Senior Health, Safety and Wellbeing Adviser

1 month ago


Leeds, United Kingdom Leeds City Council Full time

As the Senior Health, Safety and Wellbeing Adviser - Educational Visits and Adventurous Activities for Leeds City Council (LCC) you’ll excel at providing a range of high quality, responsive and flexible health and safety advice and guidance to a variety of stakeholders, including LCC Directors, Headteachers and school staff, service area staff, managers, and unions to help them comply with health and safety legislation and good practice.

You’ll thrive on being part of a fast paced, dynamic team who strive to ensure we meet our duties and responsibilities as the council’s “Competent People” every day and seek to continually improve.

Leeds City Council is one of the largest employers in the region with over 24,000 employees. We seek to recruit and develop talented individuals who embody our council values and ambitions.

**About you**

As the Senior Health, Safety and Wellbeing Adviser - Educational Visits and Adventurous Activities, you will bring to the role:

- Knowledge and experience of managing and / or monitoring educational visits and outdoor / adventurous activities including for persons with SEND and / or SEMH challenges.
- Experience of delivering training to a range of stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills through a range of media and with a range of stakeholders.
- A can-do approach and confidence to check and challenge and make decisions on routine health and safety issues.
- Experience of effectively using your own judgement skills to ensure positive outcomes whilst maintaining good working relationships with colleagues, managers, and other stakeholders.
- The physical ability to actively monitoring a range of educational visits and outdoor / adventurous activities, which may require taking part in physical activities including sailing, caving, cycling and fell walking.

**About the role**

As our next Senior Health, Safety and Wellbeing Adviser - Educational Visits and Adventurous Activities, you’ll be part of something bigger and join us in achieving the Best City Ambition, working together as a Team for Leeds. We have a new and ambitious Health, Safety and Wellbeing vision that you will play a key role in delivering and realising across Leeds.

The role offers excellent opportunities to develop and widen your experience, skills and knowledge and make a real difference to the staff and people of Leeds.

The role is integral to our Corporate Health, Safety and Wellbeing Team, that is part of the Human Resources Team. We support over 24,000 staff (based in 5 Directorates and over 100 Leeds City Council schools) and have a traded service to over 150 other organisations. Our remit also covers protecting the people of Leeds who use over 500 different Leeds City Council services. Within the Team we also have a range of specialist sub teams supporting strategies to reduce violence and aggression, schools’ health, safety and wellbeing and Occupational Health.

We are a caring and supportive Team, who want the best for and from our colleagues, and we are committed to developing each other to achieve the full potential of the Team and individuals within it.

You’ll provide specialist health, safety and wellbeing advice and support on a wide range of issues for allocated service areas and contribute to cross-council projects and initiatives.

We take pride in offering the best employee experience, with benefits including:

- a competitive salary and annual leave entitlement plus statutory holidays
- membership of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund with generous employer contributions
- a clear career pathway and continuing professional development opportunities
- a range of staff benefits to help you boost your wellbeing and make your money go further

**How to apply**

**Group work and written task assessment centres will be carried out on 19th January 2024 with interviews on the 22nd January 2024 for applicants that successfully pass the assessment centre stage.**

**We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.**

**We promote diversity and want a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds and the communities we serve. Leeds City Council is an Inclusive employer, ranked 70 on the Stonewall top 100 employers 2023 list. We are also an Age friendly employer, a Mindful employer and a Disability Confident leader.**

**This role is based in the UK. Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK - either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa. If you do not have the right to work in the UK and the role does not meet eligibility for sponsorship, please consider carefully whether you meet the eligibility to apply.**

**Job purpose**

To assist the Health, Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) Leadership Team, HSW Service Managers and HSW Business Partners by taking responsibility for delivering core elements of the HSW strategy for LCC. Prov



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