Job Description

Salary: 31,537 to 34,434 per annum

Grade: H

Vacancy Hours: Full Time, 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Northallerton, North Yorkshire

The Service

Our Trading Standards Service protects the residents and businesses of North Yorkshire, along with its visitors, from harmful and unfair trading practices. Following the retirement of the current postholder, this is a rare opportunity to join the team responsible for managing the Service's prosecution cases and court work.

What You'll Do:

You would be involved in case reports from the review stage, through to making applications for summonses, right up to trial and subsequent confiscation hearings. You would liaise with courts, prosecution barristers, defence solicitors, defendants in person and witnesses, ensuring court deadlines are met for the service of evidence bundles, schedules of unused material and other documents, and that witnesses and prosecution representatives attend court hearings.

What We're Looking For:

If you have some experience of working in a similar role in criminal litigation this role would provide a perfect opportunity to expand your skills and knowledge into the prosecution of offences relating to the supply of unsafe consumer goods, counterfeit goods and unfair trading. Recent cases have included the underage sales of vapes, possession for sale of counterfeit tobacco and illegal vapes, installation of an unsafe woodburning stove, sales of unroadworthy and misdescribed cars, sale of unsafe fireworks and unsafe storage of fireworks, substitution of alcoholic drinks, and animal health and welfare offences, as well as fraud and conspiracy to defraud.

What can we offer you?

In addition to your salary, we offer a range of great benefits to help you financially and make life a bit easier.



These include:


a local government pension scheme with 18.1% employer contribution salary sacrifice schemes employee discount benefits including shopping, supermarkets, gym discounts and more! travel loans Health Assured - confidential help and support for your wellbeing




For an informal discussion about this role please contact Jo Boutflower on 01609 534832 or by email to jo.boutflower@northyorks.gov.uk.

Key Documents

Total Rewards brochure

Key Dates

Closing Date: 16 November 2025



Interview Date: 21 November 2025



Venue for Interview The Old Courthouse, Racecourse Lane, Northallerton DL7 8QZ





NYC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.



We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to this commitment.



North Yorkshire Councils' purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other's contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.

Prosecution Process Officer

Salary:

31,537 - 34,434

Posted:

29/10/2025

Closing date:

16/11/2025

Closing time:

23:59