Team: Corporate Health and Safety Team

Job Family: Enabling - CBG11

Salary: £38,479 to £41,632 per annum pro rata

Hours: 37 hours per week

Location: You will be expected to attend a CBC office location as often as needed to carry out your role, which will be no less than once per month.

Contract Type: Hybrid - Permanent

About the role:

Here in the Corporate Health and Safety Team, we give guidance on occupational health and safety to managers and staff across the council and in maintained schools. By keeping our workforce safe and well, we’re making sure they can give our residents 100%. As a Corporate Health and Safety Advisor, you’ll be at the heart of our work, helping our managers and head teachers to minimise risks to their teams. With the chance to make a difference to our employees – and therefore the 300,000-strong community they serve – you can find your greatness and do something amazing for our region.

As part of a small, supportive, and friendly team, you’ll provide proportionate and expert advice on all aspects of health and safety in our services, which span a multitude of business sectors. You’ll have extensive experience of:

•          Providing health and safety support to manage the risks faced in a wide range of services and business functions.

•          Providing expert, proportionate, and tailored health and safety advice to managers, staff and services requiring assistance.

•          Monitoring accident/incident reports and carrying out both routine and more complex incident investigations.

•          Creating, reviewing, and updating health and safety guidance, policies, and tools to help managers and staff deliver safe and healthy services.

•          Creating and delivering health and safety training sessions, briefings, and workshops.

•          Creating and reviewing health and safety risk assessments and safe systems of work.

•          Carrying out health and safety audits and inspections, providing proportionate and prioritised recommendations for actions required.

•          Co-ordinating, managing, and leading case work, projects, programmes, and risk management schemes.

•          Dealing with people at all levels and across multiple sectors.

To join us, you’ll also need:

•          A minimum of a NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety (or equivalent level 3 health and safety qualification); and

•          A full, valid driving licence and access to your own vehicle, as the role will involve conducting visits across the county, sometimes at short notice.

As a researcher, listener, author and explainer, you’ll know how to communicate health and safety in a non-technical, comprehensible and compelling way. A fantastic people person with a friendly and consultative approach, you’ll influence schools and council staff to act on your guidance. If this sounds like you, and you’re IT literate and highly organised, you’ll be able to play a big part in keeping our people safe and well. Be it schools or social care, waste or transport, elections or leisure and countryside, you’ll enjoy a varied role where no two days are the same and the opportunity to expand your knowledge and skills is ongoing.

Please note that shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a pre-interview activity, to be submitted by email prior to the interview / selection tests date.

Our Offer

We have several rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our Rewards and Benefits page.

Our aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer.  We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process.

You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies in this Recruitment Pack.

Our Competency Framework and Qualification Guidance are to be read in conjunction with our Recruitment Pack.

For an informal discussion about this position, please contact:

Lee Butler, Corporate Health, and Safety Manager at lee.butler@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or call 0300 300 6793.

Except for Monday 9th September and Monday 16th to Friday 20th September, during which please contact: Terry Bowers, Corporate Health and Safety Advisor at terry.bowers@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or call 0300 300 4499.

To maintain a fair and consistent approach for applicants, it is Central Bedfordshire Council's policy to only consider applications made via our online application system and we therefore thank you for not submitting your application offline.

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Closing Date: 22nd September 2024

Interview Date: Panel interview and selection test on 3rd or 4th October 2024

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