Trainee Trading Standards Officer - Level 6 Apprenticeship
Warwickshire County Council
Warwick (CV35 7DP)
Closes in 13 days (Monday 1 September 2025)
Posted on 18 August 2025
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Summary
Are you interested in a career in consumer protection, regulation, and enforcement? We are offering a fantastic opportunity for you to start your new career as a Trading Standards Professional as we look to recruit the next generation of Trading Standards Officers.
- Wage
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£25,584 a year
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Rising to £27,269 per annum
- Training course
- Trading standards professional (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, general office hours e.g. 9am - 5pm.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 27 October 2025
- Duration
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4 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Under the supervision/direction of a Trading Standards Officer:
Deliver intelligence-led Trading Standards compliance programmes, utilising a range of preventative and enforcement options, including:
- Providing advice and information to businesses on compliance with Trading Standards laws
- Providing advice, information and assistance to vulnerable consumers
- Examining/inspecting, sampling, testing of goods, services and procedures/practices
- Researching and investigating traders/trade practices
- Producing written reports, compiling evidential files, giving evidence in Court
- Utilising innovative/alternative enforcement actions where appropriate
- Comply with applicable statutory and organisational procedural requirements and best practice
- Update service records and submit intelligence logs in a timely fashion, disseminate information and intelligence appropriately, ensure confidentiality and security of sensitive information
- Work independently and/or collaboratively with a team and/or external partners
- Develop and maintain up-to-date knowledge and skills in relevant areas of legislation and professional practice
Where you'll work
Old Budbrooke Road
Warwick
CV35 7DP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
CSA (SERVICES) LTD
Training course
Trading standards professional (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Lead and manage investigations and interventions.
- Apply investigative techniques and evidence gathering to produce reports with recommendations.
- Analyse, interpret, challenge, and evaluate data and intelligence.
- Interpret and apply relevant Acts, Regulations, Codes of Practice and Guidance in the consumer protection environment.
- Influence, negotiate and challenge stakeholders in the delivery and decision-making process.
- Use research, analytical and problem-solving techniques to resolve and prevent consumer protection issues.
- Conduct and/or respond to formal interviews in line with legal controls and best practice collaborating with legal representatives.
- Gather evidence for use for potential legal proceedings and acting as a witness when required.
- Make legal and tactical decisions to improve the outcomes in consumer protection investigations.
- Promote the improvement of compliance standards in consumer protection.
- Promote social inclusion in the workplace with businesses, stakeholders, and consumers.
- Promote environmental sustainability and support change to improve the environment.
- Lead and manage operational projects to achieve time dependent outcomes.
- Communicate complex information, best practice, and guidance in consumer protection, adapting delivery for different audiences.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to achieve agreed collective outcomes.
- Identify and apply industry developments to achieve continual service improvement.
- Lead the development and monitoring of financial strategies and setting of organisational budgets based on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) or similar, and challenge financial assumptions underpinning strategies.
- Build constructive working relationships across teams.
- Identify the training and development requirements of the team and stakeholders.
- Set strategic direction through the implementation of plans.
- Lead and respond to risks using risk management techniques.
- Provide support, specialist advice, and guidance for businesses, consumers, and stakeholders.
- Act as an advocate for projects and transformation of services across organisational boundaries such as those impacted by sustainability and the UK Net Carbon Zero.
- Lead and manage investigations and interventions.
- Apply investigative techniques and evidence gathering to produce reports with recommendations.
- Analyse, interpret, challenge, and evaluate data and intelligence.
- Interpret and apply relevant Acts, Regulations, Codes of Practice and Guidance in the consumer protection environment.
- Influence, negotiate and challenge stakeholders in the delivery and decision-making process.
- Use research, analytical and problem-solving techniques to resolve and prevent consumer protection issues.
- Conduct and/or respond to formal interviews in line with legal controls and best practice collaborating with legal representatives.
- Gather evidence for use for potential legal proceedings and acting as a witness when required.
- Make legal and tactical decisions to improve the outcomes in consumer protection investigations.
- Promote the improvement of compliance standards in consumer protection.
- Promote social inclusion in the workplace with businesses, stakeholders, and consumers.
- Promote environmental sustainability and support change to improve the environment.
- Lead and manage operational projects to achieve time dependent outcomes.
- Communicate complex information, best practice, and guidance in consumer protection, adapting delivery for different audiences.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to achieve agreed collective outcomes.
- Identify and apply industry developments to achieve continual service improvement.
- Lead the development and monitoring of financial strategies and setting of organisational budgets based on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) or similar, and challenge financial assumptions underpinning strategies.
- Build constructive working relationships across teams.
- Identify the training and development requirements of the team and stakeholders.
- Set strategic direction through the implementation of plans.
- Lead and respond to risks using risk management techniques.
- Provide support, specialist advice, and guidance for businesses, consumers, and stakeholders.
- Act as an advocate for projects and transformation of services across organisational boundaries such as those impacted by sustainability and the UK Net Carbon Zero.
Training schedule
Full training will be provided for all aspects of this role, and you will also be able to take advantage of the extensive training course opportunities open to all Warwickshire County Council staff. The skills, knowledge and behaviours learned on the job will enable you to complete the Level 6 Trainee Trading Standards Officer, for which you will be given time to complete in your working hours and through training provided by CSA Services Ltd. The delivery of this apprenticeship is a mixture of work-based portfolio building, plus workshops with CSA Ltd (delivered online) and associated assignments to complete.
More training information
https://www.csa-uk.com/mpage/l6-trading-standards-tobaccovapes
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade A* - C / 9 - 4)
- Maths (grade A* - C / 9 - 4)
Desirable qualifications
A Level in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
Other requirements
This role may occasionally require working evenings or weekends, for which time in lieu will be provided, but please acknowledge this is a requirement of the role.
About this employer
Warwickshire County Council is the local government authority for the county of Warwickshire, providing public services such as Social Care, Education, County Highways, Rural Services, Public Health, Fire and Rescue, plus much more. Since 2012 the Council has delivered a top class apprenticeship scheme, recruiting more than 380 apprentices, most of whom have been retained in further roles at the Council.
http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk (opens in new tab)
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
You will undertake the Level 6 Trading Standards Professional Apprenticeship and will have the opportunity to continue developing beyond your qualification through specific training.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Warwickshire County Council
Mike Chambers
mikechambers@warwickshire.gov.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000337662.
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Closes in 13 days (Monday 1 September 2025)
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