Health, Safety & Fire Advisor
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 28 Mai 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £33,201.00 - £37,161 |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 25 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | East of England |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | St John Ambulance |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 279227JCP |
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Health, Safety & Fire Advisor
Full time (35 hours pw)
Please note you will be required to cover a wide geographical area in the East of England- Northumbria, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Essex.
Our offer to you
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive:
Competitive salary and pension scheme
33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years
Hybrid, Flexible working
Cycle to work scheme
Electric Vehicle Scheme
Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
Discounts – you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping
About Us
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,200 employees and over 29500 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning. As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.
St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response and Night Time Economy) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes). There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers.
Job Summary
Keeping patients and St John People safe is the number one priority for St John Ambulance (SJA). Health Safety and Fire Advisor is a member of the Health and Safety team, reporting to the Head of Health and Safety.
The purpose of the role is to engender a positive safety culture through active collaboration and partnering within their specific area of responsibility. Raising the profile of health and safety with business aligned support, offering a proactive, solutions focussed approach, enabling colleagues to understand and manage health and safety successfully, whilst maintaining legal compliance based on risk profile.
Maintaining a proportionate approach to risk, acting as the competent advisor and key interface for the designated service area, whilst remaining a key part of the overall health and safety team, collaborating with colleagues and peers to create a harmonious and standardised team approach.
Required Knowledge, Skills & Experience
NEBOSH general certificate or equivalent Level 3 qualification
Technical Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (TechIOSH)
Full UK driving licence
Significant experienced gained within a similar role within a multi-site organisation
Experience of creating and managing a risk profile
Experience of accident investigation to include close out, lessons learnt and monitoring of trends
Experience of conducting risk assessments, inspections, incident investigations and monitoring of legal compliance
About the Role
Act as the competent person and health, safety and fire interface, providing proportionate business aligned competent health and safety support, based on the risk profile of the designated service area, offering solutions for reduction of risk.
Creation of a risk profile for the designated service area, based on knowledge of the activity undertaken, relevant statutory duties, compliance, and best practice.
Attend regular meetings as agreed and appropriate to act as advisor for activity within the service area
Educate, train, guide and support managers and colleagues to reduce risk, supporting the risk assessment process.
Support managers to investigate incidents, providing expertise in legislative requirements, in particular Reporting of Incidents, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) and to submit reports as required within a timely manner.
Liaise with Human Resources on lost time incidents (RIDDOR Incidents) and report as appropriate.
Monitor H&S incidents, accidents, near miss events and positive observations to provide accurate statistical data on a monthly basis
Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)
To find out more about us visit www.sja.org.uk or follow us on our socials
If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here: Click here
For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply please apply below
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.
Please note: This role may be subject to a DBS check
Full time (35 hours pw)
Please note you will be required to cover a wide geographical area in the East of England- Northumbria, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Essex.
Our offer to you
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive:
Competitive salary and pension scheme
33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years
Hybrid, Flexible working
Cycle to work scheme
Electric Vehicle Scheme
Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
Discounts – you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping
About Us
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,200 employees and over 29500 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning. As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.
St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response and Night Time Economy) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes). There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers.
Job Summary
Keeping patients and St John People safe is the number one priority for St John Ambulance (SJA). Health Safety and Fire Advisor is a member of the Health and Safety team, reporting to the Head of Health and Safety.
The purpose of the role is to engender a positive safety culture through active collaboration and partnering within their specific area of responsibility. Raising the profile of health and safety with business aligned support, offering a proactive, solutions focussed approach, enabling colleagues to understand and manage health and safety successfully, whilst maintaining legal compliance based on risk profile.
Maintaining a proportionate approach to risk, acting as the competent advisor and key interface for the designated service area, whilst remaining a key part of the overall health and safety team, collaborating with colleagues and peers to create a harmonious and standardised team approach.
Required Knowledge, Skills & Experience
NEBOSH general certificate or equivalent Level 3 qualification
Technical Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (TechIOSH)
Full UK driving licence
Significant experienced gained within a similar role within a multi-site organisation
Experience of creating and managing a risk profile
Experience of accident investigation to include close out, lessons learnt and monitoring of trends
Experience of conducting risk assessments, inspections, incident investigations and monitoring of legal compliance
About the Role
Act as the competent person and health, safety and fire interface, providing proportionate business aligned competent health and safety support, based on the risk profile of the designated service area, offering solutions for reduction of risk.
Creation of a risk profile for the designated service area, based on knowledge of the activity undertaken, relevant statutory duties, compliance, and best practice.
Attend regular meetings as agreed and appropriate to act as advisor for activity within the service area
Educate, train, guide and support managers and colleagues to reduce risk, supporting the risk assessment process.
Support managers to investigate incidents, providing expertise in legislative requirements, in particular Reporting of Incidents, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) and to submit reports as required within a timely manner.
Liaise with Human Resources on lost time incidents (RIDDOR Incidents) and report as appropriate.
Monitor H&S incidents, accidents, near miss events and positive observations to provide accurate statistical data on a monthly basis
Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)
To find out more about us visit www.sja.org.uk or follow us on our socials
If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here: Click here
For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply please apply below
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.
Please note: This role may be subject to a DBS check