Head of Health and Safety

Sellick Partnership; Wrexham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Sellick Partnership is recruiting an interim Head of Health and Safety for a public sector organisation in the United Kingdom. The role offers strategic leadership and operational oversight of health and safety, environmental management and sustainability for an initial 3-4 months, with potential extension.

You will oversee risk assessments, incident investigations and resilience planning, while embedding a strong safety culture across all activities and ensuring compliance with statutory

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading health and safety strategy.
• Stakeholder engagement across partners and agencies.
• Strong risk management and incident investigation skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and operational oversight of health and safety, environmental management and sustainability.
• Develop, implement and review management systems, policies and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety legislation, environmental regs and statutory obligations.
• Oversee hazard identification and risk assessments; ensure regular reviews.
• Lead incident investigations and reporting; implement lessons learned.
• Support resilience through emergency preparedness and business continuity planning.
• Champion environmental sustainability across operations.
• Develop staff through guidance, training and development, fostering a culture of safety.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder comms

Project management

Risk management

Education

NEBOSH certification

IOSH Chartered

Job description

Duration - Interim for 3-4 months initially however this will be reviewed with the potential to extend further

Monday - Friday - 37.5 hours a week

Sellick Partnership are supporting a public sector organisation with the recruitment of a Head of Health and Safety to provide operational leadership and strategic oversight on Health and Safety, environmental and sustainability matters, ensuring the effective management of risk, compliance with statutory obligations, incident management, resilience planning and the delivery of a positive safety and sustainability culture across all activities.

Key responsibilities for the Head of Health and Safety

• Provide strategic leadership and operational oversight of health and safety, environmental management and sustainability.
• Ensure appropriate management systems, policies and procedures are developed, implemented, maintained and regularly reviewed.
• Ensure compliance with relevant health and safety legislation, environmental regulations and statutory obligations.
• Oversee the identification and management of significant hazards, ensuring appropriate risk assessments are completed and reviewed.
• Ensure workplace safety inspections are undertaken at least annually, with appropriate action taken to address identified risks and areas for improvement.
• Lead the effective management, investigation and reporting of incidents, ensuring lessons learned are identified and implemented.
• Support organisational resilience through effective emergency preparedness, business continuity and resilience planning.
• Champion environmental responsibility and sustainability, embedding good practice across organisational operations.

• Leadership and people management

  The postholder will be responsible for ensuring that employees within their area of responsibility receive appropriate guidance, training and development to carry out their duties safely and effectively.

  They will promote a culture of continuous learning, accountability and professional development, supporting colleagues to achieve their objectives while maintaining high standards of performance, service delivery and wellbeing.

Key areas of Knowledge & Experience

• Demonstrable experience of successful partnership and multi-agency working
• Experience of applying risk management in setting strategy and in identifying and managing principal risks to achievement of objectives
• Experience of successful project management and delivering services to set standards
• Succesful track record of communicating with stakeholders and partners

Qualifications

• NEBOSH certification or willingness to work towards.
• Chartered member of IOSH

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