Health and Safety Manager

Stow Healthcare Group; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Stow Healthcare Group is seeking a Health and Safety Manager to provide visible leadership across our multi-site homes. You will identify risks, drive corrective actions, and ensure standards are consistently maintained.

Responsibilities include auditing, site inspections, action tracking, coaching, and verification to close gaps with documented evidence. Enhanced DBS and NEBOSH or equivalent are required, with a UK driving licence and travel between locations welcomed.

Qualifications

• Enhanced DBS check.
• Health and Safety qualification (NEBOSH or equivalent) is required.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel between locations.
• Flexibility to support operational priorities.

Responsibilities

• Provide visible, practical Health and Safety leadership across the homes, ensuring risks are identified, corrective actions are completed and required standards are consistently maintained.
• Drive Health and Safety assurance across the organisation through auditing, site inspections, action tracking, coaching and verification.
• Ensure actions are followed through, evidenced and verified before closure.

Skills

Health and Safety knowledge

Organisational skills

Follow-up skills

Communication

Influencing capability

Report writing

Analytical skills

Microsoft Office

Education

NEBOSH or equivalent

Job description

Health and Safety Manager

Reports to : Head of Property

To provide visible, practical Health and Safety leadership across the homes, ensuring risks are identified, corrective actions are completed and required standards are consistently maintained.

The Health & Safety Manager is responsible for driving Health and Safety assurance across the organisation through auditing, site inspections, action tracking, coaching and verification. The role extends beyond identifying issues, ensuring actions are followed through, evidenced and verified before closure.

Essential Experience

• Health and Safety management experience within a multi-site environment.
• Conducting audits, inspections and compliance reviews.
• Managing corrective actions through to completion.
• Influencing stakeholders and driving improvement.

Desirable

• Experience within care, healthcare, hospitality or property environments.
• Experience supporting regulatory inspections and quality assurance activities.

Skills & Knowledge

• Strong Health and Safety knowledge and practical application.
• Excellent organisational and follow-up skills.
• Strong communication and influencing capability.
• Ability to challenge constructively and hold others accountable.
• Effective report writing and analytical skills.
• Competent use of systems and Microsoft Office applications.

Personal Attributes

• Visible and approachable.
• Practical and solutions focused.
• Detail-oriented and organised.
• Resilient and persistent.
• Proactive and improvement focused.
• Strong personal accountability.

Additional Requirements

• Enhanced DBS check.
• Relevant Health and Safety qualification (NEBOSH or equivalent).
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel between locations.
• Flexibility to support operational priorities.

This Job Description indicates only the main duties and responsibilities of the post. It is not intended as an exhaustive list.

Stow Healthcare reserves the right to amend this Job Description from time to time, according to business needs.