Senior Health Safety Advisor

 Reed Property and Construction are working with a government organisation looking to recruit a Health and Safety Manager.
Joining as part of the small Health and Safety Team.
What will you be doing?
• On a daily basis you will be actively supporting all our departments by providing specialist health and safety advise and support with development of Corporate Policy and guidance .
• Travelling to various office locations and sites within the Bristol and surrounding area you will be supporting internal management to implement policy and to manage risk where policy or standards may require interpretation.
• Within the service, you will develop monitoring systems and undertake health & safety planned audits of service areas, to monitor risk management and statutory compliance and providing reports to the Corporate Health & Safety Manager.
• You will liaise with external bodies, such as enforcement agencies such as the HSE and be communicating with our internal teams and departments of the council, employee representatives, Trade Union representatives, elected members and advising health & safety committees.
The successful candidate
• It is essential that you must have good knowledge of UK health & safety legislation and sufficient practical experience in a health and Safety Advisory role.
• You must have a NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent qualification (e.g NVQ6 Occupational Health & Safety) and be a Chartered Member of IOSH or working towards chartership including participation in CPD.
• It is critical that you have experience in a health & Safety Advisory role within a large organisation with a broad range of service activities, such as social care, civil construction, horticultural services, facility services, diverse office accommodation, and customer facing services.
• You will require experience in statistical analysis, report writing and delivering effective presentations to Health & Safety Consultative Committee meetings.
• For the role you must have well-developed risk assessment, auditing, inspection, report writing and investigation skills
This role will offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
• The client are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
• As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities

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