Health & Safety Advisor - 12 months fixed term contract

Are you an experienced Health and Safety Advisor with an operational background? Why not consider joining our established Health and Safety Team to support the work we do with our Property Services colleagues.

With a passion for health and safety you will use your knowledge and experience to assist colleagues to embed best practice ensuring relevant, legislation, standards and codes of practice are applied to specific working environments and activities.

Working closely with our trade operational colleagues and leaders, you'll get to really understand the maintenance service provided to our customers and will seek to support the business as a subject matter expert. Your work will include assessing risk, providing advice, incident investigation, training delivery and carrying out a programme of monitoring to protect colleagues from potential injury and health risks. You'll be confident in creating reports and providing recommendations to support the best course of action.

You'll be completing workplace inspections on a wide range of building types, including occupied premises and will collaborate with your colleagues in the wider team to share knowledge and experience, drawing on each other's expertise to provide a thorough service to colleagues, ensuring effective risk management.

About you

You should have demonstrable experience of applying health and safety practices within a medium to large sized organisation and hold a minimum of NEBOSH General Certificate qualification or equivalent. A background in housing is desirable but not essential.

You will also have:

• Significant experience providing advice on hazard identification and risk management
• A proven track record of conducting good quality site audits and written reports
• Knowledge and competence in incident investigations with good attention to detail
• The ability to manage diary commitments and prioritise your own workload
• Experience in researching, reviewing and developing health and safety policies and procedures
• Strong communication skills and a proven ability to work collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders

It is a varied role and well-suited to you if you are a positive, resilient, lateral thinker that can work on your own initiative and manage your time effectively. You will work both independently and as part of a team, have excellent communication and problem-solving skills, and be able to provide competent advice.

Within the role you will be required to visit our portfolio of locations to meet with colleagues and carry out inspections and investigations, so travel is required. You will hold a full UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work purposes.

The role is hybrid, therefore you can choose to work primarily from home, with office hubs being available in various locations with bookable desks for your use.

Our main operating region covers Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and London.

We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:

• Flexible working – whilst some roles need to be carried out in a specific place at a specific time, where possible we encourage our colleagues to work to their own schedule at a location that suits them, their team and our business' needs
• A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
• We invest in colleagues' careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
• Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
• Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
• Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
• Enhanced leave
• We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives

To apply, please use information provided in the advert and role profile to let us know why you'd be good for the job. Please submit a copy of your up-to-date CV along with a supporting statement.

You will be required to undertake a basic DBS check if successful.

We create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and believe that creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work is the right thing to do.

Aster is not a sponsorship organisation and all candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it's subsidiary brands.

The Company has experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years. We have a vast number of employees, and provide support to clients from all over the country.

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