Interim Health & Safety Advisor
Reference no: Gwent BL TCL 361235
Pay Rate: £20.23 per hour PAYE
37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 1 month (tbc)
City: CWMBRAN
NPPV Recruitment Vetting (RV)
Hybrid working
NB: Police Vacancy - only for candidates with a minimum of 5 years continuous UK address history. Please note that this vacancy is subject to a strict security vetting procedure.
Provide professional health and safety advice and support to all those in the employ of GWP.
The postholder will improve performance through the implementation of an appropriate health and safety management system and will drive a positive safety culture across the organisation as well as assisting in the timely delivery of associated underpinning health and safety management action plans and operational programmes.
Key responsibilities:
- Responsible for the effective implementation of GWP H&S management system in their region and achieving continuous improvement.
- Liaising with relevant internal and external stakeholders including suppliers, partner groups, and departments and enforcing authorities to represent GWP or the H&S team
- Responsible for undertaking and reviewing risk assessments and accident investigations as required, ensuring that corrective actions identified are implemented and significant remedial risks highlighted to senior management.
- Co-ordinating the planning and implementation of the H&S external benchmarking and internal audit and inspection programmes for their region.
- Acting as a system administrator for the Force E-Safety electronic information management system in their region to ensure the accurate inputting, recording and analysis of reported accidents, near misses and other H&S data
- Responsible in co-operation with the Estates department for the development, co-ordination, implementation and monitoring of emergency arrangements across GWP estate including Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs), force wide fire evacuation programme
- Undertaking research on Health and Safety matters and legislative changes, highlighting relevant information to the H&S Manager to assist in ensuring that GWP Health and Safety policies and procedures meet changing legislation, Force requirements, NPCC and professional best practice guidelines.
- Responsible for ensuring that H&S information relating to their region is available and current both on the GWP intranet site and locally
- Responsible for the provision, analysis and reporting of H&S management information to meet senior management requirements.
- Responsible for delivery of designated training/briefing sessions
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF
If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
RV Clearance
Qualifications:
- Minimum NEBOSH Certificate (NVQ Level 3) working toward NVQ Level 5/6.
- Level 1 Welsh essential (training will be given). Welsh language skills Level 2 and above are desirable.
Knowledge:
- Working knowledge of H&S reporting and management systems
Experience:
- 2 years of relevant experience in the field working for a large and diverse organisation.
- Working experience and knowledge of MS Office.
Skills & Abilities:
- Strong team member with good organisation and interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken word
- Ability to follow document control and quality review procedures
- Ability to quickly understand, adapt to and apply new procedures and systems
- Able to build lasting relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to raise the profile of the Health and Safety Team
- Ability to travel to and work across a multi-site environment at short notice to locations throughout the Force and on occasions throughout the UK
- Ability to produce non-standard letters, memos and reports for internal and external use
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