Health & Safety Administrator

Area

Health and Safety

Location

University Park

Closing Date

Monday 27 October 2025

Reference

CAS2566

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Health and Safety Administrator to join the growing Health and Safety team on a fixed term basis til 31st December 2025, with the potential of extending the employment after this date.

We are seeking an enthusiastic team worker who can work independently and as part of a team. You will be friendly, proactive, and self-motivated. In addition, the successful candidate will possess excellent planning, organisation and communication skills.

The role holder will work together with colleagues to provide administrative support and ensure day-to-day operational needs are met.

As an Administrator you will:

• Support the Health and Safety Advisors with administrative tasks
• Receive and respond to internal and external queries, providing advice and resolving both simple and complex issues queries
• Support the coordination of the Health and Safety training programme, including booking of rooms, ordering catering and scheduling on the internal short courses' website
• Monitoring budgets and raising purchases orders for the team.
• Maintaining databases
• Supporting with events and projects

You will bring:

• Extensive level of IT skills, including MS Office suite (e.g. Outlook, Word, Excel, SharePoint, and Teams)
• Ability to build working relationships within the department, contacts around the University and external suppliers
• Ability to work independently to resolve complex internal and external queries.
• Provide and maintain a high level of customer service whilst working to deadlines.
• Accuracy, reliability and the willingness and adaptability to learn new skills and procedures.

Why work for us?

• 27 days annual leave entitlement with an additional 5 University Closure days and Bank Holidays
• A benefits package including a contributory pension scheme and the opportunity to take advantage of salary sacrifice options, enabling you to save money on childcare, shopping, and services.
• We are committed to staff development through the provision of training, continued support, and career progression opportunities.

The post is offered on a fixed term contract until 31st December on a full time hours per week) basis, with a potential to extend after this date. The role is offered with a hybrid approach, with a minimum of three days in the office, subject to operational needs.

Application Instructions:

The Careers and Employability Service supports student and alumni to make choices about their future after their studies. To support you every step of the way, the team can help you to:

• ace the recruitment process providing advice on CV writing and interview preparation.
• explore a wide range of careers areas through web resources and sector events.
• connect with employers with vacancies through careers fairs.
• generate career ideas if you're not sure what you want to do.
• develop the skills you need to be successful in the workplace.

Go to the Careers and Employability Service website to find out more.

Our University is a supportive, inclusive, caring and positive community. We warmly welcome those of different cultures, ethnicities and beliefs – indeed this very diversity is vital to our success, it is fundamental to our values and enriches life on campus. We welcome applications from UK, Europe and from across the globe.

Further information:

The University of Nottingham will ask you whether you have any unspent criminal convictions as part of our pre-assignment checks. If the position you are applying for is 'exempt' from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 you will be asked to confirm both spent and unspent convictions at the point of offer. Examples of such posts include clinical, medical and allied health roles, roles involving childcare services. A DBS check may also be required.

The University will only use information relating to criminal convictions where the law allows us to do so in line with our Data Protection Policy. Personal data relating to criminal convictions will be retained confidentially and securely and access to that data will be strictly controlled. More information relating to the manner in which we process your personal data is located within our privacy notice for staff, job applicants and others working at the University. Information about your rights relating to the use of your personal data can be found within our website privacy notice.

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