Website Overbery District Municipality
Overberg District Municipality is a category C municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Its name, meaning "over the mountains," refers to its location beyond the Hottentots-Holland mountains when viewed from Cape Town.
Overberg District Municipality is a category C municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Its name, meaning “over the mountains,” refers to its location beyond the Hottentots-Holland mountains when viewed from Cape Town. The municipality includes significant towns such as Grabouw, Caledon, Hermanus, Bredasdorp, and Swellendam.
Requirements:
- A relevant tertiary qualification, preferably a National Diploma in Environmental Health or a BTech Degree in Environmental Health.
- Proof of registration as an Environmental Health Practitioner with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA).
- Minimum of two (2) to five (5) years relevant experience.
- Law enforcement/ Peace Officer certificate will be an advantage.
- Completed one (1) year community services.
- Relevant knowledge of in Environmental Health legislations (National, Provincial, Local) including interpretation and application thereof.
- Full knowledge of Municipal Health Services; Theories and principles of Health Promotion; Project Management; Interpretation of laboratory results relating to food and water samples; Air
- Quality Act 39 of 2004; Municipal Systems Act and applicable national, provincial, and local regulations and by-laws; National atmospheric emission licensing system; and National atmospheric emission inventory system; Valid Code B driver’s license.
- Computer literacy (Microsoft Office applications). Environmental Health Practitioners may be expected to serve more than one
- Municipal Area and can be placed anywhere in the district.
Other requirements:
- Full knowledge of communicable diseases, including signs, symptoms and how communicable diseases related to Environmental Health can be spread in communities.
- Applicants must be literate in at least two of the three Official languages of the Western Cape.
- Applicants must have own transport/vehicle.
Responsibilities/ Duties:
- The incumbent is responsible to conduct Municipal Health Services inspections.
- Water quality monitoring.
- Waste management monitoring.
- Health surveillance of premises.
- Surveillance and prevention of communicable diseases, excluding immunizations.
- Food control, Vector Control and Environmental pollution control.
- Disposal of dead.
- Chemical Safety Law Enforcement and Air Quality.
