She Business Partner

**Organisation** **-** SHE BUSINESS PARTNERING

**Job** **-** Occupational Health

**Position Type** **-** Full Time

**Job title**:SHE Business Partner x2** (044107)**

**Band**:3

**Duration**:Permanent

**Salary**:£48,000 to £55,000

**Job Overview**

An exciting opportunity for a dynamic Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) Business Partner; we are seeking a Safety, Health & Environment manager-level individual to join the SHE Team at Transport for London.

As a SHE Business Partner, your role is to act as a critical friend and partner to business areas within TfL and with our supply chain partners. You are there to provide professional advice, guidance and support on all Safety, Health, and Environment aspects for the relevant business areas. You will ensure business and legislative requirements are met and promote change and continuous improvement to drive down injury and risk to customers, colleagues and anyone else affected by our activities.

Applications are welcomed from Safety, Health & Environment professionals who have proven experience in a similar role and are passionate about promoting a culture of continuous improvement for safety and health amongst colleagues, stakeholders and partner organisations and other service providers.

We’re looking for two SHE Business Partners to be placed in our team supporting:

- Network Management & Resilience - responsible for the performance and management of London’s road network
- Compliance, Policing, Operations and Security (CPOS) - responsible for community safety, enforcement and policing across London's transport system
- Buses (including Victoria Coach Station and Dial-a-Ride)
- Places for London - TfL’s commercial property company
- TfL’s taxi and private hire vehicle Licencing and Regulation team
- London Transport Museum
- TfL’s corporate teams
- experience of working in the public transport sector, particularly in managing road-related risk
- asset management and property development experience within large commercial joint ventures construction and development organisations
- experience of working in facilities management
- wide ranging stakeholder experience, engaging internal and external partners delivering across complex matrix organisations.

**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.
- Provide constructive challenge and hold TfL business areas to account to ensure that they meet their SHE accountabilities
- 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 SHE 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 investigation 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 TfL’s SHE requirements and are active in driving down injury and risk 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.

**Knowledge**
- Understanding of safety & health culture and drivers for change and improvement in culture across organisations
- Understanding of the Mayor's Transport Strategy and TfL's business priorities
- Membership of relevant professional body e.g. IOSH, IEMA, CIBSE (Desirable)
- Related degree or equivalent qualification (Desirable)

**Skills**
- The ability to develop credibility, coach and influence stakeholders
- Collaboration skills, including working across organisational boundaries
- Ability to initiate and effec