Lab Manager

3 weeks ago


Morpeth Northumberland, United Kingdom Concept Resources Full time

Act as the Competent Person on behalf of the Council and lead professional on all health and Safety matters, including setting the strategic

direction and related objectives for Health and Safety for the Council, providing leadership to the team and positively influence and embed the Health and Safety

Ensuring legal compliance with all Health and Safety related legislation and codes of practice. Health and Safety Advisory Service to the Council, ensuring effective management systems, audit and inspection mechanisms are in place to achieve Health and

Safety improvements and provide compliance assurance to the Council. Corporate Health and Safety

• Developing and ensuring demonstrable adherence to the Health and Safety Policy

• Ensuring all Council Directorates have the processes and procedures in place to deliver health and safety compliant services

• Ensuring third party suppliers and joint venture companies delivering on behalf of the Council deliver services that are compliant with Health and Safety

Staff Direct responsibility for a corporate team of Health and Safety professionals, with wider indirect responsibility for ensuring the health and

safety of all staff, Elected Members, Executive Directors, Directors and Heads of Service, including training requirements.

Physical Responsible for developing, managing and maintaining Council wide Health and Safety related management systems to be used by all

Council services, to include the collection, maintenance and use of significant bodies of corporate data.

Work with the Chief Executive and Executive Management Team to develop the strategic direction and related objectives for health and safety that will be

Provide professional leadership to an efficient and effective service and positively influence and embed the Health and Safety agenda across the Council,

including traded entities and commercial partners.

• management of health and safety, and promote and engender appropriate culture change and organisational development in relation to health and safety.

• Responsible for developing, continually reviewing and implementing the Council’s Health and Safety Policy.

• Ensure clear targets, benchmarks and objectives are set for the delivery of a proactive, sustained, measurable approach to health and safety

Ensure Council wide effective health and safety management and performance by reviewing and assessing health and safety auditing processes, making

Lead on timely communications with staff at all levels of the organisation to promote improved health and safety management.• Prepare the annual health and safety report for presentation to Committee.

• Monitor and assess health and safety performance against the relevant performance indicators, including compliance with legislations and work with

Oversee and influence the organisational Health and Safety training needs to meet legislation and the delivery of the health and safety agenda.

• Present high quality, professional, concise and accurate health and safety information, statistics and business case reports to the Chief Executive,

Develop and manage effective joint working relationship with all relevant external agencies, including HSE, to maximise the Council's role, function and

influence in relation to all aspects of organisational Health and Safety.

• Actively promote, represent and advocate on behalf of the service and Council at local, regional and national level as appropriate.

Ensure the Council is demonstrably compliant with the relevant Health & Safety legislation, including the identification of areas/issues that require improvement

and recommend and develop strategic projects to minimise the moral, legal and financial risk to the Council and external stakeholders

• Deputise for the Service Director in relation to the health and safety agenda as required.

• Responsible for the leadership of the Corporate Health and Safety service.

• resources allocated with the aim of achieving business objectives, enabling transformation and delivering performance improvements across the Council's

Health and Safety service

• Support the Service Director to ensure that the Council's statutory obligations relating to Health and Safety are met.

• Support the Chief Executive in their role of holding overall responsibility for Health and Safety, the Director of Law and Corporate Governance who

holds delegated responsibility and the Health and Safety Lead Member.

• Understand and uphold the Council Constitution, Scheme of Financial Delegation and Contract Procedure Rules of the Council and ensure that

they are followed throughout the Corporate Health and Safety Service.

• Support the democratic process, providing advice to elected members on the appropriate response to local and regional matters in relation to

Health and Safety, as well as the internal business of the Council.

• Champion effective management of risk and the active response to audit findings in relation to service delivery. in the Directorate for the local risk register and any aspects of the corporate risk register and corporate risk framework of the Council relevant to

Promote, preserve and protect the health and safety of councillors, employees, service users, contractors and partners in the provision of Council

services, ensuring that the provisions of all relevant legislation are achieved, such as the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

Demonstrates strong contract and performance management skills in managing third party suppliers.

• Promote a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging colleagues to share ideas, take appropriate risks, and recognising innovation.

• Champion and embed a performance and quality assurance culture that delivers results through rigorous open challenge, personal accountability and

Continually review and reshape service delivery to achieve financial efficiencies and maximise opportunities for income generation, whilst maintaining the

Ensure the effective management and deployment of all appropriate budgets in line with agreed financial processes, envelopes and savings, including

contract budgets for people services and pooled budgets where appropriate

o Regular contact and ad hoc meetings as required, both in person and virtual

• Health and Safety Team Leaders (Direct reports)

o Regular contact and ad hoc meetings as required, both in person and virtual


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