Health and Safety Advisor

Affinity Water; Hatfield; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car

Annual bonus scheme

Learning and development opportunities

Entry into annual bonus scheme

Family benefits and enhanced leave

Wellbeing support

Pension scheme

Affinity days for volunteering

Life Assurance

Job summary

Affinity Water is seeking a hands-on Health & Safety Advisor to promote safe, sustainable, and positive working practices across our Hatfield office and regional sites. The role covers office, facilities, and site visits with travel to Folkestone roughly monthly, supporting our Zero Harm agenda.

You'll partner with Customer Experience, frontline, and production teams to drive safe working practices, coach stakeholders, and investigate significant incidents while developing risk assessments and

Qualifications

• Experience providing Health & Safety advice in an office environment, including DSE, wellbeing, stress and mental health.
• Experience carrying out incident investigations, risk assessments and workplace inspections, with the ability to turn findings into practical learning and improvements.
• Proven hands‑on experience working on live operational and/or construction sites
• Strong knowledge of health and safety legislation and best practice
• Good technical understanding of construction, utilities, or engineering environments
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing, and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and manage a site-based workload
• NEBOSH General Certificate
• Technical Membership of IOSH

Responsibilities

• Work closely with front-line teams to identify hazards and challenge unsafe behaviours
• Work with operational teams to develop and improve safe ways of working, embedding safety at all stages of work
• Build strong rapport with teams on site and act as a trusted advisor, influencing positive safety culture
• Provide coaching and guidance to stakeholders on health and safety matters
• Investigate significant incidents, identify root causes, and recommend corrective actions
• Lead incident reviews with key stakeholders
• Support the development and review of risk assessments, method statements, and permits
• Deliver training, awareness briefings, and health & safety initiatives
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of H&S policies, procedures, and practices

Skills

Health & Safety advisory

Office environment

Incident investigations

Live operational sites

Legislation knowledge

Construction/engineering environments

Interpersonal communication

Independent working

NEBOSH General Certificate

IOSH membership

Education

NEBOSH Diploma (Desirable)

Job description

We’re looking for a hands-on Health & Safety Advisor to promote safe, sustainable and positive working practices across our office in Hatfield and operational environments.

Working closely with Customer Experience, front‑line and production teams, you’ll support our Zero Harm ambition through practical advice, workplace and site visits, incident investigations, safety communications and learning and also support our Safety Champion groups and promote wellbeing, including mental health and stress awareness.

This is a varied role, covering everything from office‑based health and safety, facilities and display screen equipment to supporting operational teams and visiting sites across our regions. You’ll be mostly based in Hatfield, with travel across Affinity Water’s regions and to Folkestone approximately once a month, depending on business needs.

What You’ll Do

• Work closely with front‑line teams to identify hazards and challenge unsafe behaviours

• Work with operational teams to develop and improve safe ways of working, embedding safety at all stages of work

• Build strong rapport with teams on site and act as a trusted advisor, influencing positive safety culture

• Provide coaching and guidance to stakeholders on health and safety matters

• Investigate significant incidents, identify root causes, and recommend corrective actions

• Lead incident reviews with key stakeholders

• Support the development and review of risk assessments, method statements, and permits

• Deliver training, awareness briefings, and health & safety initiatives

• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of H&S policies, procedures, and practices

What We’re Looking For

Essential:

• Experience providing Health & Safety advice within an office environment, including DSE, workplace wellbeing, stress and mental health.

• Experience carrying out incident investigations, risk assessments and workplace inspections, with the ability to turn findings into practical learning and improvements.

• Proven, hands‑on experience working on live operational and/or construction sites

• Strong knowledge of health and safety legislation and best practice

• Good technical understanding of construction, utilities, or engineering environments

• Excellent interpersonal, influencing, and communication skills

• Ability to work independently and manage a site‑based workload

• NEBOSH General Certificate

• Technical Membership of IOSH

Desirable:

• NEBOSH Diploma (or working towards)

• Awareness of COMAH requirements

• Knowledge of COSHH regulations and safe substance management practice

Benefits:

• Salary from £42,000 dependant on skills and experience

• Company car

• Learning and development opportunities, including mentoring and a range of formal courses and open learning resources.

• Entry into the company annual bonus scheme.

• Annual leave from 26-30 rising with length of service, and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days.

• A ‘Celebration Day’ in addition to public holidays that people can use to celebrate a religious festival or other occasion that is important to them.

• A generous 'double match pension scheme' that doubles the contributions you make (company contribution capped at 12%)

• We offer a range of family benefits including enhanced Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental Leave, Fertility Support Leave and up to 5 full or 10 half days of paid Carers Leave.

• Menopause policy and Reasonable Adjustment policy to help everyone perform at their best.

• Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental health.

• Discounts at a Range of Retail Outlets through our Tap4Perks scheme

• Discounts on Dental and Medical Insurance through our Tap4Perks scheme through salary sacrifice

• Up to 4 Affinity days a year to volunteer in the community.

• Life Assurance.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to offering interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria and opt in on the application form. Ask the Talent Acquisition lead for the full job description to see all the criteria. If we have a very high volume of applicants and we’re not able to offer interviews to all, we’ll take a fair and proportionate number of disabled candidates through.

Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.

You can find out what it’s like to work at Affinity Water through our career site https://www.affinitywatercareers.co.uk/ where our colleagues share their career development stories and you can get a feel for our company culture.