Health And Safety Advisor

Aster Group UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Wellbeing programme

Career development

Defined Contribution Pension

Volunteering hours

Discounts at cinemas, gyms, holidays

Enhanced leave

Employee recognition

Job summary

Aster Group is seeking an experienced Health and Safety Advisor to support our Property Services teams. You will embed best practice, refresh risk assessments, investigate incidents, and provide competent advice to protect colleagues.

The role requires travel within operating regions and collaboration with trade operations to drive safety improvements. You should have NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent with strong communication and reporting skills, and a proactive, collaborative approach

Qualifications

• Minimum NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent.
• Experience applying health and safety in a medium/large organisation.
• Housing sector background desirable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide health and safety guidance to embed best practice across teams and sites.
• Refresh risk assessments and investigate significant incidents.
• Produce reports and recommendations to support safe decisions.
• Support monitoring and audits across locations as needed.

Skills

Hazard identification

Risk management

Site audits

Reports writing

Induction delivery

Time management

Procedures development

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Education

NEBOSH General Certificate

Job description

Location: Flexible - able to travel within our operating regions

Hours: 37 hours per week

The Vacancy

Are you an experienced Health and Safety Advisor with a housing or maintenance background? Why not consider joining our established Health and Safety Team to support the work we do with our Property Services colleagues.

With a passion for health and safety you will use your knowledge and experience to assist colleagues to embed best practice ensuring relevant legislation, standards, and codes of practice are applied to specific working environments and activities.

Working closely with our trade operational colleagues and leaders, you'll get insight into the maintenance service provided to our customers and will seek to support that business area as a subject matter expert. Your work will include assisting refreshing risk assessments, investigating significant incidents, providing competent advice, reviewing induction and specific onboarding and carrying out a programme of monitoring to protect colleagues from potential health and safety risks. You'll be confident in creating reports and providing recommendations to support the best course of action.

You’ll work to a prioritised action plan, ensuring momentum is maintained, and key projects progressed through to completion.

About you

You should have demonstrable experience of applying health and safety practices within a medium to large sized organisation and hold a minimum of NEBOSH General Certificate qualification or equivalent. A background in housing is desirable but not essential.

You will also have:

• Significant experience providing advice on hazard identification and risk management
• A proven track record of conducting good quality site audits and written reports
• Knowledge and competence of induction delivery and monitoring with good attention to detail
• The ability to manage diary commitments and prioritise your own workload
• Experience in reviewing and developing health and safety procedures
• Strong communication skills and a proven ability to work collaboratively with key stakeholders

It is a varied role and well-suited to you if you are a positive, resilient, lateral thinker that can work on your own initiative and manage your time effectively. You will work both independently and as part of a team, have excellent communication and problem-solving skills, and be able to provide competent advice.

Within the role you will be required to visit our portfolio of locations to meet with colleagues and carry out monitoring, so travel is required. You will hold a full UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work purposes.

The role is hybrid; therefore you can choose to work primarily from home, with office hubs being available in various locations with bookable desks for your use. Our main operating region covers Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and London.

What’s in it for me

We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:

• Flexible working – whilst some roles need to be carried out in a specific place at a specific time, where possible we encourage our colleagues to work to their own schedule at a location that suits them, their team and our business’ needs
• A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
• We invest in colleagues’ careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
• Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
• Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
• Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
• Enhanced leave
• We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives

Successful applicants will be required to complete a Basic DBS check.

We create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and believe that creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work is the right thing to do.

All candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it’s subsidiary brands.