Health and Safety Specialist

20 hours ago


Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Yorkshire Housing Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Health and Safety Specialist to join our team at Yorkshire Housing. As a key member of our Place and Field Operations teams, you will play a vital role in ensuring the safety and well-being of our colleagues, contractors, and customers.

Key Responsibilities
  • Supporting Safety Excellence: Help deliver best-in-class health and safety systems, from risk assessments to safe systems of work, emergency management, making sure they're understood and followed across the Place teams and schemes.
  • Training and Coaching: Work with team leaders to deliver health and safety training, toolbox talks, and coaching programmes, ensuring everyone knows how to work safely and feel safe.
  • Inspections & Audits: Conduct regular health and safety inspections and audits, ensuring compliance and promoting accident and incident prevention.
  • Lone Worker & Personal Safety: Implement and monitor personal safety programs, including lone worker systems, violence and aggression training, and warning markers.
  • Accident & Incident Support: Help investigate accidents and safety concerns, providing practical solutions to prevent them from happening again.
Requirements
  • Experience in health and safety advisory roles, ideally in environments like social housing, residential property, or local authority.
  • Knowledge of personal safety, fire safety, and wellbeing initiatives.
  • Strong communication and people skills you'll be training and working with colleagues at all levels.
  • The ability to manage multiple tasks, solve problems, and meet deadlines.
  • Experience using IT systems, databases, and Microsoft Office.
  • A can-do attitude, attention to detail, and the ability to work on your own initiative.
  • It would also be great if you hold a Health and Safety Diploma or NVQ Level 6 with certiOSH (or NEBOSH General Certificate with evidence of working towards Diploma/NVQ.
What We Offer
  • This is a full-time permanent role with a salary of £43,642.50 plus a £2,000 car allowance per annum.
  • 25 days annual leave (rising annually to 30 days) plus Bank Holidays.
  • We offer a reward package to suit everyone. At YH, you can claim back for prescriptions, eye tests and more with our cash plan, make the most of a variety of retail discounts and take advantage of our pension scheme where we'll match your contributions up to 9%, just to name a few.
  • Our people's health and wellbeing are one of our top priorities, and you can make the most of our readily available wellbeing support package. This includes access to a library of free fitness classes, as well as an instant My GP service and free counselling sessions with a trained professional.


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