Health and Safety Manager

Brighton and Hove City Council; Brighton; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

Brighton & Hove City Council is seeking a Health and Safety Manager to lead the City Operations directorate’s safety improvements across environmental services, parks, leisure facilities and events. The role manages health and safety practitioners and provides expert guidance.

Based at Hollingdean Depot, the post offers flexi hours and a permanent contract, with a starting salary in the range £45,529 to £48,738 per year.

Qualifications

• Experience overseeing health and safety practitioners and line management.
• Qualified health and safety professional with experience in large or complex organisations.

Responsibilities

• Provide independent professional advice on health and safety.
• Lead on larger or more complex Health, Safety, and Wellbeing matters.
• Manage junior health and safety practitioners and workloads.

Skills

Leadership

Health & safety

Line management

Auditing

Risk assessment

Stakeholder management

Education

NEBOSH Diploma

Job description

Health and Safety Manager

location_on Hollingdean Depot, Upper Hollingdean Road, Brighton, BN1 7GA 26/11/2026 Health and Safety Manager

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Job details

• Salary £45,529 - 48,738
• Contractual hours 37
• Basis Flexi Hours
• Job category/type Environmental & Conservation, Parks and Gardens, Waste Management
• Date posted 02/11/2026

Job description

Do you have experience of overseeing other health and safety practitioners and want the opportunity to develop your line management skills?

Are you an experienced qualified Health and Safety professional, who has worked in a large or complex organisation, dealing with vehicle, equipment, waste, chemical, and site operational hazards?

Are you excited about applying research skills and providing advice and guidance on diverse and significant hazards?

If so, we would like to hear from you

At Brighton & Hove City Council we are making great progress on improving our Health, Safety, and Wellbeing approaches, through our team of committed practitioners.

We are looking to recruit a motivated individual to our team, who wants to contribute to our continual improvement journey and provide direct advice and guidance to the council’s City Operations directorate, which includes environmental services, parks, leisure facilities and events.

Contract type: This role is permanent.

There is full information about the role below and associated job description but, if you would like an informal discussion, please contact Mark Flynn, Health Safety and Wellbeing Service Manager, at [e-mail].

About the role

As a Health and Safety Manager, you will be part of the City Operations directorate to influence change, protect communities and lead safety improvements across some of the city’s most essential services.

You will be working closely and inclusively with the Environmental Services department while being part of the council's wider multi-disciplinary Health, Safety, Wellbeing, Facilities and Buildings Service to provide expert advice and guidance. You will support the implementation of effective risk controls, carry out audits and assurance activities, develop policies and reports, and deliver training to colleagues across the organisation.

Your main base will be Hollingdean Depot, home to a wide range of operational services including:

• Refuse and recycling collections
• Street cleaning
• Graffiti removal
• Fly-tipping response
• Public toilets
• Environmental enforcement

You’ll also work with a diverse range of teams across the city, including Parks and Arboriculture services at Stanmer Park, Seafront operations, and colleagues within the corporate Health, Safety and Wellbeing team based at Hove Town Hall.

This is an opportunity to influence how health, safety and wellbeing is delivered across a large and diverse directorate and support the different service managers meet their legal requirement for general health and safety or building management matters as well as their specific statutory obligations, such as waste operator licensing, pesticide/herbicide use, or HGV driving.

Working with stakeholders at every level, from frontline teams to senior leaders, you’ll have the opportunity to drive positive change, influence decision-making, and help shape inclusive and equitable approaches to health, safety and wellbeing that reflect the diverse needs of our workforce and communities.

As a Health, Safety, and Wellbeing manager you will:

• give independent professional advice
• lead on larger or more complex Health, Safety, and Wellbeing matters
• manage junior health and safety practitioners and your own time and workloads to match the job demands.

Being part of a larger corporate service, you will have access to other health and safety professionals, as well as subject matter experts in fire safety, water safety, asbestos, premises management, site security, and contract management and so you can draw on their knowledge and experience, as well as working with them to help with your professional development and awareness.

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, female or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Why work for us?

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.