HSE Incident and Investigation Specialist

Sovereign Housing Association Limited; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A housing association in Basingstoke is seeking an HSE Incident and Investigation Specialist to provide expert guidance on health and safety incidents. This role involves triaging incidents, leading investigations, and enhancing safety culture. Candidates should have prior HSE experience, NEBOSH certifications, and the ability to analyze safety trends. The position offers a blend of office and remote work to promote work/life balance, with generous benefits including holiday, pension schemes, and wellbeing initiatives.

Benefits

25 days holiday + Bank Holidays

Flexible holiday buying/selling

Wellbeing days

Matched pension scheme

Life cover

Enhanced maternity/adoption pay

Private medical insurance options

Gym memberships discounts

Qualifications

• Experience investigating complex health & safety incidents in a construction-related environment.
• NEBOSH certifications are required for this role.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice on incident classification and reporting.
• Triage HSE incidents and ensure report accuracy.
• Lead the development of practices for learning from incidents.
• Analyze incident trends and provide reports.

Skills

Experience in HSE roles

Deep understanding of Health & Safety regulations

Investigating complex health & safety incidents

Coaching and supporting incident investigators

Education

NEBOSH National General Certificate

NEBOSH Level 6 National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety

Job description

We have a great opportunity to join Sovereign Network Group (SNG) as a HSE Incident and Investigation Specialist within our People and Transformation team. You'll be based ideally from our Basingstoke office with flexibility around being based from our other locations. This role will combine office and home working to ensure a positive work/life balance.

It's an exciting time to join us as Sovereign have joined forces with Network Homes to form SNG (Sovereign Network Group). Together we provide over 84,000 homes and invest in communities across London and the South of England – our purpose being to provide quality affordable homes and places that people love for generations.

The Role

In this role, to provide specialist advice, guidance and support to the organisation in incident classification, reporting, investigation and trend analysis. To provide incident triage, and severity identification related to HSE incident management. To build organisational capability to learn from incidents.

Key Responsibilities

• Triage all HSE incidents within the E-safe reporting system, assigning severities and ensuring accuracy in record detail
• Coach and support incident investigators to continuously improve and achieve professional excellence in the quality of investigations and investigation reports
• Lead the development and implementation of industry leading practices for investigating and learning from incidents, applying the core principles of human and organisational performance
• Advance safety culture change by applying principles of just and fair culture to investigations
• Lead the analysis of incidents and incident causation trends, producing reports from that data drawing out meaningful conclusions and clear recommendations
• Ensure prompt escalation of LTI/RIDDOR/HiPo to HSE Managers and senior advisors for investigation

We are looking for someone who has

• Experience in HSE roles
• Deep understanding of Health & Safety regulations
• Nebosh National General Certificate
• Experience investigating complex health & safety incidents in construction related environment
• NEBOSH Level 6 National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety

Benefits

We have some great benefits at SNG, including:

• 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)
• Chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package
• 3 additional Wellbeing days and 2 paid volunteering days
• Generous matched pension scheme up to 12% and Life cover at 4x salary
• Enhanced maternity/adoption pay
• Enhanced paternity pay - 6 weeks full pay (after 26 weeks' service)
• Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance and critical illness cover
• Wellbeing discounts, including Gym Memberships and access to a 24/7 virtual GP service

We are committed to our Equality Diversity and Inclusion strategy and believe that you can truly be yourself at SNG.

This is a great opportunity to join the team as we progress through an exciting period of change at SNG. We pride ourselves on having a relaxed, supportive and forward-thinking culture, working collaboratively to achieve success.