Health & Safety Lead

Wellcome Trust; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 72,000; Full time

Job summary

A global charitable foundation is seeking an experienced Health and Safety Lead to develop and implement a health and safety strategy. Responsibilities include reviewing policies and ensuring a safe environment for all. Candidates should have relevant certifications in health and safety management, senior management experience, and budget management skills. This role offers a hybrid working model and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• Relevant certifications in health and safety management (e.g., NEBOSH).
• Proven senior experience in a health and safety management role.
• Experience managing budgets and high performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a comprehensive health and safety strategy.
• Conduct a review of policies, systems, and procedures.
• Ensure a safe environment for staff, visitors, and contractors.

Skills

Relevant certifications in health and safety management (e.g., NEBOSH)

Proven senior experience in a health and safety management role

Budget management

Experience of delivering high quality projects

Job description

Overview

Salary: £72,950

Closing date: 8thOctober

Contract type: Permanent

Interview dates: W/C 6thOctober and W/C 13thOctober

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships.

We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.

These challenges need the bold science we support, but they won’t be solved by science alone.

The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Health and Safety Lead to join the People team to develop and implement a comprehensive health and safety strategy. The Health and Safety Lead will be responsible for a comprehensive review of policies, systems and procedures in line with legislative requirements, incident management, auditing and governance across both office and public facing environments to ensure a safe environment for staff, visitors, and contractors at Wellcome.

You can read the full job description on our website.

Application and Minimum Requirements

To apply for this role please submit an up-to-date CV and answer 2 application questions to demonstrate that you meet the minimum requirements for the role. The minimum requirements of the role are:

• Relevant certifications in health and safety management (e.g., NEBOSH).
• Proven senior experience in a health and safety management role, preferably within both office-based and public environments.
• Budget management: experience of managing budgets and headcount and leading positive, high performing teams with inclusive working cultures.
• Experience of delivering high quality projects/pieces within tight deadlines.

You can read more about the benefits we offer our employees on our website.

Our Hybrid Way of Working

We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best.

At Wellcome we have a hybrid way of working which is 3 days in our Euston Road offices (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office. Due to the nature of this role you may be required to be in the office on additional days.

Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome. We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. Please visit our website for more information on adjustments and accessibility or contact us at [e-mail].

Upon a conditional offer being made, the successful applicant for this position will be required to undertake a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (or equivalent) criminal record check to disclose any ‘unspent’ criminal convictions or conditional cautions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The criminal record check will not show anything that is ‘spent’.

For further guidance on disclosure of criminal records please see UK Government Guidance.

You can view our Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-offenders here. You can view our Privacy Statement here.

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