Location: Head office in Bromborough, Wirral, plus local services in Wirral and West Cheshire
Salary: £36,577 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Contract: Full-time, permanent
Overview of the role…
We are seeking an experienced Health & Safety Advisor to promote a safe working environment for our people. The successful candidate will act as a trusted H&S advisor to the charity, conducting robust inspections across all our estates and facilities, and adopting a culture for learning through corrective action planning.
This is a pivotal position ensuring compliance is fostered in all forms of health and safety, approved codes of practice and local procedures. The successful candidate will be focussed on embedding a culture of service excellence and continuous improvement alongside the Director of Estates & Facilities.
The postholder will promote a safety culture whilst ensuring audit compliance, elevating standards and appropriate training to staff. They will be responsible for working with managers to establish and maintain safe systems of working for colleagues and the People We Support.
Autism Together is a charity which offers support to autistic individuals and those with learning disabilities. We have a varied estates portfolio covering Residential, Supported Living and Day Service environments, to create pathways for the People We Support to ensure they live their best lives.
What you will be doing…
- Advise on all aspects of health, safety, and wellbeing issues, as they pertain to all Autism Together operations.
- Encourage and implement the continual development and improvement of a proactive health and safety culture.
- Develop, promote, monitor and review health and safety policies, procedures, and safe systems.
- Develop and complete ongoing audit and inspections to ensure compliance with internal, statutory and professional requirements.
- Investigate and report on accidents, incidents and near misses, ensuring full compliance with RIDDOR reporting.
- Complete accident investigation on sites when required, record and liaise with any external investigating agencies as required.
- Ensure routine health and safety activities and checks are carried out, eg review risk assessments, carry out fire inspections and drills.
Join Autism Together and expect:
- Excellent rates of pay.
- Free DBS check.
- Fully paid induction training from our award-winning Learning Culture Team.
- Buy back additional annual leave.
- Discounts for high street stores and eligibility for Blue Light Card benefit.
- Pension Scheme.
- Occupational sick pay scheme.
- Employee Assistant Programme (EAP) and occupational health.
- Early overtime pay scheme.
- Annual staff awards celebrating staff achievements.
- Generous refer a friend scheme.
- Ongoing professional career progression.
- Opportunities to obtain a professionally-recognised qualification and complete an apprenticeship relevant to the role.
- Attendance incentive draws.
- Employee of the month.
- Staff suggestion scheme.
Hours of work…
The postholder’s substantive work location will be our head office in Bromborough, Wirral. However, it will be an essential requirement for the postholder to visit other work sites.
This is a permanent role, on full-time hours, Monday to Friday. We do, however, offer the opportunity for flexible working practices and exceptional development opportunities for the right candidate.
What we are looking for:
Our ideal candidate will be able to work under their own initiative, within structured timescales and be an expert in health and safety.
The postholder must possess a high-quality approach to work, be customer focused, hold or be working towards a specific Level 3 Health & Safety qualification – such as the NEBOSH certificate.
In return, we can offer an excellent remuneration package, along with the opportunity to make a genuine difference to our workforce and the lives of the people we support.
If you are passionate about health and safety and are seeking to work with a forward-thinking charity, then we look forward to hearing from you.
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If you have any queries, give our friendly Recruitment Team a call on 0151 482 3121 (during office hours).
To apply online for this position, just click here.
Please note – all offers of employment are subject to the satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks, including a DBS check.
To recruiters – we are not looking for agency support to help appoint to this post.
