Health and Safety Advisor

We are seeking an experienced Health and Safety Advisor to join our established Health and Safety Team.

With a passion for health and safety you will use your knowledge and experience to assist colleagues to embed best practice ensuring relevant, legislation, standards and codes of practice are applied to specific working environments and activities.

You will play a critical role in supporting a positive safety culture, providing professional and trusted advice. Support continuous improvement by assisting colleagues with incident management, identifying areas for learning and development. Whilst conducting regular audits and providing written reports, you will be advising, and consulting with colleagues at all levels on hazard identification and risk management.

You should have demonstratable experience of health and safety practices within a medium to large sized organisation and hold a minimum of NEBOSH General Certificate qualification or equivalent. Background in housing is desirable by not essential.

You will also have:

• Significant experience providing advice on hazard identification and risk management
• A proven track record of conducting good quality site audits and written reports
• Knowledge and competence in incident investigations with good attention to detail
• The ability to manage diary commitments and prioritise your own workload
• Experience in researching, reviewing and developing health and safety policies and procedures

Within the role you will be required to visit our portfolio of locations to meet with colleagues and those that they work with, therefore travel is required. You will hold a full UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work purposes.

The role is hybrid; therefore, you can choose to work primarily from home, office hubs are also available in various locations with bookable desks for your use. Our main operating region covers Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and London.

We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:

• Flexible working – whilst some roles need to be carried out in a specific place at a specific time, where possible we encourage our colleagues to work to their own schedule at a location that suits them, their team and our business’ needs
• A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
• We invest in colleagues’ careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
• Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
• Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
• Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
• Enhanced leave
• We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives

To apply, please use information provided in the advert and role profile to let us know why you’d be good for the job. Please submit a copy of your up-to-date CV along with a supporting statement.

You will be required to undertake a basic DBS check if successful.

We create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and believe that creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work is the right thing to do.

Aster is not a sponsorship organisation and all candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it’s subsidiary brands.