Health, Safety - Gateshead, United Kingdom - The Glasshouse International Centre for Music

The Glasshouse International Centre for Music
The Glasshouse International Centre for Music
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Gateshead, United Kingdom

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Audience Experience & Operations Manager

Location:
The Glasshouse International Centre for Music


Department:
Operations


Working hours: 36 hours per week

Salary:
SCP 36, £36,012 per annum


Closing date:9am, Friday 19th April


About The Glasshouse International Centre for Music
We are an international music centre based on the banks of the River Tyne.

We are a unique venue where artists from across the world perform and audiences from a wide range of backgrounds come to hear, make, and enjoy all types of music.


We support local people to be creative, to develop a passion for music and put music at the heart of communities.

Our artist development programme provides local artists with the opportunities they need to develop a career in music.

We support young people to make music in our building and in the wider community through programmes such as In Harmony Newcastle Gateshead.

We believe our work makes life better for people in the North East. We're building a creative, diverse, and passionate team and that's where you come in.


You must have proven experience of:

  • Leading the health and safety function within a multi-faceted organisation for a minimum of two years.
  • Engaging with all teams to create a culture of health and safety, ensuring teams are aware of their health and safety responsibilities and are motivated to assess risk and work safely.
  • Strong decisionmaking and problem solving.
  • Leading change projects.
  • Monitoring, investigating and reporting upon safety incidents, monitoring trends and making and delivering proactive recommendations for change.
  • Training others to upskill their safety knowledge e.g manual handling, creating risk assessments, fire safety.
  • Setting up and monitoring compliance processes, to ensure regulatory requirements are met across all departments for example; licensing, charity reporting, certification or similar.

Skills and knowledge:


  • Methodical approach
  • Good time management and well organised
  • Highly motivated, with a positive attitude to lead and influence others
  • Excellent communicator
  • Project Management
  • Coaching skills
  • Training skills
  • Living the organisational values with each decision and interaction
  • Exceptional organisation and administrative skills and ability to multitask many complex projects to deadline
  • Knowledge General Data Protection Regulations May 201
  • Excellent computer skills and knowledge of Microsoft Programmes
  • Able to write policies and procedures that are accurate and effective
  • Able to oversee action plans through to completion
  • Good attention to detail

Qualifications:


  • General NEBOSH
  • IOSH Qualification

It also helps if you have:

  • Training qualification or experience of delivering effective training
  • GDPR expertise
  • Working within a charity
  • A passion for live music.

About the role of Health, Safety and Compliance Lead
This is a key role within The Glasshouse International Centre for Music and divides into two sections.

1) Health & Safety - To lead Health & Safety for the organisation providing expertise, guidance and advice to teams, developing a true culture of health and safety and continuous improvement.

2) Compliance -Ensuring that the charity, its employees and its projects comply with all relevant regulations and specifications. This could include health and safety, environmental, legal or quality standards.


Overall purpose of the role
The purpose of this role is to hold the organisation's health and safety and compliance processes and practices.

Work with teams to ensure that a culture of health and safety is lived by all. Guiding others to ensure safe processes and practices are in place with excellent levels of supporting paperwork. Monitoring and ensuring incidents are investigated to promote continuous improvement.

Lead all of the charity's compliance requirements, engaging with teams to fulfil their responsibilities.

This will include collating and managing a database of all compliance requirements, and proactively monitoring actions and updates as and when required.


Work with the Health, Safety and Safeguarding committee to ensure that organisation focus is maintained, and actions (both health and safety and compliance) are being monitored and completed.


Providing analysis reporting and insights to the leadership team as a way to ensure leadership focus and overall improvement for future practices.


Your responsibilities:


  • Drive cultural change and behaviour, demonstrating best practice towards health and safety, and compliance.
  • Continuously improve the organisations Health and Safety procedures, standards and processes.
  • Lead the Health & Safety committee to deliver organisation change
  • Keep up to date with changes in health & safety law and advice
  • Ensure teams maintain compliance against latest legislative criteria.
  • Ensure a zero incident culture within health and safety
  • Work with t
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