Health & Safety Trainer (Competency Assessor)

Salary

**up to £35,500 per year (depending on experience)**
- Location

**Pity Me, Durham, County Durham**

**About the role**

**Health and Safety Trainer (Competency Assessor)**

**Working hours** _Full time 37 hours per week (flexible working arrangements including part time will be considered)_

**Permanent**

**Salary**_up to £35,500 per year (depending on experience) _

**Location** _hybrid working with office location at Pity Me, Durham or other NWG sites across the North East, with regular travel to Essex and Sffolksites_

**About the role**

We have an exciting opportunity for a Health and Safety Trainer to join us at Northumbrian Water Group. The purpose of the role is to deliver, assess, and ensure compliance in health and safety training programs.

You will evaluate the competency of employees in areas such as permit to work, safe isolation, and working at height, ensuring all staff meet necessary competency standards. You will maintain accurate records of training and competency assessments.

You will develop, review, and update training materials to reflect current best practices, regulatory standards, and NWG policies including the use of E learning development. You will also identify improvements to training, assessments and procedures based on safety data and feedback.

**About you**

If you have knowledge and experience of Health and Safety Training and Assessments, we want to hear from you.

You will have the IOSH Managing Safety Certificate or equivalent qualification, and either have a NEBOSH Certificate or be willing to work towards it.

You will ideally have designed and delivered Health and Safety training effectively across a wide range of different job roles, within a utilities or similarly high-risk environment.
- Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work._
- Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks. They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversation that improves our organisational awareness, understanding and inclusivity._
- Please note this role may require a DBS to be completed prior to employment_

**About us**

Here are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.

We’re aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, however if you have some of the skills listed, we'd encourage you to apply

**NWG at a glance**:
Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come. We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.

We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business. Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.

**Our benefits**

We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues. Our ‘Tap Into’ benefits include:

- Generous holiday entitlement starting at 23 days, plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays.
- Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 10%.
- Free access to local attractions.
- A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.
- Award winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members.
- Support with sustainable travel - through salary sacrifice cars and a cycle to work scheme.
- Financial wellbeing support - access our community savings scheme, financial education and low cost loans through Salary Finance. We also provide 4 x Life Assurance and an Income Protection Scheme.
- Support with your development - we offer a range of development opportunities, can support you through an interest free qualification loan and we’ll even pay for any relevant professional body subscription.
- This is a safety or security critical role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment, prospective employees and agency workers will be required to undertake a drug