Health and Safety Advisor

3 weeks ago


Maidstone, United Kingdom Kent Fire & Rescue Service Full time

**Kent Fire and Rescue Service (KFRS) **has an exciting opportunity available for a **Health and Safety Advisor **to join our team in **Maidstone. **You will join us on a **full-time, permanent basis, **and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of **£33,101 - £37,583 per annum, plus on-call allowance.**

**Being a part of Kent Fire and Rescue Service**

Everyone is unique. Everyone has value. Everyone helps to make Kent Fire and Rescue Service a great place to work. We are one team. Together with our customers, we are creating a safer future for Kent and Medway.

**About the role**:
As a **Health and Safety Advisor**, you will work with a variety of people across Kent Fire and Rescue Service, building trusted relationships with stakeholders and leverage data to promote excellent H&S practice. You’ll support a variety of stations, as well as some Customer Service Teams, providing H&S expertise to managers and colleagues alike.

You’ll work as part of a team of 3 Advisors, providing support to teams across the county.

**As our Health and Safety Advisor, you will be responsible for**:

- Supporting the Authority in meeting its Health and Safety obligations
- Building and maintaining trusted relationships with stakeholders to influence and promote good H&S practice
- Supporting the health, safety and wellbeing of our operational and Customer Service Teams
- Providing advice, support and guidance to managers and colleagues to ensure their understanding of key H&S policies and procedures (e.g.the H&S management system, the general RA requirements but in particular manual handling, COSHH and noise assessment and accident investigations)
- Using all available leading and lagging data effectively to actively monitor trends, identify issues and assess and report risk. Proposing and implementing actions necessary to mitigate or address risk

**What we’re looking for in our** **Health and Safety Advisor**:

- Be qualified in H&S, Nebosh Certificate or equivalent Level 3 Qualification
- Tech IOSH
- Sound knowledge and understanding of H&S legislation.
- Good communication skills which show an understanding of how to engage with key stakeholders to achieve positive outcomes, including influencing/coaching skills and an ability to develop managers approach to safety
- An interest in Occupational Hygiene

**Closing date**:Monday 7th August 2023**

Interviews will take place on **29th, 30th and 31st August 2023**

If you feel have the skills and experience to become our **Health and Safety Advisor **please click ‘**apply’** today, we’d love to hear from you
- Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. We know that great minds don’t think alike, so we rely on diverse thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and backgrounds to create the best working environment that we can possibly offer._
- Kent Fire and Rescue Service, its employees, and volunteers are committed to safeguarding, protecting, and supporting children, young people, and adults at risk. As part of our safer recruitment process, we will undertake pre-employment checks to verify your suitability for the role. These checks will include your references and a standard or enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Enhanced DBS check with barred lists are carried out for roles with direct and unsupervised access to children, young people, and adults at risk. Risk assessments will be undertaken on any disclosures identified as part of the pre-employment checks. _



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