Group Health & Safety Leader – Hotels & Risk Management

Andrew Brownsword Hotels; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary appropriate to senior role

Discretionary bonus up to 20%

Healthcare and pension contributions

Central Bath head office with travel

Job summary

The Brownsword Group is seeking a Group Head of Health & Safety to establish and oversee the portfolio-wide safety framework across its hotels. Reporting to the CEO, you will provide leadership, assurance and practical controls to translate legal and Group requirements into effective operating practices.

The role combines strategic governance with regular hotel visits, coaching and incident support, ensuring safety remains an integral part of exceptional hospitality.

Responsibilities

• Own and continually improve the Group health and safety, food safety and risk-management framework, ensuring policies, standards and procedures are legally compliant, practical and appropriate for hotel operations.
• Maintain a risk-based programme of hotel visits, inspections and audits, focusing attention where risk, performance or change requires it most.
• Own the Group food-safety and allergen-management framework, working closely with Executive Chefs, General Managers and F&B leaders to ensure robust and practical controls.
• Ensure serious incidents, near misses and significant safety concerns are reported promptly, investigated proportionately and used to prevent recurrence.
• Lead or support investigations into serious incidents, identifying root causes rather than simply immediate causes and ensuring lessons are shared across the Group.
• Own the effective Group use of Riskproof as the central compliance platform, ensuring requirements, records, actions and reporting remain accurate, current and useful.
• Build a positive safety culture in which leaders understand that good safety management is part of running a good hotel, not a separate compliance activity.
• Coach General Managers, Heads of Department and central leaders to understand their responsibilities, assess risk sensibly and make sound operational decisions.
• Manage external health and safety, food-safety and specialist suppliers, ensuring their work is appropriately scoped, commercially sensible and delivers measurable value.

Job description

The Brownsword Group is seeking a Group Head of Health & Safety to establish and oversee the portfolio-wide safety framework across its hotels. Reporting to the CEO, you will provide leadership, assurance and practical controls to translate legal and Group requirements into effective operating practices.

The role combines strategic governance with regular hotel visits, coaching and incident support, ensuring safety remains an integral part of exceptional hospitality.