Health & Safety Manager

Ref: H&SZO
Location: Hampshire (SO43)
Hybrid: Whilst we work in a hybrid role, with 50% of the time in the office/other locations, you would also need to be able to respond to urgent reactive matters during the rest of the working week.
Hours: The role is full time 37 hours per week (min 30 hours would be considered for an exceptional candidate).
Pay: £48,731 per annum
Duration: 3 Month initial contract with the possibility for extension beyond this

Duties
You will be responsible for the provision and updating of the clients overarching health and safety policies and for reviewing systems in place to ensure that all service areas are monitoring and reporting on health and safety and that the client is compliant with legal requirements.

Reporting to the Executive Management team any areas of concern, serious breaches or significant changes to legislation that could impact on the Client

The leadership and management of the corporate health and safety team. Duties include recruitment, motivating staff, appraisals, performance and workload monitoring, one to one meetings and training programmed to ensure a comprehensive, efficient and effective high quality service.

To prepare the annual service plan, determining and reviewing objectives and ensuring monitoring of compliance with key performance indicators in order to effectively discharge the Clients statutory duties.

To be the Clients professional, technical and policy lead on corporate health and safety matters, providing expert advice to managers on health and safety matters.

To provide advice to Senior Management, Members and Committees on health and safety matters to ensure all are aware of their statutory obligations and where the Client may be exposed to risk.

To identify the need for and produce policies which may involve the preparation of reports and their presentation to EMT, or Client committees.

Co-ordinate the provision and development of operational frameworks for implementation of corporate health and safety policies and procedures including risk assessments, health and safety audits, safe operating procedures and emergency procedures.

To monitor and review accident, near miss and incident reports and advise on any action required/carry out further investigation as needed. Maintain a corporate database and periodically produce accident statistics and other data to all services, EMT, Members and the HSE as appropriate with support from the Service Manager.

Ensure systems are in place for routine auditing, monitoring and safety inspections across all services. Ensure that processes are in place to capture and implement remedial actions.

Advise on the preparation of health and safety expenditure plan bids for individual service areas in consultation with service managers.

To ensure that health and safety arrangements across all services are delivered in a consistent and coordinated manner.


Person Specification

• A NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety (level 6) or equivalent.
• Extensive experience in health and safety and substantial experience of managing teams.
• Certified Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) CertIOSH
• A good understanding of local government, the democratic process and legal practices relating to health and safety.
• Demonstrate structured management training. and preferably hold a formal qualification.
• Experience of managing data (including financial) and IT literate.
• High level skills in strategic planning, problem solving, analysis and interpretation.
• Ability to lead, inspire and motivate colleagues and build productive relationships with external organisations and stakeholders.
• A current full driving licence