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Food Premises Inspection Higher Certificate: Level 5

Course Summary

This qualification provides the academic learning required to gain the Higher Certificate in Food Premises Inspection awarded by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH). Any Environmental Health Assistant or Technician who wishes to develop their career in Food Premises Inspection, must, according to the current Food Standard Agency Code of Practice, be in possession of an Ordinary or Higher Certificate in Food Premises Inspection awarded by the Environmental Health Registration Board. This course is designed to prepare you for the examinations for this Higher Certificate.


Applicants must have HND/BSc Honours QAA FHEQ Level 4 in a related discipline. Applicants for this course should be employed and supported by a Local Authority Environmental Health Department. In exceptional circumstances, applicants not in such employment but with significant experience in catering or food manufacture, holding a relevant QAA FHEQ Level 4/5 qualification may also be considered. Such applicants should read carefully the additional information section of this course sheet.

Overseas students need a minimum IELTs score of 6.5 to show competence in all four assessed areas.

Students successfully completing the full qualification will become CIEH-qualified Inspectors, allowing them to carry out inspection of Food Premises.

Students wishing to advance their career further may be able to use either the full qualification or the academic part of the qualification for credit exemption or advanced entry to degree courses which lead to Environmental Health Officer status.

Students may be able to use the qualification to enrol onto the food control course and complete the additional professional portfolio for the higher certificate food control.

£2,400*

*Exam fee included

Concession: NO
Government Subsidised: NO
Student Loan Available: NO

Please note: Fees are for 2023/24 entry and apply to students eligible for home fee status. For more information about financial support for students, please click here.

Download further details of the course here – Programme Specification

Chartered Institute of Environmental Health website - Technical qualifications

You will study four taught units at Nescot as the first part of this qualification. Once these have been successfully completed, you will then be required to pass a professional interview with examiners from the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) and to complete a logbook of relevant field practice. This normally takes at least one further year.


Additional information for applicants not working for a Local Authority Environmental Health Department

Please be aware that the course offered at Nescot is the academic component of the route to becoming an Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH)-qualified Inspector. You will need to register independently with the CIEH (cost approx £300) and once you have passed your four academic units at Nescot, we will send your name to them. After this, Nescot has no further involvement in your qualification.

The CIEH will invite you for an interview and you then have to complete a logbook of inspections. These inspections must be signed off by a qualified Environmental Health Officer, thus requiring you to either gain employment in an appropriate department or to independently arrange to accompany a qualified EHO on such inspections. On successful completion of the logbook you will become eligible to receive a certificate from the CIEH stating your qualification to carry out inspections.


Click here to go to our university-level information and support pages.


Disclaimer:

This Nescot College website describes the facilities and courses which the College intends to offer during the academic year commencing Autumn 2024. The web pages are prepared in advance of the academic year to which they relate and every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in these pages is helpful, fair and accurate at the time of printing. However, this information is subject to change over time.

Nescot will take reasonable steps to provide the courses and services as described, however, the College cannot guarantee the provision of any course or facility. Some circumstances, such as staff changes, resource limitations and other factors over which the College has no control, such as industrial action or a change in the law or the level of demand for a particular programme or module (please note that this list is non-exhaustive), may result in the College having to withdraw or change aspects of the programmes, modules and/or student services detailed on the website. This could include, but not necessarily be limited to, programme/module content, staffing, the location where the programme/module is taught or the manner of teaching delivery, and the facilities provided to deliver or support the programme. Where circumstances demand an unavoidable change or where it is necessary for the College to discontinue a programme of study, Nescot will take all reasonable steps to minimise the effect and all proposed changes will be notified to potential applicants who have registered an interest in the relevant programme at the earliest possible opportunity as well as being reflected on the College’s website. In addition, any changes between the website and the proposed course and services will be notified to applicants at the time of making an offer.

All prices quoted may be subject to change and you will be notified of any such change when any offer of a place is made to you by Nescot.

