Quality Health & Safety Advisor - HIRC

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; West Devon; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Quality Health & Safety Advisor to join its team at Heathrow Immigration Removal Centre. This role entails promoting QHSE strategies, ensuring compliance with safety regulations, and maintaining the well-being of numerous colleagues and residents. Applicants should possess relevant certifications and experience in QHSE practices.

Benefits

Virtual GP access

Financial wellbeing assistance

High street discounts

Enhanced pension contributions

Cash bonuses through Mitie Stars

Qualifications

• Experience in QHSE practices.
• Valid UK citizenship or residency.
• Driving license check required.

Responsibilities

• Promote QHSE strategies across the business.
• Provide guidance on QHSE policy and compliance.
• Conduct inspections and audits to maintain standards.

Skills

Knowledge of QHSE

Interpersonal Skills

Integrity

Flexibility

Education

NEBOSH General Certificate

Food Safety Certificate

IEMA Foundation Certificate

Tools

Microsoft Office

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Quality, Health, Safety and Environment Advisor - Heathrow Immigration Removal Centre

Job Overview

We are looking for an experienced QHSE advisor to work as part of a small team across Heathrow immigration removal centres. This is a unique environment and will allow you to further develop your existing skills and experience, ensuring the safety and well-being of up to 900 colleagues and 1100 residents across two sites near Heathrow airport.

Main Duties

• Promote the company QHSE strategy across the business, promoting and embedding the ethos of Live Safe, and ensuring contractual, company, legislative and best practice requirements are met and maintained
• Provide consistent competent advice and guidance to all Heathrow IRC colleagues and all other internal stakeholders with regards to QHSE policy, legislative requirements.
• Attend meetings, forums, as a representative of the QHSE Function
• Deputise for the QHSE Manager when required
• Work in accordance of the QHSE Yearplanner
• Work in accordance and directed from the QHSE Strategic Plan
• Provide advice, coaching and support to staff in order to maximise the efficient and effective operation of the contract.
• Complete periodic tours, inspections, audits and assessments, for Fire, Fabric, MiSHE, workplace, DSE, Food safety and any other QHSE Agendas
• Ensure that all accidents, near misses and hazard observations other safety events are reported, investigated, evidence obtained and findings shared where lessons can be learn
  
  

What we are looking for

• Experience and working knowledge of QHSE
• NEBOSH General Certificate
• Food Safety Certificate
• IEMA Foundation Certificate
• Proficient and competent in Microsoft Office PowerPoint and Excel etc.
• Must have the ability to be flexable
• Ability to build strong working relationships with Internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrate a high level of Integrity and ability to challenge legislative shortcomings with stakeholders
• Be self motivated
• Support others within the QHSE team.
  
  

Essential Criteria

• Be a UK citizen, Citizen of the Commonwealth with your own indefinite leave to remain (not through marriage) or EEA citizen.
• Have a valid and in date passport, with no restrictions on your stay in the UK. Please note Visa's in out of date passports cannot be accepted as proof of Right to Work in the UK. A Biometric card alongside a current in- date passport must be provided.
• Have continuously resided in the UK for the previous 3 years. Applicants must not have spent more than 3 months at any one time overseas during the previous 5 years.
• This position is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and Applicants must be prepared to undergo an Enhanced DBS check, complete employer referencing for the previous 5 years and vetting to the level of Counter Terrorist Checked (CTC) if offered a role.
• No driving ban/ disqualification within the previous 12 months
• Not currently bankrupt.
  
  

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 72,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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