Corporate Health and Safety Advisor

Ashfield District Council; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government council in the East Midlands is seeking a highly motivated health and safety practitioner to join their Corporate Health and Safety Team. This role involves providing operational support, conducting risk assessments, and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations. The position offers a supportive environment with a workload that is both interesting and diverse. Generous holiday entitlement and personal development opportunities are included.

Benefits

Generous holiday entitlement of up to 35 days per year

Local government pension

Personal development opportunities

Qualifications

• Must have excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to present and explain information to a wide range of audiences.

Responsibilities

• Undertake health and safety and fire safety risk assessments.
• Conduct health and safety inspections and auditing.
• Provide health and safety training.
• Carry out accident/incident investigations.
• Provide advice to ensure compliance with construction regulations.
• Perform residential building safety and security checks.

Skills

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Ability to present information to diverse audiences

Job description

The Corporate Health and Safety Team are seeking a highly motivated health and safety practitioner to join their small but busy team delivering corporate health and safety and emergency planning services to all departments across the Council.

You will have an interesting and diverse workload playing a key role providing operational support to colleagues ensuring the Council achieves and maintains compliance in all aspects of corporate health and safety, fire safety and emergency planning.

You will be a team player working in a supportive environment with a particular focus on health and safety compliance within our social housing and neighbourhood services departments whilst maintaining the provision of clear, consistent, quality health and safety (including fire safety) advice and guidance across all areas of the Council.

Duties include, but are not limited to

• Undertaking health and safety and fire safety risk assessments
• Health and safety inspections and auditing
• Health and safety training
• Accident/incident investigations
• Provision of advice and guidance to ensure compliance with construction regulations (CDM)
• Residential building safety and security checks (fire safety, asbestos, legionella control etc.)

Applicants must have excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to present and explain information to a wide range of audiences.

Ashfield District Council is a great place to work where we value our employees, offer benefits that include a very generous holiday entitlement of up to 35 days per year, provide personal development and a local government pension.

If you would like to apply, please submit a CV and covering letter demonstrating how you meet the essential criteria of the job description/personal specification.

14th December – Closing Date

WC 12th January – Interviews