Should you become a student of the College, this notice shall be a term of any contract between you and Nescot. Any offer of a place at the College shall be subject to the student enrolment conditions and the College’s rules and regulations as amended from time to time. A copy of the Nescot’s current terms and conditions can be obtained in writing from Nescot, Quality Office, Reigate Road, Ewell, Epsom, Surrey, KT17 3DS

Last updated: 23/10/2023

Overview

  • Course Code:

    FC6262

  • Study type:

    Part Time

  • Award:

    Food Premises Inspection: Higher Certificate

  • Awarded by:

    CIEH

  • Course length:

    30 weeks (7 hours per week). 
    Currently runs on Thursdays at 9am

  • Start date:

    September 2024
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  • Course Code:

    FC6262

  • Study type:

    Part Time

  • Award:

    Food Premises Inspection: Higher Certificate

  • Awarded by:

    CIEH

  • Course length:

    30 weeks (7 hours per week). 
    Currently runs on Thursdays at 9am

  • Start date:

    September 2024

Applicants must have HND/BSc Honours QAA FHEQ Level 4 in a related discipline. Applicants for this course should be employed and supported by a Local Authority Environmental Health Department. In exceptional circumstances, applicants not in such employment but with significant experience in catering or food manufacture, holding a relevant QAA FHEQ Level 4/5 qualification may also be considered. Such applicants should read carefully the additional information section of this course sheet.

Overseas students need a minimum IELTs score of 6.5 to show competence in all four assessed areas.

Students successfully completing the full qualification will become CIEH-qualified Inspectors, allowing them to carry out inspection of Food Premises.

Students wishing to advance their career further may be able to use either the full qualification or the academic part of the qualification for credit exemption or advanced entry to degree courses which lead to Environmental Health Officer status.

Students may be able to use the qualification to enrol onto the food control course and complete the additional professional portfolio for the higher certificate food control.

£2,400*

*Exam fee included

Concession: NO
Government Subsidised: NO
Student Loan Available: NO

Please note: Fees are for 2023/24 entry and apply to students eligible for home fee status. For more information about financial support for students, please click here.

Download further details of the course here – Programme Specification

Chartered Institute of Environmental Health website - Technical qualifications

You will study four taught units at Nescot as the first part of this qualification. Once these have been successfully completed, you will then be required to pass a professional interview with examiners from the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) and to complete a logbook of relevant field practice. This normally takes at least one further year.


Additional information for applicants not working for a Local Authority Environmental Health Department

Please be aware that the course offered at Nescot is the academic component of the route to becoming an Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH)-qualified Inspector. You will need to register independently with the CIEH (cost approx £300) and once you have passed your four academic units at Nescot, we will send your name to them. After this, Nescot has no further involvement in your qualification.

The CIEH will invite you for an interview and you then have to complete a logbook of inspections. These inspections must be signed off by a qualified Environmental Health Officer, thus requiring you to either gain employment in an appropriate department or to independently arrange to accompany a qualified EHO on such inspections. On successful completion of the logbook you will become eligible to receive a certificate from the CIEH stating your qualification to carry out inspections.


Click here to go to our university-level information and support pages.


Disclaimer:

This Nescot College website describes the facilities and courses which the College intends to offer during the academic year commencing Autumn 2024. The web pages are prepared in advance of the academic year to which they relate and every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in these pages is helpful, fair and accurate at the time of printing. However, this information is subject to change over time.

Nescot will take reasonable steps to provide the courses and services as described, however, the College cannot guarantee the provision of any course or facility. Some circumstances, such as staff changes, resource limitations and other factors over which the College has no control, such as industrial action or a change in the law or the level of demand for a particular programme or module (please note that this list is non-exhaustive), may result in the College having to withdraw or change aspects of the programmes, modules and/or student services detailed on the website. This could include, but not necessarily be limited to, programme/module content, staffing, the location where the programme/module is taught or the manner of teaching delivery, and the facilities provided to deliver or support the programme. Where circumstances demand an unavoidable change or where it is necessary for the College to discontinue a programme of study, Nescot will take all reasonable steps to minimise the effect and all proposed changes will be notified to potential applicants who have registered an interest in the relevant programme at the earliest possible opportunity as well as being reflected on the College’s website. In addition, any changes between the website and the proposed course and services will be notified to applicants at the time of making an offer.

All prices quoted may be subject to change and you will be notified of any such change when any offer of a place is made to you by Nescot.

Should you become a student of the College, this notice shall be a term of any contract between you and Nescot. Any offer of a place at the College shall be subject to the student enrolment conditions and the College’s rules and regulations as amended from time to time. A copy of the Nescot’s current terms and conditions can be obtained in writing from Nescot, Quality Office, Reigate Road, Ewell, Epsom, Surrey, KT17 3DS

Last updated: 23/10/2023

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