Health and Safety Advisor

Health & Safety Advisor - London Area and South of UK Salary: From £42k+ (+£4000 Car Allowance + Mileage) - UK Driving Licence essential Job Type: Permanent, Fulltime Hours: 37.5 per week / Monday-Friday Location: Field Based Role (Covering our Nurseries in Surrey, Fleet, Camberley, Brighton and surrounding area's)   This role would suit a Qualified H+S professional with experience in Childcare, Education, Retail  

Purpose of Role: The Health and Safety Advisor is responsible for providing assurance to the company that its health, safety and other compliance policies, procedures and requirements are applied across operations and support functions consistently and effectively to mitigate risks and fulfil our Keeping Everyone Safe responsibilities. The Health and Safety Advisor will support the Health and Safety Manager (Operational) in general Keeping Everyone Safe work as directed, including but not limited to carrying out and managing investigations including accidents and incidents, providing dedicated support to a nominated Division, providing advice for general H&S enquiries across the business through the H & S inbox, supporting with DSE assessments, support with fire risk assessment outcomes, attending regional meetings and undertaking regular support visits at nurseries etc. The Health and Safety Advisor works in collaboration with the Health and Safety Auditors and appropriate key stakeholders to continuously learn from Keeping Everyone Safe audits and ensure that a culture of continuous improvement is embedded across nurseries and support offices. The Health and Safety Advisor will advise, support, coach and train nursery managers and other colleagues in Keeping Everyone Safe best practice.

What You'll be Doing:

• To support the H & S Manager (Operations) in the development and implementation of health and safety policies and procedures.
• To support the H & S Manager (Operations) in ensuring that key health and safety messages are communicated to nurseries and the support functions in a timely and effective manner i.e. KES Newsletter, attendance at cluster calls etc.
• To support nurseries in developing and maintaining robust risk assessments and health care plan assessments.
• To support nurseries and the Support Offices with fire safety enquiries and ensuring fire risk logs and fire risk assessments have been kept up to date and maintained.
• To support nurseries in embedding a positive health and safety culture.
• To be the main point of contact for all nurseries located in a nominated division supporting with all health and safety requests.
• Attending nurseries and support offices as part of regular support visits to monitor compliance, provide advice and guidance and to seek continuous improvement in health and safety compliance across the nominated division.
• Keeping Everyone Safe by continuously improving the practices, processes and behaviours that underpin a safety culture.
• Setting the highest standards of behaviour consistent with the HEART principles.
• Work with the relevant Health and Safety Auditor to ensure that actions arising from Keeping Everyone Safe audits are completed within an allocated time frame.
• Develop and maintain strong and positive relationships with key stakeholders working in collaboration and maintain a thorough knowledge of the business and regulatory environment.
• Support the H & S Manager (Operations) in complying with the Display Screen Equipment Regulations for all applicable support and nursery colleagues.
• Support company project activities with the aim to improve internal control measures and risk mitigation.
• Attend regional/divisional meetings to provide health and safety coaching/mentoring/advice and guidance.

Essential Experience:

• Demonstrable experience of having worked previously in a Health and Safety role, preferably as an Advisor.
• Proven track record in effectively undertaking the key tasks to the role, leading best practice and making a difference.
• Being able to work independently and prioritise.
• Sound knowledge of multiple areas of health and safety including fire safety, risk assessments, DSE and COSHH.

Preferred Experience

• Childcare/ Education sector
• Multi-site company
• Health and Safety training/train the trainer/coaching experience

Qualifications:

• NEBOSH General Certificate (Essential)
• GRAD IOSH or working towards (Desirable)
• Level 2 Food Safety Hygiene (Desirable)
• Fire Safety experience (Desirable)
• DSE Assessor (Desirable)
• Full clean driving licence

Personal Attributes

• Excellent influencer, change-maker and effective communicator (oral and in writing).
• Highly motivated and driven, achieving positive impact and meeting deadlines.
• Ability to take the initiative and find solutions.
• Ability to build trust and develop cohesive teams – strong empathy, clear expectations and fair-minded.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to liaise with staff at all levels.
• High energy and thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a calm approach and ‘can-do’ attitude.
• Encourages colleagues to realise their potential and empowers high performers.
• Due to the multi – site structure, an ability to travel within the UK, including occasional overnight stays; flexibility to work at home or from a regional office as required.

This role requires an Enhanced DBS check