Health and Safety Coordinator

Activate Learning; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution in the UK is seeking a Health and Safety Coordinator to support a safe and compliant environment for students and staff. Responsibilities include managing audit schedules, supporting internal communications, and ensuring all necessary documentation is prepared. The role demands excellent interpersonal and ICT skills. The ideal candidate should have relevant health and safety qualifications. This position offers comprehensive benefits, including competitive salaries and flexible working options.

Benefits

Comprehensive wellbeing resources

Health Cash Plan

Continuous professional development

Flexible working options

Generous annual leave

Free parking and onsite facilities

Qualifications

• Experience or a qualification related to health and safety is highly desirable.
• Ability to achieve performance targets against deadlines.
• Comfortable with producing reports and correspondence.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a safe, compliant, and positive environment for students and staff.
• Manage the audit schedule and documentation.
• Support internal communications and prepare associated paperwork.

Skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

ICT skills

Report production

Document handling

Attention to detail

Education

Health and safety qualification

Job description

Role Overview

The Health and Safety Coordinator plays a key supporting role within the Health and Safety team, providing coordination and support to help with maintaining a safe, compliant, and positive environment for students, staff, and visitors. This role focuses on supporting Health and Safety across the organisation, taking full ownership of a range of responsibilities which will include managing the audit schedule, documentation, and delivery, as well as supporting internal communication and team or investigatory meetings, ensuring all associated paperwork is prepared and issued. Further to this you'll manage the shared mailbox, produce reports and keep training up to date and tracked. The role provides an excellent opportunity to develop a career in health and safety within a large and diverse organisation. The Health and Safety Coordinator will contribute to continuous improvement, support the achievement of departmental performance targets, and help embed a strong health and safety culture across the Group.

You should have excellent interpersonal and ICT skills, and be comfortable producing reports and correspondence and handling documents, particularly noticing inconsistencies or errors. You should be used to achieving performance targets against deadlines. Experience or a qualification related to health and safety would be highly desirable.

Benefits

• Wellbeing & Resources Groups: Comprehensive range of resources, guides and tools to support staff wellbeing
• Company benefits: Including free eye tests and will writing, plus access to a Health Cash Plan covering optical, dental, health screening, and therapy treatments for you and your dependents.
• Learning and Development: continuous opportunities for teachers' professional growth and skill enhancement through our in-house L&D team.
• Teaching Support: Tailored Three-day induction program, and development programs for teaching staff.
• Pension Schemes: Teacher pension scheme for AL teaching staff
• Generous Annual Leave: Up to 6 weeks paid leave
• Flexible Working: Options include hybrid and remote, term time only, and flexible working patterns.
• Competitive salaries: Annual incremental progression and a twelve point pay scale for teachers.
• On-Site Facilities: Free parking at all campuses, refectories, hair and beauty salons & gym access.

For a comprehensive list of all of our benefits & wellbeing offering, please visit our work-with-us/wellbeing. Applicants should apply at the earliest opportunity; closed vacancies will prevent application form submission. Applications are reviewed and shortlisted on a rolling basis, we reserve the right to interview, appoint and close adverts.

Note: Some positions may require a legally mandated health surveillance check for exposure to hazardous conditions. Activate Learning is committed to safeguarding and expects all our staff to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undergo a DBS check at the appropriate level. Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK, we do not sponsor work permits. Work permits from other organisations are unacceptable as proof of right to work in the UK.