Health, Safety, Environmental and Wellbeing Officer

7 days ago

Cardiff, United Kingdom Cardiff University Full time

**Job Purpose**
Support the University within Health, Safety, Environmental and Wellbeing processes carrying out supporting work, providing advice, guidance and support, and leading projects within this area
- **Duties and Responsibilities**

**Key Duties**
- Provide professional advice and guidance on Health, Safety, Environmental and Wellbeing processes and procedures to internal and external customers that will have institute wide impacts, using judgement and creativity to suggest the most appropriate course of action where appropriate, and ensuring complex and conceptual issues are understood
- Take responsibility for resolving issues independently within Health, Safety, Environmental and Wellbeing areas where they fall within set role objectives
- Investigate and analysis specific issues within Health, Safety, Environmental and Wellbeing, creating recommendation reports, supported by advances within Health, Safety, Environmental and Wellbeing
- Ensure that the provision of Health, Safety, Environmental and Wellbeing is delivered to the institution, proactively changing the delivery according to customer requirements
- Establish working relationships with key contacts, developing appropriate communication links with the University’s Schools/Directorates and outside bodies as required
- Create specific working groups from colleagues across the University to achieve Health, Safety, Environmental and Wellbeing objectives
- Plan and deliver specific small scale projects, co-ordinating and supervising project teams created as needed
- Develop and deliver training within Health, Safety, Environmental and Wellbeing
- Undertake a variety of administrative duties to support the department
- Instruct and guide other employees across the University within Health, Safety, Environmental and Wellbeing processes.

**General Duties**
- Ensure that an understanding of the importance of confidentiality is applied when undertaking all duties
- Abide by University policies on Health and Safety and Equality and Diversity
- Perform other duties occasionally which are not included above, but which will be consistent with the role
- You will also liaise, support, and provide clear, concise and accurate advice to the Head of the Schools Health and Safety team, (Health Safety and Infrastructure), and the Technical Services Manager to ensure the School of Engineering complies with its statutory responsibilities whilst implementing the Cardiff University Safety, Health and Environment Management System in order to maintain accreditation to ISO 45001, ISO 45003 and ISO 14001.

**Person Specification**

**Essential criteria**

**Qualifications and Education**
- Degree/NVQ 4 or equivalent Professional membership/experience.
- National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH) National Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety or equivalent.
- Chartered Membership of The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (CMIOSH) or Graduate IOSH (GradIOSH) and be at least actively working towards Chartered Membership (CMIOSH)

**Knowledge, Skills and Experience**
- Substantial experience of working within specialist discipline
- Able to demonstrate professional knowledge within specialist discipline to give advice and guidance to internal and external customers
- Proven experience in developing new processes and procedures

**Customer Service, Communication and Team Working**
- Ability to communicate conceptually detailed and complex information effectively and professionally with a wide range of people
- Evidence of ability to explore customers’ needs and adapt the service accordingly to ensure a quality service is delivered
- Proven ability to develop networks in order to contribute to long term developments

**Planning, Analysis and Problem solving**
- Evidence of ability to solve expansive problems using initiative and creativity; identify and propose both practical and innovative solutions
- Evidence of demonstrable knowledge of key advances within specialist discipline
- Evidence of ability to undertake and deliver specific projects and supervise short term project teams

**Desirable Criteria**
- Postgraduate/Professional qualification
- Experience of working in a Higher Education environment
- Fluency in Welsh, written and oral

**Additional Information**

**Job Purpose continued**

The School of Engineering is looking to appoint a Health, Safety, Environmental and Wellbeing Officer that has thorough knowledge of UK Health and Safety legislation to provide expert advice and guidance to support all activities of the School of Engineering. You will support and enable the implementation and continuous improvement of effective safety, health, environmental and wellbeing strategies, policies and procedures to enable the School of Engineering to continue as a healthy and safe place to work and study. You will have the ability to prioritise and respond to simultaneous service requests, and have the ability to explain,

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