Health And Safety People Safety Team Member

DWP’s People Safety team supports the Department’s aim in ensuring that the business remains compliant to legislative changes and its policies and processes remain centred around ensuring the Health and Safety of its people, customers and partners at all times

The team has a wide and diverse range of responsibilities;

• Support in the development of policy and strategy
• Provide Health and Safety business partnering across DWP,
• Deliver training and awareness,
• Conduct specialist audit, monitor performance, and manage the complex plans that enable strategic delivery of DWPs Safety Management Systems.
• Provide essential communication and publication of key matters that impact the immediate team and wider DWP.
• Drive communications that support the operational delivery of the DWP Health and Safety Strategy.

• Proactively leading on activities which include strategic reporting, portfolio management and governance across People Safety. Maintain robust governance processes, and services to support effective senior level decision making across the People Safety team.
• Working at pace analysing diverse and complex information whilst utilising innovative and best practice approaches to meet with challenging and demanding timescales.
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship building skills, based on mutual respect and trust with the ability to constructively and effectively challenge where needed.
• Ensuring the provision of a high-quality briefing service for and beyond the People Safety team, that supports our objectives and strategic enablers.
  
• Developing skills and learning to support the team in meeting the demand for high quality and timely responses to Parliamentary Questions and Freedom of Information requests
  
• Building strong relationships and forming alliances with internal and external specialists and communities to scan for emerging trends, innovation, and current best practice.