Health & Safety Advisor

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd; Whitby; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Staffordshire County Council is seeking a proactive health and safety professional to advise and support across Children and Families services, with focus on residential settings. You will undertake audits, implement policies, and drive continuous improvement in safety standards.

Role requires NEBOSH diploma, IOSH membership, and willingness to travel across Staffordshire. Full-time, Monday–Friday, with emergency duty officer duties in rotation.

Qualifications

• Hold a NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent qualification.
• Have corporate membership of IOSH.
• Experience in health and safety role.

Responsibilities

• Provide health, safety, and wellbeing advice and guidance to services and customers.
• Carry out health, safety, and wellbeing audits and produce reports.
• Promote risk assessment principles and accident prevention.
• Advise on risk management for Health and Care teams.
• Deliver training across health and safety topics.
• Act as duty officer for the service on a rota basis.

Skills

Communication skills

Auditing & inspections

Training delivery

Education

NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent

IOSH membership

Experience in health and safety role

Job description

£40,444 to £45,529 per year, Competitive

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

Yes

Closing Date:

20/09/2026

About this job

The Staffordshire Health, Safety and Wellbeing Service is a dynamic team of professionals specialising in health and safety, fire safety, and occupational health.

We provide responsive, supportive advice, guidance, and training to council services, schools, and academies as part of our traded offer.

Our team is innovative, creative, and motivated, continually striving to develop health and safety standards across our organisation.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and self-motivated person to join our service.

You will play a key role in driving the health and safety culture forward within a varied work environment, offering both responsibility and the opportunity to make a real impact across a broad range of services.

You will advise, monitor, and provide practical health and safety support across Children and Families services, with a particular focus on children’s residential settings.

This will include supporting risk management arrangements within residential homes, community-based services, and commissioned provider activities, alongside wider health and safety support to council services, traded customers, and partners.

This role is based out of Staffordshire Place but will work across the county at customer locations to suit business needs.

It is a full time role working Monday to Friday.

As part of the role you will act as Forward Control Officer in emergency situations and may on occasion be called out of hours to assist with such duties.

Main Responsibilities

The main responsibilities of this role include:

Provide professional health, safety, and wellbeing advice and guidance to County Council Service Managers partnership organisations and customers.

Carry out health, safety, and wellbeing audits and produce detailed reports.

Promote risk assessment principles and active accident prevention.

Advise on risk management arrangements for our Health and Care teams and services.

Contribute to continuously improving standards in line with legislative changes and best practice.

Assist and support managers with the development and monitoring of health and safety in their teams.

Deliver and assist in the development of training across all aspects of health and safety.

Act as the key advisor to nominated areas of responsibility (service, business unit,). Lead or participate in allocated project work.

Act as the duty officer for the service on a rota basis, providing first point of contact advice to all customers and reviewing incident reports submitted.

The Ideal Candidate

For the purpose of shortlisting, the minimum criteria for the role are:

Hold a NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent qualification.

Have corporate membership of IOSH. Have comprehensive experience in a health and safety role.

Have experience of working in social care, health settings or similar relevant experience.

Have experience in audits, inspections, accident investigations, and implementing health and safety policies and procedures.

Be skilled in delivering health and safety training.

Be effective communicators, able to influence and use initiative to ensure compliance and continual improvement in a complex environment.

Be able to drive as travel across Staffordshire and occasionally outside the county is part of the role.

Interviews will be held week commencing 28th September 2026.

Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered.

Please note: The minimum criteria in the ideal candidate section detailed above will be used if you are applying under one of our Interview Guarantee Schemes, detailed below.

About Staffordshire County Council

We are no ordinary county council: Our Values: The core of who we are as an organisation.

Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy: We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together.

This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people.

We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead

• that goes for your career too.

Our benefits: We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do.

We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits

• Careers at Staffordshire Our recruitment process: As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer.

We encourage applications from all background and communities As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers

• we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

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