She Business Partner

**SHE Business Partner**
**041985**

**Organisation**
- SHE BUSINESS PARTNERING

**Job**
- Environment

**Position Type**
- Full Time

**Job Title**: Safety Health and Environment Business Partner (Manager) (041985)

**Band**: 3

Location: Palestra Office, Southwark & Endeavour Square, Stratford, London (Hybrid) but with travel required to other locations across London & the TfL network.

**Duration**: Permanent positions. Secondments will be considered across all roles.

**Job Overview**

These roles require the post holder to act as a partner in support of various TfL teams. To ensure Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) requirements are met, improvements identified, and business colleagues are provided with, and understand the tools to manage SHE risks. This will be achieved by providing professional advice, guidance and support on all SHE aspects for business areas.

The seven permanent SHE Business Partner positions will support:

- Bus Operations (including Dial-a-Ride and Victoria Coach Station)
- DLR, London Overground and Trams
- London Underground
- The Elizabeth Line
- Capital Projects (Infrastructure) - 3 vacancies

**Key Accountabilities**
- Identify and develop appropriate improvement programmes within the business area, working through the business to get these implemented. Champion and implement the SHE strategy in respective business area, developing improvement initiatives in line with this
- Plan, develop and conduct appropriate second-line assurance programmes within a business area (including suppliers) according to levels of risk. Challenge the business to take ownership of first line assurance and ensure it is robust
- Understand performance trends and use them to drive improvement actions and business decision-making and improve business understanding of SHE responsibilities.
- Working with relevant internal and external stakeholders, use assurance outputs, risk assessment and incident findings to identify and deliver SHE improvements that reduce risk and contribute to the delivery of TfL’s SHE Vision
- Coach the business to understand their SHE accountabilities and challenge to improve their performance and ensure regulatory compliance. Deliver training as part of delivery of a wider SHE training programme.
- Understand and reflect business area requirements back into the SHE function so they can be factored into the development of the SHE strategy and vision.
- Provide technical advice, best practice sharing and support in incident investigation and learning to the business. Ensure that this is in line with the overall SHE strategy.
- Understand business specific SHE risk data and prioritise action in areas of highest risk.
- Ensure TfL and / or supplier teams undertaking construction and / or design activity are meeting CDM duties, TfL’s SHE requirements, and active in driving down SHE risks to customers, workforce and members of the public within their activities.
- Where TfL is acting as the Principal Contractor / Contractor undertake or support management and advisory activity to ensure teams are competent and working to agreed safe systems of work.
- Understand TfL-wide risks and how these impact on business area risks and vice versa.

**Key Interfaces**
- Heads of and Senior Managers and their teams within TfL Capital, Surface Transport, DLR/Overground/Trams, London Underground and the Elizabeth Line, with particular interfaces with those making decisions affecting strategic SHE improvement plans and their own directorate tactical plans
- Representatives of Regulators and key stakeholders (e.g. Health & Safety Executive, Office of Rail and Road; Highways Agency; London Fire Emergency Planning Authority; Environment Agency ; Rail Accident Investigation Branch; GLA; Public Health England, Local Authorities; Committee on Medical Effects of Air Pollution etc)
- Local Trade Union safety representatives - for maintenance of effective SHE communication and consultation

**Knowledge**
- An understanding of the Mayor's Transport Strategy and TfL's business priorities
- Knowledge of external regulatory requirements and safety and environmental related standards and legislation
- Membership of relevant professional body eg. IOSH, IEMA, CIBSE (Desirable)
- A relevant qualification or evidence of working towards (Desirable)

**Skills**
- To have the credibility to coach and influence stakeholders
- Ability to understand performance data and trends and explain the underlying meaning to the business
- Collaboration skills, including working across organisational boundaries
- Ability to initiate and effect business and behaviour change design
- Ability to work in a highly pressurised environment to tight time constraints and to a high standard
- Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, with a proven ability to write strategic and analytical reports
- Ability to prioritise workload, make decisions about SHE compliance in a dynamic environment

**Experience**
- Experience of wor