Health, Safety & Resilience Advisor

Stevenage Borough Council; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Flexible working

Job share opportunities

Holidays: 25–31 days

Job summary

Stevenage Borough Council is seeking a Health, Safety & Resilience Advisor to support managers and staff across the Council in maintaining safe, healthy workplaces. You will provide practical advice, conduct audits and investigations, and promote a positive health, safety and wellbeing culture.

Reporting to the Health, Safety and Resilience Manager, you will help deliver wellbeing and resilience initiatives, ensure policies stay compliant, and support business continuity and emergency planning

Qualifications

• Minimum NEBOSH National General Certificate or equivalent.
• Sound understanding of health and safety legislation and practical application across varied environments.
• Experience with inspections, risk assessments, audits or investigations.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills for managers and employees.
• Ability to deliver training and promote best practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide practical health and safety advice across Council services.
• Undertake audits, inspections and investigations.
• Support health, safety, wellbeing and resilience programmes.
• Assist with monitoring, reporting and record-keeping across teams.

Skills

Health and safety

Resilience

Audits

Inspections

Training delivery

Communication

Education

NEBOSH National General Certificate

Job description

"Job Title Health, Safety & Resilience Advisor

Post Number 000426

Weekly Working Hours 37

Salary Range £38,510 to £42,123 pa – pro rata for hours worked

Type Of Contract Fixed Term – 12 Months

Location Stevenage

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated health, safety and/or resilience professional to join Stevenage Borough Council's Health, Safety and Resilience Team.
You will play a key role in supporting managers and employees across the Council to maintain safe, healthy and legally compliant workplaces. Working across a diverse range of services, you will provide practical health and safety advice, undertake audits, inspections and investigations, and help promote a positive health, safety and wellbeing culture throughout the organisation.
Reporting to the Health, Safety and Resilience Manager, you will support the delivery of the Council's health, safety, wellbeing and resilience programmes, ensuring that policies, procedures and safe systems of work remain effective and aligned with legislation and best practice.
The role covers a broad range of service areas, including housing and property services, environmental and operational services, community services and office-based functions. You will work closely with managers and employees to identify risks, develop practical solutions and support continuous improvement in health and safety performance.
You will also support the Council's wellbeing programme, helping to develop and promote initiatives that support employee health and wellbeing. In addition, you will provide support to the Council's resilience and emergency planning arrangements, contributing to business continuity activities and emergency preparedness work.
This role offers an excellent opportunity for a developing health and safety or resilience professional to build experience across a wide range of services while making a meaningful contribution to the safety, wellbeing and resilience of the organisation.

About You

We are looking for someone with experience in a health and safety role, supported by relevant professional qualifications, including a minimum of a NEBOSH National General Certificate (or equivalent).
You will have a sound understanding of health and safety legislation and be able to apply this knowledge in a practical way across a varied working environment. Experience of carrying out inspections, risk assessments, audits or workplace investigations would be advantageous.
Strong communication and relationship-building skills are essential, enabling you to provide clear advice and guidance to managers and employees at all levels. You will be confident delivering training, promoting best practice and supporting positive behavioural change.
You will be organised, proactive and able to manage competing priorities while maintaining excellent attention to detail. A collaborative approach and a genuine commitment to improving health, safety and wellbeing are key to success in this role.
You will also be comfortable using IT systems to support monitoring, reporting and record-keeping activities.

Our benefits

• Pension Scheme: We offer a career average pension scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants
• Flexible working: Available upon request, subject to operational requirements.
• Part time and Job share opportunities: All our full-time vacancies are open to job share unless otherwise stated.
• Leave: A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave, maternity, paternity, adoption and parental leave.
• Holidays: 25 days holiday rising to 31 days (depending on Local Government service)
• Training: An extensive range of learning and development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme: 24/7 Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues
• Travel: Season ticket loans and discounts for public transport
• Cycling: Cycle to Work scheme
• Stevenage Credit Union: Secure savings, free life insurance and access to cheap loans.
• Employee Discounts: Via monthly paid membership of the Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC)
• Wellbeing: Discounted Health and Fitness membership
• Trade Unions: For a small fee, all employees have the opportunity to join a Trade Union

Stevenage Borough Council (SBC) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff, volunteers and recruitment candidates to share this commitment. SBC shall take all reasonable steps to employ staff who are safe to work with children, young people and vulnerable adults. For posts identified with regular contact with these groups applicants will be required to undertake a Value Based Interview. The council supports the legislative requirements for employing and maintaining safer staff and the guidance specified by Hertfordshire Safeguarding Adults Board | Hertfordshire County Council

We are changing.

Stevenage Borough Council is undergoing Local Government Reorganisation (LGR). If you are employed by Stevenage Borough Council on 1 April 2028, it is expected that the majority of roles will transfer to the newly-created unitary councils on existing terms and conditions under TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings – Protection of Employment) principles.

LGR is one of the biggest changes we will face in a generation. It will reshape how we work and how services are organised and gives us a real opportunity to build something better.

Stevenage Borough Council is committed to Equal Opportunities for All.