**

(2) 13 Month Contracts, Full Time

**Education and Information Team**

(1) 13 Month Contract, Full Time
- Do you have experience conducting _**_Public Health inspections?_**
- Do you possess sound knowledge of _**_various Acts, Regulations and Municipal By-laws as it directly relates to health inspections?_**
- Do you have _**_excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work with various internal and external stakeholders?_**

The public health inspector is responsible for delivering public health programs and services in the community. A variety of professional and technical skills are used to conduct inspections, investigate health hazards, conduct risk assessments, and enforce compliance with applicable legislation. They will lay charges, issue orders and exclusion letters as well as make appearances to testify in court.

In addition, the public health inspector investigates complaints and provides consultative and educational services to clients, assists with mentoring of practicum students, may be requested to participate in project working groups and performs a defined role in public health emergencies.

**General Programs Team position**

Reporting to a Supervisor, General Programs in Health Protection, with work potentially occurring in any of three local municipalities in Peel.

**In this role you will**:

- Conduct food service premise inspections
- Conduct rabies investigations
- Conduct recreational water premise inspections
- Conduct inspections of small drinking water systems
- Respond to emergency situations (water interruptions, power outage, fires, floods, etc.)
- Conduct special events inspections
- Conduct health hazard investigations
- Perform a defined role in public health emergencies
- Prepare response to Freedom of Information requests
- Investigate suspect food-borne illnesses and outbreaks
- Provide accurate and thorough documentation of activities, issue warnings and charges; prepare court case briefs and present evidence in legal proceedings
- Provide technical assessments of applicable building plans, investigate complaints, provide consultative and educational services to clients, including on various Acts, Regulations, and Guidelines
- Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias

**Education and Information Team position**

Reporting to the Supervisor of the Education and Information team, you will be responsible for inspections and investigations related to food safety and infection control and responding to public inquiries on the Environmental Health Contact Centre. In addition, planning, developing, and implementing environmental health educational and promotional programs, activities, and materials. This includes the Food Handler Certification course, presentations at in-service, other meetings, and related events.

**In this role you will**:

- Conduct food safety and infection control inspections
- Investigate communicable diseases
- Perform technical assessments while staffing the Environmental Health Contact Centre on rotation
- Provide consultative services and direction to clients on Environmental Health programs and health hazards in the community, including various Acts, Regulations, Guidelines, and municipal by-laws
- Use professional and technical skills to inspect and investigate health hazards, conduct risk assessments, and enforce compliance under various Acts, Regulations, Guidelines, and municipal by-laws for food safety, communicable disease investigation and control, infection control and health hazard investigation
- Perform technical assessments of applicable building plans, investigate complaints and provide consultative and educational services to clients
- Perform a defined role in public health emergencies, lay charges, issue orders and exclusion letters, prepare MFIPPA requests, prepare crown briefs and testify in court
- Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias

**Required Qualifications for both positions**:

- A university degree in applied science with a major/specialization in public health
- A Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspector’s certification
- A minimum of one year experience as a public health inspector; an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered
- Knowledge of the _Health Protection and Promotion Act_, Ontario Public Health Standards & Protocols, and other applicable legislation/regulations
- Experience conducting inspections and conducting communicable disease investigations
- Demonstrated strong judgment and investigative and problem-solving abilities
- Experience in enforcement (issuing orders and charges, preparing crown briefs, and testifying in court)