Head of Health, Safety & Wellbeing

The Clancy Group; Dartford; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction business in Dartford is seeking an experienced Head of Health, Safety & Wellbeing to drive the health, safety, and wellbeing strategy across its operations. Candidates should have extensive leadership experience, ideally within the utilities or construction industry, strong management skills, and hold a NEBOSH Level 6 Diploma in Health and Safety. This position involves travel across the South East for client engagements.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Pension plan

Healthcare

Employee benefits programme

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Extensive proven experience in a senior health and safety leadership role.
• Strong management skills with the ability to lead teams and manage conflict.
• Practical understanding of diversity, equality, and inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and implementation of health, safety, and wellbeing policies.
• Provide oversight to the health, safety, and wellbeing team.
• Monitor and report on health and safety performance.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Incident investigation

Data analysis

Team leadership

Communication skills

Education

NEBOSH Level 6 Diploma in Health and Safety

Job description

Overview

Head of Health, Safety & Wellbeing — £70000 - £85000 + Car/Allowance, Dartford

We care. That's why we need people like you, who care about their colleagues, customers, our business, the environment and the community.

The role...

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Head of Health, Safety and Wellbeing to join our team. This leadership role will work closely with our Director shaping and then delivering our health, safety and wellbeing strategy across our operations in the South.

You'll be instrumental in driving a proactive safety culture, ensuring compliance with legislation, improving the health of our employees and leading a team of professionals to embed best practice across the business.

The role...

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of health, safety and wellbeing policies and procedures, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
• Provide senior leadership and oversight to the health, safety and wellbeing team, supporting their development and performance.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement and accountability in health, safety and wellbeing across all operational areas.
• Oversee escalated incident investigations, ensuring root cause analysis is conducted in a fair and just manner, and that corrective actions are implemented.
• Engage with senior stakeholders to influence and embed health and safety priorities across the business.
• Monitor and report on health and safety performance, using data and insights to inform decision-making and drive improvements.
• Support organisational change initiatives, ensuring health, safety and wellbeing considerations are fully integrated.
• Promote diversity, equality and inclusion within health, safety and wellbeing practices and across the wider team.

Qualifications

• Extensive proven experience in a senior health and safety leadership role, ideally within the utilities or construction industry.
• NEBOSH Level 6 Diploma in Health and Safety (or equivalent).
• Strong management skills, with the ability to lead teams, coach and support others, and manage conflict positively.
• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Proven ability in incident investigation and report writing, with a fair and just approach to root cause analysis.
• Practical understanding of diversity, equality and inclusion.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present confidently to varied audiences.
• Analytical mindset with experience in using data to solve problems and inform strategic decisions.
• High levels of empathy and professional integrity.
• A full and valid UK driving license is essential

Location & Travel

As the role covers the South East and South, your location can be relatively flexible, as long as you're happy to be travelling for much of your week. To give you a good idea of where you will be spending your time, our clients include but are not limited to Southern Water, South East Water and South West Water.

What Next

Interested? Then apply today!

Our Company

Every day we work smarter, greener and use our imaginations.

Our purpose at Clancy is simple - we make life better for everyone's growing families. We play a vital role in providing fresh drinking water and power to millions of homes and businesses and so much more.

We are one of the biggest family owned construction businesses in the UK and we care about our people, our clients and the environment.

Benefits

In addition to helping you reach your career goals, a competitive salary, pension, healthcare and holiday allowance starting at 24-26 days per annum, we also offer perks including Clancy Xtras, our employee benefits programme with discounts for numerous well-known retailers such as Tesco, Sainsbury's, Currys PC World and Vue Cinemas, cycle to work scheme as well as an Employee Assistance Programme.

Clancy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made for you to attend an interview, please do let us know and we will be happy to accommodate.

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and Disability Confident Committed.