Occupational Health Adviser

Forest Camping Limited; Cannock Chase; Hybrid; GBP 30.000 - 37.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Civil Service Pension Scheme

25 days holiday

Wellbeing & employee discounts

Zusammenfassung

Forestry England in Cannock Chase is seeking an Occupational Health Adviser to join the Health, Safety and Technical Training Team. The role focuses on managing risks to staff, volunteers, contractors and visitors, and ensuring competence at all levels across the organisation.

The position is permanent, 37 hours per week, based in Cannock Chase with occasional travel across Forestry England. A blended working pattern and Civil Service pensions are key benefits on offer.

Aufgaben

• Join Health, Safety and Technical Training Team as Occupational Health Adviser.
• Manage risks to staff, volunteers, contractors and visitors and ensure competence across operator, management and leadership levels.
• Evaluate compliance, health and safety priorities and training needs across Forestry England.

Jobbeschreibung

Job Details

Job title – Occupational Health Adviser

Salary - £33, 854 per annum

Contract type – Permanent

Hours – 37 hours per week

Vacancy closes - Monday 16th November 23:58

About Us

We are Forestry England.We live and breathe forests.Join us. We're foresters, professionals and experts. We are a passionate team who love to share our enthusiasm and want to make a positive difference for you and the environment.Together, we’re using our scale and expertise to grow the nation’s forests for everyone. We’re already adapting our landscapes for tomorrow, and getting stuff done today, like creating amazing places and experiences for you to enjoy. We're providing vital homes for wildlife, making our air cleaner to breathe and producing sustainable timber.

What you’ll do

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Health, Safety and Technical Training Team as an Occupational Health Adviser.The Health, Safety and Technical Training (HSTT) team has a focus on managing risks to our staff, volunteers, contractors and visitors. Ensuring competence at all levels including operator, management and leadership skills. HSTT work closely with function heads, team leaders and staff groups to evaluate compliance, health and safety priorities and training needs across the organisation.Forestry England manages the public forest estate on behalf of the Forestry Commission in England. The 254,000-hectare estate is the largest single landholding in the country, comprising over 15,000 separate properties, including some of the finest woodlands, forest and open land in England, a wide range of housing and commercial property and a variety of recreation/leisure businesses. The properties are spread across England with management centred on 6 Forest Districts, supported by specialist business units and the National Office teams.You would be joining a family of approximately 1,200 colleagues and approximately 3,000 volunteers working across a broad range of roles to help us manage the estate, spanning forestry and land management, timber harvesting, property development, recreation and events and the management of 27 visitor centres. Please see the job description below for more information and details about what we need from you.

Where you’ll work

The role is based out of Cannock Chase, Staffordshire with occasional travel required to locations across Forestry England. Therole can have the flexibility of working from home when not required in an office or on site (blended working). The role doesn’t meet the criteria for contractual home working.Please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas.

Benefits

• Alongside your salary, Forestry England contributes an average of 28.97% towards your pension.
• You will become a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension Scheme.
• 25 days holiday a year, raising by one day every year’s service, up to 30 days (pro-rated for part time employees) plus additional days off such as bank holidays.
• STaRis our employee benefits scheme offering discounts on everyday supermarket shopping, as well as other things such as hotel stays clothes, mobile phones, other electrical items, medical and car insurance, holidays, gym discounts, household bills, Headspace wellbeing app.
• free parking at Forestry England sites and free entry to our National Arboretums at Westonbirt and Bedgebury.
• a commitment to lifelong learning through career development.
• Forestry England will support your career development in a variety of ways, including continual professional development, support for individual learning plans and sponsored membership of professional bodies.

Working for the Civil Service

Forestry England is part of the Civil Service. The Civil Service has a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). This means candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria during the application process will be guaranteed an interview. We also offer a Redeployment Interview Scheme to current civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the role. This role is also part of the Great Place to Work for VeteransandPrison Leaver Recruitment initiative. Within Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, it is essential that applicants should have the ability to provide conversation in accurate spoken English.

Our recruitment process makes appointments based on fair and open competition and merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in in line with/according to these principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email: [e-mail].

Reasonable Adjustments

If you require any reasonable adjustments, please email [e-mail].