Health & Safety Advisor

Full Job Description

A bit about the role:

As a Health & Safety Advisor, some of the key results for the role include:

Departmental Responsibilities:

• To develop and maintain excellent relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support safe employment and services.
• To assess customers’ needs to ensure effective service delivery.
• To advise and support customers in resolving their queries and issues, ensuring that their expectations are managed and proactive solutions are identified.
• To maintain up to date health and safety systems and records which facilitate the accurate reporting of key performance information.
• To ensure that all policies and procedures are adhered to so that consistent and standard practice is achieved across the organisation.

Role Responsibilities:

• To keep up to date with current health and safety issues, new regulations and legislation.
• To provide proactive, timely, accurate and professional health and safety advice and guidance to customers and offer proactive solutions for their issues.
• Support managers and employees in completing operational risk assessments and carry out specialist and organisational risk assessments as required.
• Assist managers in identifying health and safety training needs and as appropriate facilitate the delivery of health and safety training directly or indirectly.
• In partnership with managers and employees commission or carry out health and safety audits and safety inspections and support them in responding to recommendations.
• Investigate work place accidents and incidents and report on findings and recommendations.
• Assist in the development of health and safety policies and procedures and ensure that they remain up to date and compliant with current legislation, regulations and industry best practise and embedded across the organisation.
• Work in partnership with the HR team to support the health and wellbeing of employees.
• Provide verbal or written health and safety briefings for managers and employees about current or newly arising issues.
• Manage the lone worker monitoring system.
• Attend and participate in internal and external health and safety group meetings.
• Adhere to Peabody Health and Safety policies and procedures to ensure, as far as is practicable, your own safety and that of others in the workplace. There may be a requirement to undertake specific Health and Safety roles such as Fire Warden or First Aider.

This role will require a Basic DBS check, Driving licence and access to vehicle for work.

A bit about us:

Peabody are one of the largest housing associations in the UK, and we’ll be even bigger when our merger with Catalyst is complete in April 2023. Our mission is to help people flourish and an important part of this is to ensure that our organisation reflects the wider communities we serve. We want to attract recruit and retain a diverse, inclusive and creative workforce to give us the best opportunity to meet the diverse needs of our residents and customers.

Here just a few of the benefits for working at Peabody:

• Flexible and hybrid working
• 30 days’ annual holiday plus bank holidays

• Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates
• Two additional paid volunteering days each year
• Flexible benefits scheme, including family friendly benefits and access to a discount portal

Are you ready to apply?

To be considered for the role of Health & Safety Advisor, please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button and submit both your CV and a bit about why we should consider you for the role.