Head of Health and Safety

Key responsibilities for the Head of Health and Safety

• Provide strategic leadership and operational oversight of health and safety, environmental management and sustainability.
• Ensure appropriate management systems, policies and procedures are developed, implemented, maintained and regularly reviewed.
• Ensure compliance with relevant health and safety legislation, environmental regulations and statutory obligations.
• Oversee the identification and management of significant hazards, ensuring appropriate risk assessments are completed and reviewed.
• Ensure workplace safety inspections are undertaken at least annually, with appropriate action taken to address identified risks and areas for improvement.
• Lead the effective management, investigation and reporting of incidents, ensuring lessons learned are identified and implemented.
• Support organisational resilience through effective emergency preparedness, business continuity and resilience planning.
• Champion environmental responsibility and sustainability, embedding good practice across organisational operations.

Leadership and people management

The postholder will be responsible for ensuring that employees within their area of responsibility receive appropriate guidance, training and development to carry out their duties safely and effectively.

They will promote a culture of continuous learning, accountability and professional development, supporting colleagues to achieve their objectives while maintaining high standards of performance, service delivery and wellbeing.

Key areas of Knowledge & Experience

• Demonstrable experience of successful partnership and multi-agency working
• Experience of applying risk management in setting strategy and in identifying and managing principal risks to achievement of objectives
• Experience of successful project management and delivering services to set standards
• Succesful track record of communicating with stakeholders and partners

Qualifications

• Leadership/management qualification and/or significant leadership/management experience
• NEBOSH certification or willingness to work towards.
• Chartered member of IOSH