Health and Safety Advisor - Coventry, United Kingdom - Homes England

Homes England
Homes England
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Coventry, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Salary:

- £34,027 - £40,032
Job grade:


  • Other
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Type of role:
  • Health Adviser
  • Health and Safety
  • Property
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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Location

  • Coventry (West Midlands) or Northstowe (Cambridgeshire)About the job

Job summary:


  • Working in a team with Julie Richardson, Senior Manager
  • Safety, Health & Environment, other Advisors, Assistants and Analysts, the Health and Safety Adviser will play a critical role in ensuring that Homes England's duties and responsibilities under Health and Safety Legislation are complied with. You will be joining our small but perfectly formed team, who are enthusiastic, friendly, highly skilled and experienced and who are committed to making positive change in how health and safety is managed.

Job description:


Julie believes in delivering a first-class customer service, by taking an innovative and creative approach; and also believes in working in a collaborative and flexible way to foster good relationships, decision making and problem solving within their team and the wider organisation.


This is a rare chance to shape the future of health and safety in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose.

Working with key stakeholders and a professional health and safety team you will ensure efficient, consistent and effective resolution of issues and have the opportunity to help create a great health and safety culture.

The role will support the design and delivery of key strategic projects around health and safety.

There are some exciting/rewarding/creative/ and ambitious projects to get involved with and this is an excellent opportunity to balance day to day delivery whilst bringing innovative solutions to the health and safety offering.


Person specification:


Whilst our day job is to deliver first class customer service to our stakeholders with regard to health and safety, you will be used to "spinning several plates" at once and will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate.


Educated to either Level 5-6 NVQ/Diploma, or holding a degree level qualification in Health and Safety, membership of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) is essential for this position.

You will have excellent communication and presentation skills and be experienced in the delivery of health and safety training whilst also being comfortable in supporting teams with complex health and safety issues, across a wide range of Health and Safety topics

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn't always easy.

You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as a health and safety team.

You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade.


You'll possess strong knowledge of health and safety management systems including auditing processes and as an experienced health and safety professional you'll understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.


Benefits:

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme.

We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people.

In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:


Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.


Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance.

We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.


Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.


Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values.

We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

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