Health And Safety Manager

Health and Safety Manager (H&S) 

£52,000 per annum 

Long Stratton, Norwich, Norfolk 

Permanent, Full Time  

We have an exceptional opportunity for a Health & Safety Manager to join Saffron to lead and supervise our Health & Safety, and Fire Safety team.   

By setting the strategic direction for health, safety and wellbeing matters for Saffron you will promote practices to safeguard the Health and Safety of workers, customers, contractors, partners and visitors.  Assist with the delivery of Saffron’s aims through focused and outcome targeted Health and Safety plans and processes, along with developing, maintaining and improving the Health and Safety management system for Saffron. 

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.  

Our 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 

We are a housing association based in Norfolk providing quality homes and services to people across the county and in Suffolk. 

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

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

At Saffron 

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

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

We 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. We have recently refurbished our offices to encourage collaborative, agile working. 

As an inclusive employer, we 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. 

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