Health and Safety Manager

wigan-leigh-ac-uk; Wigan; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Wigan and Leigh College is recruiting an experienced Health & Safety Manager to provide professional health and safety advice and leadership across its campuses and operations. You will test controls, identify significant risks, and ensure issues remain visible until resolved, exercising professional judgement and proportionate action.

The role requires influencing managers, building confidence and capability, and applying robust safety systems across classrooms, workshops, laboratories and

Responsibilities

• Provide professional health and safety advice with technical credibility and practical judgement.
• Lead, challenge and assure safety arrangements across campuses, curriculum areas and operations.

Job description

Health & Safety Manager

37 Hours per Week | Permanent | All Year Round

About this job

Good health and safety isn’t about creating more paperwork. It’s about understanding where the real risks are, putting effective controls in place and giving people the confidence to manage them well.

As our Health and Safety Manager, you’ll be the College’s competent source of professional health and safety advice. You’ll provide leadership, challenge and assurance across our campuses, curriculum areas and operational services, helping us maintain arrangements that are safe, proportionate and effective in practice.

You’ll work with managers to build their confidence and capability, rather than taking responsibility away from them. You’ll help us understand where our biggest risks sit, test whether our controls are working and make sure significant issues remain visible until they are resolved.

And there is plenty of variety. Our environment includes classrooms, engineering and construction workshops, laboratories, specialist facilities, public spaces, contractors, events and major estate activity. Different environments bring different risks, so professional judgement and proportionality really matter here.

This role would suit an experienced health and safety professional who combines technical credibility with practical judgement, strong systems thinking and the ability to bring people with them.