Health and Safety Adviser

Abingdon and Witney College; Abingdon; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 36,000; Part time

Job summary

Abingdon and Witney College seeks a passionate Health and Safety Adviser to enhance staff wellbeing. This pivotal role involves advising on health and safety practices, ensuring compliance with legislation, and promoting wellbeing initiatives. Join a supportive environment where you can make a significant impact.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Holiday scheme

Flexible working options

Corporate gym membership

Cycle/tech scheme

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in health and safety advisory roles.
• Strong knowledge of health and safety legislation.
• Passion for staff wellbeing and implementing initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Advise and support staff on health and safety.
• Monitor compliance with internal policies.
• Deliver training and assist with risk assessments.

Skills

Communication

Problem-Solving

Health and Safety Knowledge

Education

Experience in a similar advisory role

Knowledge of UK health and safety legislation

Job description

We hope that one of the buttons below will help you.

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification / criteria. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

If this role is of interest to you, please apply below or you can send your cv to [emailprotected] as an expression of interest and apply on our website otherwise we won't be able to accept your application. (external candidates only)

£29,944 - £35,436 per annum, pro rata, dependant on experience and level of qualifications

22.5 hours per week

52 OR Term time only options available

Abingdon & Witney Campus

Permanent

Are you passionate about creating a safe, healthy, and supportive working environment? Do you have a strong understanding of health and safety legislation and a proactive approach to staff wellbeing? Join us at Abingdon and Witney College, where you'll play a pivotal role in managing and developing a positive culture of staff safety across our college community.

About the Role:
We're seeking a dynamic Health and Safety Adviser to support the development, implementation, and administration, of our staff's wellbeing and health & safety practices. You'll work across departments, advising managers and staff, ensuring compliance with internal procedures, legislation, and promoting initiatives that enhance staff wellbeing, resilience, and mental health.

Key Responsibilities:

• Advise and support all aspects of staff health, safety, and wellbeing, ensuring a proactive and preventative approach.

• Monitor, review, and co-ordinate day to day management of policies and procedures to ensure internal, legal compliance, and best practice.

• Deliver training, guidance, and assist staff in completing risk assessments tailored to their role and/or personal circumstances.

• Support and lead wellbeing campaigns, including mental health awareness, stress management, and healthy workplace initiatives.

• As part of the OHS team, work collaboratively with People Services, Estates, and Senior Leaders to embed wellbeing into college life.

• Produce detailed and accurate termly reports focusing on safety performance and KPIs associated with the role.

About You:

• Experience in a similar advisory role within education or a comparable sector.

• Strong knowledge of UK health and safety legislation and best practices.

• Passion for staff wellbeing with experience implementing and administrating practical initiatives.

• Excellent communication, influencing, and problem-solving skills.

This role offers the option of 52 weeks per annum or Term Time Only (38 weeks per annum, paid for 43.13 weeks per annum) providing flexibility to suit the right candidate.

In return, Abingdon & Witney College offer excellent benefits to our employees including generous pension and holiday schemes (with potential Christmas closure days), continued professional development, flexible working options, corporate gym membership, cycle/tech scheme and much more.

Closing date: 29th June 2025 (Midnight)

*Abingdon and Witney College reserve the right to close all applications before posted closing date

AWC values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to safeguarding and expect all our employees and volunteers to share this commitment. We are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and all appointments are subject to satisfactory clearances including enhanced DBS checks.

Abingdon and Witney College are committed to safer recruitment practices. In addition to our pre-employment checks, we will conduct an online search. This includes checking Google main results feed as well as the 'News' and 'Images' tab. We will be checking for any publicly available information that suggests the applicant may not be suitable to work with children or young/vulnerable people or content that could potentially damage Abingdon and Witney College's reputation. This may include inappropriate posts, comments or images displaying evidence of offensive or inappropriate behaviour, jokes or language, discriminatory comments, inappropriate photos, drug or alcohol misuse.

We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date of the adverts should we receive a sufficient level of interest!

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