HSE Incident and Investigation Specialist
| Posting date: | 04 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £48,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 January 2026 |
| Location: | Basingstoke, Hampshire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Sovereign Network Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7578 |
Summary
We have a great opportunity to join Sovereign Network Group (SNG) as a HSE Incident and Investigation Specialist within our People and Transformation team. You'll be based ideally from our Basingstoke office with flexibility around being based from our other locations. This role will combine office and home working to ensure a positive work/life balance.
It's an exciting time to join us as Sovereign have joined forces with Network Homes to form SNG (Sovereign Network Group). Together we provide over 84,000 homes and invest in communities across London and the South of England – our purpose being to provide quality affordable homes and places that people love for generations.
The Role
In this role, to provide specialist advice, guidance and support to the organisation in incident classification, reporting, investigation and trend analysis. To provide incident triage, and severity identification related to HSE incident management. To build organisational capability to learn from incidents.
Key Responsibilities
Triage all HSE incidents within the E-safe reporting system, assigning severities and ensuring accuracy in record detail
Coach and support incident investigators to continuously improve and achieve professional excellence in the quality of investigations and investigation reports
Lead the development and implementation of industry leading practices for investigating and learning from incidents, applying the core principles of human and organisational performance
Advance safety culture change by applying principles of just and fair culture to investigations
Lead the analysis of incidents and incident causation trends, producing reports from that data drawing out meaningful conclusions and clear recommendations
Ensure prompt escalation of LTI/RIDDOR/HiPo to HSE Managers and senior advisors for investigation
We are looking for someone who has
Experience in HSE roles
Deep understanding of Health & Safety regulations
Nebosh National General Certificate
Experience investigating complex health & safety incidents in construction related environment
NEBOSH Level 6 National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety
Benefits
We have some great benefits at SNG, including:
25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)
Chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package
3 additional Wellbeing days and 2 paid volunteering days
Generous matched pension scheme up to 12% and Life cover at 4x salary
Enhanced maternity/adoption pay
Enhanced paternity pay - 6 weeks full pay (after 26 weeks' service)
Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance and critical illness cover
Wellbeing discounts, including Gym Memberships and access to a 24/7 virtual GP service
We are committed to our Equality Diversity and Inclusion strategy and believe that you can truly be yourself at SNG.
This is a great opportunity to join the team as we progress through an exciting period of change at SNG. We pride ourselves on having a relaxed, supportive and forward-thinking culture, working collaboratively to achieve success.
It's an exciting time to join us as Sovereign have joined forces with Network Homes to form SNG (Sovereign Network Group). Together we provide over 84,000 homes and invest in communities across London and the South of England – our purpose being to provide quality affordable homes and places that people love for generations.
The Role
In this role, to provide specialist advice, guidance and support to the organisation in incident classification, reporting, investigation and trend analysis. To provide incident triage, and severity identification related to HSE incident management. To build organisational capability to learn from incidents.
Key Responsibilities
Triage all HSE incidents within the E-safe reporting system, assigning severities and ensuring accuracy in record detail
Coach and support incident investigators to continuously improve and achieve professional excellence in the quality of investigations and investigation reports
Lead the development and implementation of industry leading practices for investigating and learning from incidents, applying the core principles of human and organisational performance
Advance safety culture change by applying principles of just and fair culture to investigations
Lead the analysis of incidents and incident causation trends, producing reports from that data drawing out meaningful conclusions and clear recommendations
Ensure prompt escalation of LTI/RIDDOR/HiPo to HSE Managers and senior advisors for investigation
We are looking for someone who has
Experience in HSE roles
Deep understanding of Health & Safety regulations
Nebosh National General Certificate
Experience investigating complex health & safety incidents in construction related environment
NEBOSH Level 6 National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety
Benefits
We have some great benefits at SNG, including:
25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)
Chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package
3 additional Wellbeing days and 2 paid volunteering days
Generous matched pension scheme up to 12% and Life cover at 4x salary
Enhanced maternity/adoption pay
Enhanced paternity pay - 6 weeks full pay (after 26 weeks' service)
Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance and critical illness cover
Wellbeing discounts, including Gym Memberships and access to a 24/7 virtual GP service
We are committed to our Equality Diversity and Inclusion strategy and believe that you can truly be yourself at SNG.
This is a great opportunity to join the team as we progress through an exciting period of change at SNG. We pride ourselves on having a relaxed, supportive and forward-thinking culture, working collaboratively to achieve success.
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