Chartered Practitioner programme

The Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner Programme is a two-year, practice-based route to Chartered Status and is built on our Professional Standards.

Chartered Environmental Health Practitioners (EHPs) can use the post-nominals 'CEnvH' and a digital credential to formally demonstrate that they have met the required standards.

Eligibility criteria

Applicants must:

• Be a member of CIEH at either the Member (MCIEH) or Fellowship (FCEIH) grade
• Hold a CIEH accredited qualification in environmental health at a minimum of level 6
• Be practising in an environmental health setting
• Have a statement of employer support

Benefits

The programme is employer-led and enables:

• Candidates to apply learning in the workplace
• Employers to collaborate in learning delivery and develop their workforce
• Co-development of a workplace project to ensure a meaningful and purposeful outcome for both practitioner and employer

Highly personalised

• Practitioner choice ensures a meaningful experience
• Offers a broad range of opportunities across all technical, functional and professional competencies
• Ensures relevance within different employment settings and roles and for those with differing starting points, interests and development needs.

Food enforcement in England, Wales and Northern Ireland

The Chartered EHP Programme is a flexible professional development pathway that is applicable internationally and in all employment contexts. For this reason, it has been not been directly mapped to the Food Standards Agency's competency framework. Candidates and employers who are interested in food enforcement work in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are asked to consider our Environmental Health Practitioner pathway instead.

Cost

A one-off application fee of £1,229.

This includes (for both years) application and induction fees, on-programme monitoring and administration, supporting and guidance materials, assessment and ratification, and certification of Chartered Status.

How to apply

Please read the full programme specification before applying.

• Application form
• Extenuating Circumstances Policy
• Extenuating Circumstances Application
• FAQs
• Guidance on Programme Structure
• Mentor Guide
• Programme Specification
• Refund Policy
• Examination Regulations 2022

Chartered Status is currently under review and we welcome your thoughts. You might also like to consider Qualifying as an Environmental Health Practitioner as an alternative way to enhance your career.

Contribute to the Chartered Status review.