Senior Health and Safety Advisor

The Clancy Group; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension

Healthcare

Holiday allowance starting at 24-26

Clancy Xtras

Employee discounts

Cycle to work

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

The Clancy Group is seeking a Senior Health & Safety Advisor to support Southern Water, delivering practical safety guidance on-site across multiple sites. You’ll drive safe behaviours, conduct inspections, and lead investigations to prevent recurrence.

You will need a strong operational background, NEBOSH General (or Construction) Certificate, Tech IOSH, and a full UK driving licence. Travel across the region is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience in Health & Safety within construction, utilities, water or civils.
• NEBOSH General or Construction Certificate essential.
• Proven advisory experience on-site with strong practical focus.

Responsibilities

• Carry out regular site inspections, audits and behavioural observations.
• Provide practical Health & Safety advice to operational teams.
• Lead accident investigations, identify root causes and improvements.
• Promote positive safety behaviours and ABC tours.
• Support teams to meet Health, Safety and Wellbeing objectives.
• Identify gaps and improve H&S processes, procedures and performance.
• Contribute H&S input into tenders, bids and planning.
• Communicate legislative changes and implement new practices.
• Ensure safe working conditions across diverse site environments.

Skills

Health & Safety

Operational on-site

Stakeholder engagement

Investigations

Education

NEBOSH General Certificate

Tech IOSH membership

Tools

Microsoft Office

Database systems

Job description

That’s why we need people like you to help us. People who enjoy finding new ways to solve problems and get things done.

We have an opportunity for an experienced, qualified Senior Health & Safety Advisor to join our team, working with our client Southern Water.

This is a key role supporting our operational teams to deliver work safely, promote colleague wellbeing and continually improve Health & Safety standards across the contract. You’ll take a hands-on approach, working across multiple sites and building strong relationships with teams on the ground to provide practical advice and support.

This isn’t a desk-based advisory role. You’ll be out on site, understanding the challenges our teams face, promoting positive safety behaviours and helping to find solutions that work in practice.

Here are some of the activities you will be involved in…

• Carrying out regular site inspections, audits and behavioural safety observations to check compliance and support safe systems of work.
• Providing practical Health & Safety advice and guidance to operational teams and colleagues at all levels.
• Supporting and leading accident and incident investigations, identifying root causes and recommending improvements to prevent recurrence.
• Promoting positive safety behaviours, encouraging hazard reporting and delivering ABC (Attitude, Behaviour and Culture) tours.
• Supporting operational teams to meet their Health, Safety and Wellbeing objectives and follow relevant legislation, company procedures and best practice.
• Identifying gaps in Health & Safety processes and helping to improve systems, procedures and overall performance.
• Providing Health & Safety input into tenders, bids and operational planning.
• Communicating changes in legislation and supporting the implementation of new requirements and working practices.
• Supporting safe working conditions across a range of operational and site environments, while considering environmental impacts and colleague wellbeing.

We would love to hear from you if…

You’re an experienced Health & Safety professional with a strong operational background in construction, utilities, water or civil engineering. You’ll have a sound understanding of current Health, Safety and Environmental legislation and at least five years’ experience in a similar advisory role.

You’ll be confident working across multiple sites, building relationships and influencing colleagues at all levels. A practical, solutions-focused approach is essential, along with the ability to engage teams, promote best practice and support a positive safety culture.

A NEBOSH General or Construction Certificate (or equivalent) is essential, along with Tech IOSH membership. Progression towards Graduate IOSH, or equivalent, would be desirable.

You’ll also need a full UK driving licence and be flexible to travel across the region, with some flexibility in working hours to support operational requirements. Good IT skills, including experience using Microsoft Office and database systems, are also required.

Our Company

Every day we work smarter, greener and use our imaginations.

Our purpose at Clancy is simple - we make life better for everyone’s growing families. We play a vital role in providing fresh drinking water and power to millions of homes and businesses and so much more.

We are one of the biggest family owned construction businesses in the UK and we care about our people, our clients and the environment.

Benefits

• competitive salary
• pension
• healthcare
• holiday allowance starting at 24-26 days per annum
• Clancy Xtras
• employee benefits programme with discounts for numerous well-known retailers such as Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Currys PC World and Vue Cinemas
• cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

Clancy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made for you to attend an interview, please do let us know and we will be happy to accommodate.

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and Disability Confident Committed.