Senior Health and Safety Advisor - Abingdon, United Kingdom - South Oxfordshire District Council

South Oxfordshire District Council

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Abingdon, United Kingdom

3 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Salary:
Grade 8, £50,764- £55,789

Duration of role:
Permanent

Hours per week: 37

Location:
Hybrid - home / offsite and council offices (Abbey House, Abbey Close, Abingdon OX14 3JE), as required

Closing Date: 15 September 2023

Are you interested in health and safety and the role it plays in positive wellbeing of staff? If so, this is the role for you to help us transform our approach to health and safety across the councils.

The post holder will be responsible for designing and supporting the delivery of the councils' health and safety strategy along with the associated policies and arrangements for delivering its implementation across the councils.

You'll get the opportunity to be involved in almost every aspect of the councils' activities, providing specialist knowledge in support of, and learning from, the experts managing the services.

Most importantly the role needs to ensure that our staff help shape are adopting safe working practices.

You will need the knowledge, skills, and experience to deliver, and the interpersonal, communication and persuasion skills to bring everyone with you on the journey.

Main duties and responsibilities Senior Advisor:

Maintain an understanding of existing and new health and safety legislation and/or best practice.
Ensure statutory reporting of incidents to the external Health and Safety Executive as appropriate.
Manage all administrative and statistical data in relation to health and safety
Devise and manage the development and review of the councils' health and safety strategy
Review and update operational health and safety policies and procedures
Provide advice and guidance to staff, service teams, managers and SMT on health and safety matters
Develop and deliver a training approach and programme for health and safety
Ensure that appropriate resources are made available to address unacceptable health and safety risks.
Lead on health and safety matters across both councils on behalf of the Head of Paid Service.
Undertake regular auditing of work areas to proactively identify risks and provide expert guidance
Investigate accidents and provide expert guidance to support managers in ensuring that any necessary actions to mitigate future risks are actioned
Lead in the evaluation of contractors Health and Safety policies and procedures both during tender process and ongoing contract monitoring where appropriate.
Provide input into the creation and deployment of service plans.
Contribute to budget planning and monitoring.
Oversee and contract manage the corporate lone worker system and oversee the threat premises systems.
Manage the content of the health and safety intranet pages on the learning management system
Develop, administer, and deliver training packages and, where applicable, procure training
Ensuring the councils' health and safety policies and procedures are deployed correctly
Prepare for and participate in internal audits for health and safety.
Responsibility for line management of the health and safety advisor

Your essential skills, knowledge, and experience:

A comprehensive knowledge of health and safety legislation, guidance, and best practice in a related sector
A welldeveloped understanding of the importance of health and safety strategy and policy and the practical steps required for their effective implementation
A minimum of five years' experience in health and safety in a management or supervisory role

- membership of a relevant professional body, such as IOSH, with up-to-date CPD training

A proven track record of proactively identifying problems and taking the initiative for solving them

- have a valid full driving licence, a vehicle and insurance to drive for work purposes

Your essential qualifications:

A degree or equivalent qualification
The NEBOSH diploma or equivalent qualification
A full driving licence

If you have the following experience or qualifications - it's a bonus:

Experience of managing change in health and safety culture
Experience of leading health and safety strategy and policy development
Experience of influencing and demonstrating the practical steps required for the effective implementation of a new health and safety culture
Experience of planning, monitoring, and managing budgets
Local government experience

About us:

Our vision and values are important to the councils, and we expect you to support them and embed them in the way we work.

Our vision:

We are seen as being customer-focussed, approachable and business-like. We are honest and open and are renowned for providing high-quality cost-effective services.

Our values:

We act with integrity and show respect
We are all accountable
We are passionate about our business
We strive for simplicity
We love success

The benefits we offer:

A basic 24 days annual leave per annum, rising to 29 days after five years.
Flexible working and annualised hours a flexible approach to work that our employees love
Salary pay awards
Payment of annual professional membership
A generous career average pension scheme which includes life insurance of three times your salary
The opportunity to purchase a bike through Cyclescheme
Various schemes to keep you healthy
We give you two days per year to volunteer within the local community

You may have experience of the following: SHEQ Advisor, Health and Safety Advisor, H&S Officer, H&S Advisor, Health and Safety Advisor, NEBOSH, CMIOSH, Risk Assessment, Health & Safety Consultant, CMIOSH, SHE Advisor, Quality Assurance, H&S, SHEQ, Public Sector, Local Authority, Local Government, etc.

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