Health and Safety Policy Manager

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A government department is seeking a Health and Safety manager to lead their health and safety policy function. You will work closely with senior leadership to ensure strategic compliance with health and safety regulations, oversee reporting across the organization, and promote best practices. The role offers benefits such as a generous pension contribution and flexible working options.

Benefits

Employer pension contribution of 28.97%

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Proven experience in health and safety management.
• Ability to lead and influence diverse teams.
• Strong understanding of health and safety legislation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Health and Safety policy function for the DfT Group.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety legislation.
• Manage health and safety strategy and reporting.

Job description

Can you lead on health and safety strategy while guiding teams through complex challenges with confidence and clarity?

Do you build trusted, collaborative relationships to influence positive change and ensure best practice across diverse organisations?

If so, we'd love to hear from you!

This role sits in the Estates function, reporting to the Head of Estates Programmes and is responsible for leading the Health and Safety Policy function across the DfT Group.

The role will act as the second line H&S Assurance function to the H&S Delivery team, led by the G7 H&S Delivery Manager. The relationship with the G7 H&S Delivery Manager will be key to ensuring that policy and delivery are coordinated and are used to inform one another.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

Find out more about what it's like working at DfT: Department for Transport Central - Department for Transport Careers

The role holder will lead the Health and Safety policy function. This will include working with senior leadership within the Department to set H&S strategy, ensuring the business remains compliant to legislative changes, and our policies and processes remain centred around the health, safety and wellbeing of our people, customers and partners. It will also involve working across the Executive Agencies and Arms Length Bodies (ALBs) in the DfT Group to coordinate H&S reporting and promote best practice and knowledge sharing.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

• Health and Safety Policy Management (including updates based on legislative change).
• Second line assurance of H&S.
• Health and Safety Statutory reporting across the DfT Group.
• Health and Safety Strategy.
• H&S reporting and advice to H&S committee, People Committee.
• Best practice and advice to ALBs, facilitating cooperation and knowledge sharing.
• Introduce and maintain an audit and inspection Programme for H&S assurance across DfTc Properties.
• Lead DfT group Health and Safety meetings.
• Line Management of the Health and Safety Policy team.
• Providing resilience to the Health and Safety Delivery Team.
• Deputising for the Head of Estates Programmes where required.

For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.