Health and Safety Manager

The Rivers Trust; London; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 43,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading environmental charity seeks a part-time Health and Safety Manager to oversee health and safety protocols around water and in outdoor settings. This role involves developing a Health & Safety Management Plan, ensuring compliance, and conducting routine training sessions. The position offers a flexible hybrid working environment with a focus on community engagement and environmental stewardship.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing health and safety requirements.
• Familiarity with Construction Design Management (CDM).
• Ability to conduct training sessions related to health and safety.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage health and safety requirements around water.
• Deliver the new Health & Safety Management Plan.
• Compile incident reports and manage incident reporting systems.

Skills

Health and Safety Management

Risk Assessment

Project Management

Education

NEBOSH or IOSH qualification

Job description

Thames21 is a dynamic, rapidly developing and highly successful environmental charity which is committed to transforming the River Thames and its tributaries, working hand in hand with communities. Today, this work has never been more important. The climate emergency will affect all of us and tackling its impact will require much greater focus on our river networks. Thames21 plans to ramp up our work in response.

Thames21 has strong finances, a skilled, motivated and growing staff team and an ambitious new Five-Year Plan to deliver. The charity will deliver increasingly resilient and healthy rivers in landscapes that are closer to their natural state with an abundance of fish and wildlife; empowering and working with people to bring multiple benefits to the natural environment, to individuals and to our communities.

The role

We are looking for an experienced part-time NEBOSH or IOSH qualified Health and Safety Manager, who will lead manage and develop our health and safety requirements and responsibilities around working outside and around water.

We have a health and safety management plan which following on from our Health and Safety audit, has outlined the framework for this role and what is needed to be implemented over the next 12 months.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Work with both Head of HR and Operations Manager on certain aspects of office Health & Safety with as and where necessary
• Project manage and deliver all requirements of the new created H&S Management Plan
• Work with managers on Construction Design Management (CDM) health and safety
• Track and ensure that risk assessments are being completed within teams for events and elsewhere where required in Thames21
• Work with HR and line managers to ensure that Standard Operating Procedures (SOPS) are created, updated and reviewed periodically
• Deliver the H&S induction session with new joiners when and where applicable
• Work with the Operations Manager to ensure vehicle checks are conducted in accordance with the vehicles policy, and that all drivers are trained in the use of the inspection checklists and all aspects of vehicle inspection.
• Compile a quarterly incident report to the Head of HR
• Manage the incident reporting system, escalating serious incidents (including risks) to senior management
• Manage a programme of safety audits to reporting these to the management team
• Manage and run the quarterly H&S group meetings and keep track of progress of actions that have been assigned
• Conduct training sessions on other related health and safety as and when required
• Other duties commensurate with the role

To apply for this role, please send an updated CV along with a covering letter of no more than two sides, stating why you feel you have the necessary skills, attributes and experience for this position and please email your CV and covering letter to [e-mail].

Deadline for completed applications: 5pm Friday 27th June 2025

Interviews will be held on: Week commencing 7th July 2025 (subject to change)

We appreciate the time you will have taken to apply to this role, and we do appreciate that it is disconcerting when you don’t hear back from a role you have applied for. However, due to the high number of applications we expect to receive, we are unable respond to or give feedback on individual applications, but we do want to be able manage expectations.

Therefore, if you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.

• Salary: £38,500 to £42,550 at 0.6 of FTE three days a week (Flexible)
• Location: Hybrid working at Bow with a day working at home (Flexible)