🚀 ⭐ Join the Food Alert Academy – Winter 2026 ⭐ 🚀
Our next Food Alert Academy intake is now LIVE!
📍 Where we’re recruiting
We are recruiting specifically within the following areas:
- Croydon
- Southwest London (SW & TW postcodes only)
- Southampton
- Reading
- Guildford
- Thetford / Norwich
- St Albans / Hertfordshire
- Coventry
- Nottingham
Before you apply – please read this bit!
There are a couple of non-negotiables for this intake:
- You must hold a full UK driving licence and have access to a car to drive for the role. This is a field-based consultancy position involving regular travel between client sites.
- You must already live within the specific patch you are applying for.
- (And we do mean live there now – not “happy to travel to it”, “planning to relocate” or “it's only an hour away”. Our Consultants spend their working days travelling between customers within their patch. Starting and finishing outside it adds significant unnecessary travel and simply doesn't work for the role.)
- If you don't currently live within one of the locations/postcode areas above, we will not be progressing your application for this intake. Please don't apply for the nearest location hoping we can flex it – we can't.
- You must also already hold a Level 3 Food Safety qualification.
Face to face final interview dates:
London – Tuesday 6th October and Thursday 8th October
Are you…
- A hospitality professional looking for your next challenge?
- Already Level 3 Food Safety qualified and wondering where it could take you?
- Ready to turn your hospitality experience into a career in Food Safety?
- Interested in working with some of the best-known hospitality brands in the UK?
This could be your way in.
Who are we?
Food Alert is one of the country’s leading food safety and health & safety consultancies. Our expertise spans retail, leisure and education, but hospitality is where our passion really shines.
From BrewDog and The Ivy Collection to Dishoom, citizenM and Harbour Hotels, we partner with some of the most exciting names in the industry.
We’re also part of Citation Group, supporting more than 110,000 clients across our family of businesses.
Who are we looking for?
We know getting that first opportunity in Food Safety can be difficult when every advert seems to want years of consultancy or auditing experience.
That's exactly why the Food Alert Academy exists.
We're looking for people with strong hospitality experience and a Level 3 Food Safety qualification who have the potential to become brilliant Food Safety Consultants.
You don't need to arrive as the finished article. We'll train you to become one.
What you'll get with the Food Alert Academy
Earn while you learn
- From day one, you're employed, on our payroll and developing towards becoming a fully competent Food Safety Consultant.
Salary starts at £30,000, with a clear glide path to £35,000 and beyond as your competency and confidence grow.
Learn from the best in the business
- You'll shadow experienced Food Alert Consultants on real hospitality audits – from busy restaurant kitchens to high-end hotels – seeing first-hand how consultancy works in practice.
A clear path to Consultant
- We don't hand you a manual and hope for the best. You'll have a structured development plan, regular support and clear competency milestones as you progress towards managing your own client patch.
Training and qualifications paid for
- We'll invest in the technical training and qualifications you need to develop your Food Safety career.
What's in it for you?
- Flexible working across home and client sites
- 25 days' holiday + bank holidays + 3 additional days at Christmas
- Enhanced sick pay, healthcare cash plan and life insurance
- Referral bonuses and wider Citation Group benefits
- Fully funded development and qualifications
- The opportunity to work with some of the biggest names in hospitality
- A genuine career path into professional Food Safety consultancy