Health & Safety Leader for College Estates

Wigan & Leigh College; Leigh; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Medicash healthcare plan

Local Government Pension Scheme

Job summary

Wigan & Leigh College is seeking a Health and Safety Manager to lead health and safety advice across campuses and estates. You will develop, implement and continuously improve safety policies, risk-based audits and assurance activities across varied environments.

The role requires strong professional judgment, practical systems thinking and the ability to build capability in managers while maintaining a focus on proportionate controls.

Qualifications

• A recognised professional health and safety qualification, normally a NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent.
• Membership of a relevant professional body, or the ability to obtain appropriate membership.
• Significant professional health and safety experience within a complex organisation.
• Experience developing and improving health and safety management systems.
• Experience delivering risk-based audits, inspections and assurance activity.
• Strong experience of accident and incident investigation, including identifying underlying and root causes.
• Experience advising on risk assessment, safe systems of work and higher-risk activities.
• Strong coaching and influencing skills, with experience helping managers take ownership of health and safety.
• The professional judgement to distinguish significant risk from lower-level issues and recommend proportionate action.
• Confidence using digital systems, data and dashboards to identify trends and provide assurance.
• Experience in further education, education, construction, public services or another complex regulated environment would be useful, but we're more interested in your ability to build effective systems, develop people and influence change.

Responsibilities

• Act as the College's competent source of health and safety advice, providing practical, authoritative advice and professional challenge.
• Lead and continuously improve our health and safety framework, systems, policies and improvement plan.
• Coach managers to understand their responsibilities, assess risk and put effective, proportionate controls in place.
• Lead audits, inspections and assurance; investigate incidents; drive root-cause learning for practical improvement.
• Provide professional oversight of key safety and emergency arrangements, including fire safety, first aid, evacuation and lockdown.
• Use compliance information, data from CAFM system and dashboards to give leaders clear visibility of risk, trends and outstanding actions.
• Keep legislation, regulation and good practice under review and translate changes into practical action for the College.

Skills

Coaching and influencing

Risk assessment

Audits and assurance

Stakeholder engagement

Digital dashboards

Education

NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent

Professional body membership

Tools

CAFM system

Data dashboards

Job description

Wigan & Leigh College is seeking a Health and Safety Manager to lead health and safety advice across campuses and estates. You will develop, implement and continuously improve safety policies, risk-based audits and assurance activities across varied environments.

The role requires strong professional judgment, practical systems thinking and the ability to build capability in managers while maintaining a focus on proportionate controls.