Health And Safety Manager

Health and Safety Manager (H&S)

£52,000 per annum

Long Stratton, Norwich, Norfolk

Permanent, Full Time

Our client has an exceptional opportunity for a Health & Safety Manager to join them to lead and supervise their Health & Safety, and Fire Safety team. By setting the strategic direction for their health, safety and wellbeing matters you will promote practices to safeguard the Health and Safety of workers, customers, contractors, partners and visitors. Assist with the delivery of their aims through focused and outcome targeted Health and Safety plans and processes, along with developing, maintaining and improving the Health and Safety management system.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide competent advice and guidance regarding health, safety and well-being to managers and employees.

• Develop, review, and publish health, safety and well-being policies and associated documents, and ensure they remain valid and current.

• Promote compliance with all relevant legislation, guidance, and best practice.

• Identify (safety) training needs and ensure that these needs are met through the most appropriate resources.

• Develop and co-ordinate risk assessments and make recommendations to effectively mitigate unacceptable risk.

• Lead accident investigation, and investigate other incidents, near misses and reports of unsafe practices and advise on suitable remedial actions.

• Maintain a programme of safety inspections, site safety audits and fire risk assessments and take remedial actions where necessary to reduce risk to an acceptable level.

Please see the full list of responsibilities on the Role Profile attached.

Their ideal candidate will have:

• Experience in leading on Health and Safety in Small & Medium Enterprises and/or Social Housing Environment.

• Experience in leading on fire safety in residential dwellings.

• Previous / relevant experience of managing direct reports / a team.

• A good understanding and previous practical application of the RRO 2005, the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 would be advantageous.

• Ability to maintain and develop relationships with colleagues and customers to provide health & safety advice and training.

• Ability to work as part of a team and also able to work independently without the need for close supervision.

• Excellent time management skills, including an ability to prioritise workload and meet agreed deadlines.

• Possess a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.

• Possess excellent influencing and persuasion skills.

• Ability to develop and deliver solutions to problems that are sensible, practical and proportionate to the risk.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, possessing the ability to liaise with various audiences both in writing and verbally.

• Good IT skills to include Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams.

Recognised qualifications:

• NEBOSH Level 6 Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety Management or NVQ Level 6 Diploma in Health & Safety.

• Chartered Member of IOSH (CMIOSH) or Certified Member of IOSH (CertIOSH) (formerly GradIOSH) or working towards CMIOSH.

• Chartered Member of CIH Level 5 (desirable).

The Company

Our client is a housing association based in Norfolk providing quality homes and services to people across the county and in Suffolk.

They manage over 6,000 homes including affordable homes for those in housing need who cannot afford to rent or buy in the open market.

They offer specialist homes for older and vulnerable adults and are committed to providing new homes to help solve the housing crisis.

They have a huge commitment to their employees. They want the team to be happy, empowered, motivated and feel proud to be part of their community. They know by having great people they can do a great job for their tenants. They trust their staff to do the right thing and they are looking for people whose values are aligned with theirs (PACE - Professional, Accountable, Collaborative and Evolving).

You will have the freedom to learn and grow. They are passionate about investing in their people, providing them with the skills they need now, and for their future aspirations. They do this by offering a blend of learning opportunities, including their innovative e-learning platform where learning is self-directed allowing people to learn what they want, when they want to.

They work with and support our people to work in an agile way to ensure that have the right work/life balance. They have the choice to work in the office, work from home, coffee shop, park or a combination of all. They have recently refurbished their offices to encourage collaborative, agile working.

As an inclusive employer, they are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and have a zero tolerance policy relating to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

They aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join their Community.