A career in the Trading Standards Service is exciting and challenging. As a Trading Standards professional, you will have a considerable impact on the lives of people around you and make a difference to the world we live in.

The service helps to ensure that the public, and honest business, are protected from rogue traders and illegal practices.

The service undertakes work in areas such as:

• Animal health and welfare
• Counterfeiting
• Fair trading
• Food safety
• Product safety

There are many types of vacancies within Trading Standards, such as:

Trading Standards Officer (TSO)
TSO's are legally qualified officers who enforce the full range of duties within the service. Many of these officers are recruited from the four universities that offer specific degrees in this area. TSOs lead a varied existence and visit nearly every type of commercial undertaking within their area. This is not only to make sure that businesses comply with the law, but also to give them detailed legal advice and support.

Fair Trading Officer (FTO)
These officers carry out a range of specialist duties, in a similar way to trading standards officers. They may not have a specific qualification in trading standards or consumer law, but can be recruited from a wide variety of backgrounds. There are mechanisms in place to allow such officers to progress, with further study, to the position of a Trading Standards Officer.

How do you join Trading Standards?
There are always vacancies within Trading Standards around the UK. To find a list of the current vacancies, click on the TS Careers link on the right hand side of this page.

Alternatively, if you are interested in working for Cambridgeshire Trading Standards Service, you can keep an eye on the County Council jobs pages, by using the link on the right.