Senior Work Psychologist

Senior Work Psychologist Location: Buxton, Derbyshire About Us The Health and Safety Executive is Britain’s national regulator for workplace health and safety. We’re dedicated to protecting people and places, ensuring everyone can lead safer and healthier lives at work. We are now looking for a Senior Work Psychologist to join our Risk and Human Factors Group in Buxton on a full-time, permanent basis. Flexible working, job share and part-time hours are also available. The Benefits - Salary of £40,788 - £46,783 per annum - 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays and Civil Service privilege leave - Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27.1% - Flexible working options - Family-friendly policies and working hours - Competitive parental leave benefits - Carer-friendly policies to help create a supportive working culture - Learning and development tailored to your role This is an exciting opportunity for a chartered occupational psychologist to advance their career with our ground-breaking organisation. You will have the chance to join a vibrant team, delivering transformative training and consultancy to support occupational mental health and wellbeing. Your expertise will ensure that our country remains one of the safest to work in. The Role As a Senior Work Psychologist, you will work alongside a team of experts to educate others on mental wellbeing in the workplace. Following a period of supported on-boarding, you will lead technical contributions to projects related to workplace stress, mental health and safety leadership. Demonstrating high standards in the application of research methods, you will constructively challenge existing approaches and lead technical contributions to support regulatory colleagues. You will also act as an expert witness during prosecutions. Additionally, you will provide expert advice to stakeholders on key workplace issues, including: - The management of work-related stress and mental health - Safety leadership - Job design - The design of work environments - Organisational development and change About You To be considered as a Senior Work Psychologist, you will need: - To be a registered Occupational Psychologist with the HCPC, or be a Chartered member of the BPS or be able to show evidence of working towards Chartership and/or Membership - Strong skills in psychology and human-factors-related research methods, including some practical experience of facilitating focus groups and interviews in different settings - Experience of designing, planning and delivering high quality projects safely to time and cost - Experience of writing clear, concise reports - The willingness to undertake public speaking engagements - The completion of an MSc (or equivalent) or higher in occupational psychology, or equivalent experience - A full, valid driving licence The closing date for this role is the 1st March 2024. Webrecruit and the Health and Safety Executive are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be. So, if you’re ready to make a positive impact on occupational safety as a Senior Work Psychologist, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.