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Senior Health & Safety Officer – Public Health

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	10 Awst 2024
Cyflog:	£19.81 yr awr
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	per hour PAYE
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	08 Medi 2024
Lleoliad:	NEWARK, Nottinghamshire, NG24 1BY
Cwmni:	Triumph Consultants Ltd
Math o swydd:	Dros dro
Cyfeirnod swydd:	Newark 5253214

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What's involved with this role:

Temporary Senior Health & Safety Officer – Public Health

Reference no: Newark 5253214

Pay rate: £19.81 per hour PAYE

Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours

This opening assignment is for 3 months

City: NEWARK, Nottinghamshire

A Senior Health & Safety Officer is required to proactively promote compliance in all aspects of health, safety and welfare at work and ensure the Council complies with appropriate legislation, regulations and professional standards in line with the Council’s own policies and procedures. To provide competent advice, support/guidance, training and delivering of an agreed proactive inspection/audit programme linked to initiatives, work programmes and SLAs as agreed with the Safety and Risk Manager. The main focus of this role will be in relation to delivering health and safety services within the Housing and Environmental Services Directorates.

Key responsibilities:

Ensure the day-to-day delivery of a health and safety service, therefore ensuring the Council’s health and safety responsibilities are met, enabling employees and managers to discharge their responsibilities and to implement the Council’s health and safety management arrangements/policies.
Ensure delivery of key H&S targets, initiatives and work programmes, as determined by the Safety and Risk Manager. Provide a health and safety service, in accordance with agreed SLA’s, to the council’s subsidiary companies.
Continually review the systems and processes employed in the delivery of the Council’s services and ensure that managers are aware of the latest health and safety legislation relevant to their areas of work. Update policies, codes of practice, guidance documents, reports and statistical data etc. on all health and safety matters.
Ensure the Council’s risk assessment arrangements are robust, and to undertake planned and ad-hoc audits, inspections and monitoring activities across the full breadth of the council’s operations and activities, including those carried out by third parties, to ensure that those risk assessments are being suitably communicated and implemented. This includes supporting and ensuring the continued day-to-day operation of the council’s risk assessment software system.
Ensure all reported accidents, work-related ill health and violent incidents are suitably investigated and reports produced identifying realistic and targeted actions required to prevent a re-occurrence. Ensure the notification of all incidents which falls within the definition of a “reportable accident”, as defined by Reporting of Injuries Diseases and Dangerous Occurrence Regulations, within prescribed timescales. Maintain statistical data of all reported incidents.
Where necessary, ensure liaison with the Council’s Insurance Officer regarding all potential employers and public liability claims.
Make cost effective and practical recommendations for improvements to processes, procedures and control measures to improve and enhance the management of health and safety risk.
Assess the suitability of contactors information and ensure the continued operation of the council’s contractor approval software system. Assess, by inspection of site, plant, offices, premises and systems of work including contractors’ work, the adequacy of health and safety standards and their compliance with legislation. Develop suitable action plans to address any deficiencies identified as part of the inspection regime.



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.

Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.

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:

Qualifications:

Full driving licence and access to own vehicle for work purposes.
NEBOSH General Certificate in occupational health and safety and /or NEBOSH Construction Certificate.
IOSH Technical Membership Grade desirable.
Fire Safety qualification desirable.
RPE Face Fit Testing desirable.



Experience:

Experience in providing safety support and advice in a functionally diverse organisation.
Experience of working in a safety role within a construction and/or housing function.
Experience of assessing risk and recommending practical responses and control measures, and can develop and undertake health and safety audits, inspections and monitoring activities.
Experience of asbestos management within commercial and residential settings.
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.



Knowledge:

A good understanding of Health and safety in housing trades.
A working knowledge and understanding of the implications and practical application of the Construction, design and management regulations.
A working knowledge of reviewing and advising on fire safety risk assessments.
Significant knowledge of safety compliance within buildings, both commercial and domestic.



Skills & Abilities:

Ability to use IT packages including email, diary management, word processing, spreadsheets and internet.
Able to produce written reports.
Ability to liaise with key partners and stakeholders.
Ability to develop and deliver a range of training initiatives across a broad range of health and safety topics.
Able to facilitate local level meetings.
Ability to use Risk assessment software packages desirable.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
Strong organisational and prioritisation skills.
Ability to deliver projects to strict deadlines.



***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.

Full Driving licence, access to a vehicle or access to means of mobility support.

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Job Ref: Newark 5253214


Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates.

We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.

Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs.

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.