Health and Safety Advisor

Join us in seeing our vision come to life, where living in Letchworth Garden City offers everyone the opportunity to flourish as part of a vibrant community, enjoy the best that both town and country offers, and benefit from easy access to nature with unrivalled facilities, culture, and support networks.   

We currently have an exciting and new role available as Health and Safety Advisor reporting directly to our Health Safety and Risk Business Partner, within the property team.

Our Property Team are responsible for the active management of the Letchworth Garden City Estate. The overriding focus of the team is to efficiently steward and proactively manage the Foundation’s property assets to generate income, enhance value, provide excellent operational facilities and to ensure the estate is maintained to a high standard. The team is also central to the promotion of the Garden City and its economic growth and the delivery of the Foundations charitable objectives.

This role extends across the wider Foundation and will have an important input and responsibility for health and safety and risk management of wider functions and activities of the organisation.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Responsible for providing advice and support to all departments in relation to Health, Safety and Welfare.  You will support with the development, implementation, management and reviewing of the Health and Safety Strategy, Policy, objectives and Processes.

You will be involved in carrying out incident investigations including, accidents, property damage and near misses. To include gathering all available evidence, recording on incident reporting system and establishing the root cause to prevent a reoccurrence.

You will be involved in conducting regular safety inspections of our Venues and support and coach  our employees to achieve health and safety KPI’s and support the development of a positive safety culture.

Liaising with external bodies (Insurers, HSE, Local Fire Authorities and other Enforcing authorities) as required and assist with making all Statutory Notifications.

Assisting the Health safety & Risk Business Partner in the selection process of external contractors and consultants. Ensuring contractor H&S validation documents are monitored on Fixflo and any necessary RAMS are validated.

This role is a Hybrid remote role, a minimum of 3 days per week will be spent working in our offices in Letchworth Garden City.

ABOUT YOU

EXPERIENCE

• minimum of 2 years’ experience in a similar Health, Safety and Environmental adviser role


• Understanding and awareness of H&S law, H&S principles, procedures & property compliance experience


• IT literacy, including SharePoint, O365 and an ability to learn new systems quickly (RiskWise Compliance Reporting System)


• Great communication skills- be able to persuade and convince others where necessary to achieve desired outputs through motivating and coaching people


• Understanding of risk management and analytics


• experience in training and coaching in all aspects of Health and Safety

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• NEBOSH Certificate - Level 3


• TECH IOSH (minimum)


• Knowledge of Food Hygiene legislation, Animal Welfare and Property Compliance desirable

OUR VALUES

Collaborative.  Evidence-based.  Inclusive.  Supportive. Impactful

We are a people business. We look for passionate people who will help us to meet our vision and values. Our values demonstrate our principles and guide our actions. We want our values to come to life through people’s experience of each other and the Foundation as whole - ultimately helping create a culture that ensures our commitment to achieving our vision and mission.

BENEFITS

Every member of our team is valued, which is why we support them with a range of benefits to help them thrive both inside and outside of work.

Our benefits are grouped around three priorities – Health, Work life balance/time and Finances

Health:

Cash Health Plan

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme & Wellbeing resource

Smart Health 24/7 GP consultation

Time:

27 days holiday plus Bank Holidays (pro-rata for part time)

Holiday buy / sell scheme

1 day paid Volunteering Leave per year (pro rata for part time)



Finances:

Company Pension

Life Assurance

£220 Wellbeing Allowance per year

Electric Vehicle Scheme

Employee Discount Scheme

Discounts for our venues

APPLICATION

If you are keen to develop your skills are looking for an exciting new opportunity why not apply?

Applications must include a CV and a covering statement/letter explaining why you are applying for the role.  Applications without a covering statement may not be accepted.

Please note if we receive a large volume of applications for this role, we reserve the right to close the vacancy ahead of the published closing date.