Health and Safety Consultant - South East England, United Kingdom - Kingsgate Recruitment Ltd

Kingsgate Recruitment Ltd

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South East England, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About the job

Looking to accelerate your health and safety career in 2023?
If so, come and work for us

My client is offering you a rewarding role within a supportive working environment and an exceptional industry-wide reputation for training and development.

Your next step in your career

As a Health & Safety Risk Consultant you'll play a key role in helping our clients understand, assess and control their workplace risks - drafting risk assessments and policies/procedures, carrying out fire risk assessments, undertaking audits and reviewsand offering valued problem-solving advice.

As a confident trainer, you'll also be delivering the nationally-recognised IOSH courses (_Managing Safely_ and _Working Safely_) and have the chance to carry out other training too - including fire safety, First Aid and Mental Health First Aid.

As part of the wider team, you'll be working closely not only with your Risk Management colleagues but our insurance advisors, using your strong communication skills to articulate the importance and benefits of good health and safety and the range of serviceswe can offer.

The key areas of responsibility for this role include:

Client Management - Delivering health and safety services and training, managing client contract renewals, identifying up-selling opportunities, and providing a reliable and high-quality advisory service. This will include managing own diary,booking in client visits in a timely fashion, writing up reports and documentation, issuing renewal invitations and completing invoicing.

This role will be home-based with the expectation of attendance in either the Burgess Hill or Twickenham offices, when required.

Due to the nature of this role regular business travel will be required, with an expectation that - in time - your week will be broadly a 3-Day/2-Day split between visiting clients and time at home/in office writing up reports and preparing for forthcomingwork.

Working prominately wihin the South East although occasionally across the UK, overnight stays may be necessary, with accommodation and expenses paid.

We're seeking someone with a strong level of technical qualification matched with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, who has a real passion for health and safety, an enthusiasm for excellent client service and a desire for success.

The skillset we are seeking is as follows:

TECHNICAL

Qualification must be to a minimum of the NEBOSH General Certificate (Level3) but with an agreement to achieve Level6 as soon as possible, either via the NVQ route or the NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety.
Experience in fire safety and fire risk assessment, with qualifications and prior training to support.
Several years' experience of working in health and safety (ideally in a consultancy capacity or across a range of different sectors).
Experience in delivering training or a Level3 teaching qualification.
Good level of competence with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel) and comfortable producing presentations and reports in a style and manner to suit the audience.

PERSONAL

A natural communicator, you'll be friendly, approachable and able to speak openly and confidently to a broad audience in order to deliver essential information with clarity and conviction.
Excellent written communication and report writing skills.
Exceptional organisation skills and the ability to organise and plan your own work and diary effectively.
The ability to persuade and influence others taking a consultative approach and promoting the benefits of good health and safety rather than selling 'scare stories').
A genuine determination for achieving success.
A desire to commit to ongoing professional development.
Ability to research, investigate and find answers in response to queries, and the delivery of health and safety advice in a relevant and pragmatic way for each client (you'll be a valued problemsolver).
Ability to work effectively with others (internally and externally) and build mutually productive relationships.

What you'll receive - rewards & benefits:
You'll thrive on being challenged in a role that provides balance, variety and reward in equal measure.

A generous annual salary, reflective of your qualifications, experience and commitment.
Pension contributions.
Annual 'Profit Share' bonus.
Car allowance.
Healthcare insurance.
The opportunity to participate in our proactive Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme, including fundraising for local projects and regular support for local food banks.
Fun company events and social opportunities.

Daily dressdown

It's about what you can do, not what you wear

Who you'll be working for?
A family-friendly company who place our staff at the very core of who we are and what we do. We love working with great people and, even more so, we love to support, nurture and develop.

We want our people to be at the top of their game, so we encourageregular training and development through online learning, peer mentoring and 'Lunch & Learn' sessions as well as via external training.

By championing training and development, we aim to get the best out of everyone we work with by going above and beyond.