Health and Safety Advisor

NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Flexible working patterns

28–30 days annual leave

Job summary

Nottingham Trent University is hiring a Health and Safety Advisor to join the central Health, Safety & Wellbeing Team. The role covers diverse settings including agriculture, technical workshops, and built environment studios, promoting a positive safety culture and ensuring compliance with health and safety legislation.

The role involves conducting risk assessments, supporting the Safety Management System, and delivering training and toolbox talks.

Qualifications

• Proactive health and safety professional able to work across multiple environments.
• Strong ability to influence safety culture and drive compliant practices.
• Experience delivering health and safety training and inductions.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert health and safety advice across agricultural, technical, and built environment settings.
• Support development and implementation of NTU's Health & Safety Management System.
• Conduct risk assessments, inspections, and audits in farms, workshops, labs, and studios.
• Collaborate with farm managers, technicians, academics, and stakeholders to maintain safe systems of work.
• Advise on legislation and best practices (PUWER, LOLER, COSHH, CDM, workplace transport, machinery safety).
• Assist investigations, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions.
• Deliver health and safety training, inductions, and toolbox talks.
• Assist with contractor management, emergency preparedness, and business continuity planning.
• Promote continuous improvement and a positive safety culture across the university.

Job description

Build a Rewarding Career. Doing things differently.

Health and Safety Advisor

Grade H(£39,984 - £44,977 p.a. pro rata)

Full time role

All NTU Campuses

Should sufficient applications be received, we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date. Early application is therefore advised.

Nottingham Trent University is seeking a proactive, knowledgeable, and highly motivated Health and Safety Advisor to join our central Health, Safety & Wellbeing Team. This is an exciting opportunity to support a diverse range of specialist environments, including agricultural operations, technical workshops, and architecture, design and built environment studios.

Working closely with academic and professional service colleagues, you will play a key role in promoting a positive safety culture, ensuring compliance with health and safety legislation, and helping to create safe and healthy environments for our staff, students, and visitors

What You'll Be Doing

• Provide expert health and safety advice and guidance across agricultural, technical, and built environment settings.
• Support the development and implementation of NTU's Health & Safety Management System.
• Conduct risk assessments, workplace inspections, and audits across farms, workshops, laboratories, and studio environments.
• Work collaboratively with farm managers, technical teams, academics, and other stakeholders to develop and maintain safe systems of work.
• Provide specialist advice on legislation and best practice, including PUWER, LOLER, COSHH, CDM, workplace transport, machinery safety, and related regulations.
• Support incident investigations, identify root causes, and develop effective corrective and improvement actions.
• Deliver health and safety training, inductions, and toolbox talks.
• Assist with contractor management, emergency preparedness, and business continuity planning.
• Champion continuous improvement and promote a positive, proactive safety culture across the University

What We're Looking For

You will be a confident and approachable health and safety professional with the ability to build strong working relationships and influence positive outcomes across a wide range of operational environments. Please take a look at the job description below for further details.

Interview dates; w/c 26th October 2026.

About Us

Nottingham Trent University is a successful and ambitious university that is recognised for its innovation and inclusivity and being bold enough to do things differently. This is an exciting time to join the HR team focused on 'Empowering People' a key theme in delivering the strategic plan 'University, reimagined'.

Our HR team is responsible for our NTU colleagues employment needs. We cover a wide range of HR and Organisational Development services, including Health, Safety and Wellbeing, Resourcing and Reward and Recognition.

Distinctive and disruptive, we empower people to do the right thing. We are bold in exploring unfamiliar paths and pursuing novel solutions. If you have a passion for making a real difference, joining us in HR at NTU could be the perfect role for you.

For any informal queries about the role or the HR team, please contact Richard Worrall (Health and Safety Manager) at [e-mail]

Join Us

• Hybrid working - We support flexible ways of working through a combination of campus-based and home working where applicable. For full-time roles, this includes a minimum of 60% on-campus commitment. We trust colleagues to work with their teams to shape working patterns that enable them to deliver the best possible outcomes for their stakeholders.
• Flexibility - We welcome and support a range of working patterns and approaches, helping colleagues balance their work and personal commitments while meeting the needs of the role.
• 28 - 30 days annual leave, plus statutory bank holidays and 5 university closure days pro rata.
• Salary Sacrifice Retirement Savings Plan with life assurance and income protection. Available to colleagues who choose to opt out of the contractual pension scheme. Minimum colleague contributions of 0% matched with minimum NTU contributions of 8%.
• Range of health and wellbeing services, including a Health Cash Plan, voluntary benefits, discounts, and savings for all colleagues.
• Access to a wealth of formal and informal professional development opportunities to develop your skills and advance your career.
• We are committed to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion across all areas of our work. We actively promote a culture of respect and belonging and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.
• And a whole lot more

Come and be part of our success.

Safe and Inclusive

At NTU, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our students and colleagues. By championing positive wellbeing, we promote an environment where all can thrive and reach their full potential. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring and we encourage people from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to apply to join our team.

Please note that unfortunately, this role has been assessed as ineligible for sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration points-based immigration system however, we recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position. For more information visit the Government Skilled Worker visa support page. However, applications are welcome from candidates who do not currently have the right to work in the UK, but who would be eligible to obtain a valid visa via another route. Please consult the Home Office website for further information.

Please note that this role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and successful applicants will be asked to declare any unspent criminal convictions.