Health & Safety Manager

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Who are Acis?

We are a welcoming and friendly organisation who own and manage more than 7,000 properties across the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber, helping thousands of people in our communities every single day. This includes homes for affordable rent, homes for students and homes for older people. We even develop new homes to help people get on the property ladder. In addition to this, we provide Student accommodation. We support over 4000 learners a year with everything from entry level qualifications, arts and wellbeing courses through to employability support to help people fulfil their potential. This is through Riverside Training, our employment and skills team, and CLIP, an education provider.

4 major things for you to consider...

Youre all about developing and maintaining a positive safety culture

You like to create and deliver H&S strategy

You understand how to talk to and deliver information to a wide ranging audience

You enjoy working in a supportive team
If that's you then we are well on the way! More below, but first...

Being part of the Acis team, you’ll get:

• Salary up to £48000 depending on experience
• Generous holiday entitlement – At least 25 days annual leave every year increasing one day a year to 30, plus bank holidays
• Enhanced pension contributions up to 10%
• The opportunity to undertake professional training, funded by us.
• Staff benefits with Paycare – A health and benefits scheme giving you support and contributions towards various health benefits such as counselling, eye tests, vaccinations and much more
• Benefits with Acis Perkz – a discount scheme giving you savings off hundreds of schemes including discounts on your coffee, weekly shop, days out and much more!
• Employee recognition scheme, where we celebrate and award our Stars within Acis, including gift vouchers
• Long service awards for our loyal employees
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced sick pay scheme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity scheme to support you and your family
• Employee Assistance Programme to give you confidential advice and support, when you need it
• Professional membership subscription to support your continuous professional development
• Death in service benefit

As Health & Safety Manager, a typical day might include:

• Developing and embedding a positive H&S culture throughout the organisation, through daily actions messaging and ways of working, to ensure that positive H&S awareness and responsibility is the way things are done here.
• Monitoring our compliance against corporate occupational health, safety and regulatory measures, to make sure we are achieving the highest levels of compliance and safety.
• Putting together our operational and strategic H&S KPI performance measures, monitoring our performance, and using that data to drive performance improvement areas and insights.
• Supporting the Health and Safety Advisor in the delivery, support, and effective onboarding of all new employees to embed our safety culture and ways of working
• Providing H&S leadership and information on the Health and Safety Steering Group - contributing and support employees to understand, improve on, and deliver a high positive H&S culture.
• Supporting line managers and senior managers in assessing, improving and delivering on consistently high standards; ensuring that employees and managers take active responsibility for their own safety and to achieve standards of excellence
• Overseeing of Accident, Incident and Near-Miss investigation and appropriate management of any RIDDOR cases, to ensure that suitable and sufficient corrective and preventative actions are taken and appropriately recorded
• Inspections and investigations – working with the Health and Safety Advisor, ensure that inspections and all incident investigations are conducted to a high level, with any corrective actions implemented in a timely manner.
• Working with members of the People Services team on building our wellbeing program to ensure that we are supporting our people with their wellbeing and thriving at Acis.
• Designing and delivering the occasional H&S compliance course to our people, or a toolbox talk to make sure essential learning and safety updates are in place for our people.
• Leading on getting us ready for, and then maintaining, our target for achieving ISO45001 accreditation

Some of the experience/skills we would like to see:

• IOSH member
• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent professional qualification in Health and Safety Management
• Excellent knowledge of Health and Safety Legislation and best practise
• Experience of leading Health and Safety, and managing Health & Safety Risk
• A passion for Health and Safety and the drive to progress
• Knowledge of health and safety regulations, quality management systems, and industry standards
• Excellent interpersonal skills with a positive and flexible approach
• The ability to influence and engage with all levels of the organisation
• Proficient use of IT systems, including word and excel

What will make you stand out from the crowd:

• Line management experience preferred
• NEBOSH Fire or alternative additional Health and Safety qualification
• Proven experience within the housing, construction, education or similar industry
• Previous involvement in wellbeing strategy / groups

As soon as a suitable candidate is found for this role we reserve the right to close the job advert ahead of the closing date, so please do not delay in submitting your application.

Acis are committed to equality and diversity, are a proud member of disability confident and welcome applications from any applicant who feel they hold the essential skills to fulfil the role. We recognise that people need flexibility in their role and we’re happy to discuss flexible working options with the successful candidate