Exciting Opportunities: Corporate Health and Safety Advisor

Location: Central Bedfordshire

Overview:

As part of the Public Protection and Transport service, Corporate Health and Safety provides the council's internal services, work programmes and maintained schools with proportionate and 'sensible risk' based H&S advice, guidance and support. This helps to keep staff and customers safe and ensures that the council may fulfil its H&S legal duties.

Job Summary:

• Essential health and safety technical skills and experience for this appointment.
• Providing accurate and proportionate health and safety advice and guidance to people at all levels.
• Managing incident reporting systems and conducting accident and incident enquiries and investigations.
• Developing health and safety risk assessments and safe systems of work and method statements (on a broad range of subjects).
• Creating, reviewing and updating health and safety guidance and tools suitable for a non-technical audience (on a broad range of subjects).
• Designing and delivering workshops, discussion groups and training on health and safety matters.
• Knowledge and application of Fire Risks assessments and other property-related assessments.

Your Role

• You will need a minimum of a NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational H&S or

equivalent (Advisor) and/or a Degree level health and safety qualification (Manager).

• Deliver H&S advice and support to a diverse range of services and risk areas, including conducting audits, inspections and incident investigations.
• Communicate H&S in a clear, non-technical and compelling way through documented guidance and tools, training, risk assessments, reports, briefings and direct advice.
• Respond promptly to new and unexpected situations, using risk assessed judgements to prioritise and plan.
• Monitor, maintain, manage and deliver information in third party software and office applications.

Work Hours

• Standard Monday to Friday with flexibility (37 hour per week)
• Hybrid working

Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Eden Brown is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.