Head of Sheq

**Head of Safety Health Environmental and Quality - Hybrid Working/Dartford Head Office
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Fusion Lifestyle is on a mission to bring health and wellbeing to communities across the UK. We are looking for a Head of Safety Health Environment and Quality to promote a culture of health, safety, continuous improvement and environmental effectivenessacross the charity, its communities and operations.

**Fusion Lifestyle**:
We are a leading Sports, Leisure and Fitness operator and a registered charity with over 60 dynamic venues offering mainstream and specialist sports and leisure facilities. We also have some exciting brands such as INTENCITY (HIIT fitness studio concept).

**The Role**:
The Head of SHEQ will be in charge of monitoring all safety-related systems, including risk assessments and operating plans, and developing and leading the successful implementation of a sustainability strategy. The post holder will chiefly oversee the charity’sportfolio of external accreditations including ISO and Quest.

**Tasks and responsibilities**:

- Advise the Leadership teams on the direction of audit/compliance and quality standards and, via reports and presentations, alert them to development in legislation and best practice
- Define and manage statistics related to the Charity’s performance and ensure, through analysis of the information, a culture of safety, effectiveness and continuous improvement is developed
- Develop detailed operational business improvement plans, which will ensure effectiveness and value for money in accordance with the company’s strategic aims and that meet contractual obligations
- Ensure the charity is legally compliant with all health, safety and other relevant legislation
- Oversee the continuous improvement and successful implementation of all safety and operational systems including normal operating procedures, emergency action plans, facility standards audits and risk management procedures
- Monitor and investigate accidents, incidents, near misses and serious incidents to discover causes, identify trends and improve operational practice
- Oversee insurance claims between management & broker
- Conducting strategic analysis of energy usage to identify areas for improvement
- Oversee the preparation and implementation of new energy saving and control initiatives and measure the performance of initiatives to ensure effectiveness
- Develop a management plan to support operational teams in managing and reducing energy use
- Leading on utility procurement and bill validation
- Producing annual budgets for site utility costs
- Produce action plans to improve performance where KPIs show deficiencies in current processes
- Develop and lead an effective EHS audit strategy
- Establish positive relations with existing Clients and partners to gain confidence and become a trusted advocate
- Oversee the successful management and retention of existing business accreditations such as Quest and ISO
- Prepare and deliver in-depth reporting of own area of responsibility to the Executive Leadership Team and Board of Trustees

**Experience/Skills and attributes**:

- Thorough and current understanding of relevant topics including civil and criminal law, health and safety management and technical advances (Essential)
- Ability to interpret Health and Safety and other relevant legislation (Essential)
- Ability to produce written policy and explain complex concepts succinctly (Essential)
- Highly developed political awareness and reputation management skills (Essential)
- Project management skills to enable the effective co-ordination of multi-disciplinary project teams (Essential)
- NEBOSH or IOSH qualified/member (Essential)
- Educated to degree level or equivalent (Desirable)
- Broad knowledge and experience in the leisure sector (Desirable)
- Demonstrated ability to lead and develop a team of people (Desirable)
- Problem-solving and analytical skills (Essential)
- Demonstrated progressive leadership experience (Essential)
- Active affiliation with appropriate networks and organisations and ongoing community involvement (Desirable)