Health And Safety Assistant

Health and Safety Assistant - Fixed term - (minimum 6 months)

Benefits:
Salary: £14,042 - £16,096 per annum (FTE £25,979 - £29,777) -
Grade 3
Hours: Part Time - 20 hours per week (months)
Location – Service Headquarters, Calcot, Reading
Excellent annual leave allowance of 25 days (pro-rata), flexible working, onsite gym, parking facilities and a Local Government Pension Scheme are available

Working within the Health and Safety Team, you will be responsible for providing administrative support to the team and those that we support. The role offers a great opportunity to make a difference in an evolving public service environment and in an organisation that offers flexible working arrangements so that our teams can achieve a good work life balance, and that invests in continuing development. A range of post-appointment training will be provided as appropriate.

About you:
We are seeking a motivated and engaging individual for the position of Health and Safety Assistant.
You enjoy working with others, have a can-do approach, and are able to build and maintain positive and productive working relationships with others.

The key focus of this role is:

• Take responsibility for specified existing established Health and Safety processes
• Ensure the maintenance of accurate and reliable data in relation to Health and Safety, entering and providing information as appropriate in accordance with General Data Protection Regulations.
• Undertake systems based work through data entry, data interrogation and data assurance
• Contribute to the maintenance and development of Health and Safety processes including continuous improvement
• Meet all service levels targets for Health and Safety processing activity and ensuring tasks are completed accurately
• Document management including the maintenance of filing systems, policies and procedures

Key role requirements (knowledge, skills and experience):

• Good general education (equivalent of 5 GCSE passes level C /4 or above – must contain English Language and Mathematics)
• Excellent inter-personal skills
• Excellent self-management, planning and organisational skills
• Excellent IT skills
• Able to work effectively as part of a team
• Strong attention to detail
• Previous administration experience

Application and selection process

The successful candidate will demonstrate and promote behaviours in line with the Job Profile/Person Specification and our Behaviour Competency Framework.

The Behavioural Competency Framework allows us to easily identify the behaviours that drive successful performance and enables us to deliver an effective service. The behaviours detailed within the job profile will be assessed throughout the selection process.

Appointment is conditional upon undertaking a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
Rechecks will be required in line with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy.

Closing date for applications is 09:00 hours 31 January 2024

It is anticipated that the interview process will run week commencing 13 February 2024

The interview process will include a data entry assessment.

Anticipated start date: March 2024

Please note that is your personal responsibility to check whether by applying / accepting this position it would result in any Annual Allowance implications. A breach in the Annual Allowance threshold could result in a Tax charge.