Regional Head of Safety

**Regional Head of Safety - Scotland (Part-Time 20 hours)**

**Salary £35,000 - £45,000 Pro-rata**

CC Nurseries Group key values of Respectful Relationships, Responsive Teaching and Learning, Inspiring Environments and Equality and Equity are threaded throughout everything that we do and ensure that we are delivering on our mission statement that Childhood Matters. We take inspiration from the Te Wariki curriculum of New Zealand and deliver our curriculum through our four key values.

We are looking for a regional **food and safety manager** to help oversee our beautiful settings at CC Nurseries in **Edinburgh, Whitburn and Glasgow.**

**Overall Purpose**

As Safety Manager you will play a key role in training and advising the operations and nursery management teams on our policies and procedures which will enable them to provide a safe and healthy environment throughout the organisation, including food safety. You will work in partnership with Bright Safe to ensure the company is meeting all Health & Safety and Food Safety requirements. Your passion and enthusiasm will inspire others to take a proactive and positive approach to safety, health and wellbeing and help promote safe working practices.

**Key Tasks**:

- Ensure compliance with Health and Safety regulations.
- Escalation of Health & Safety or Critical works to the SLT.
- Provide training and advice to the operations team and nursery management to enable them to understand and uphold the company policies and legal duties.
- Undertake audits in the nurseries, observe staff practice and completion of documentation in line with our policies and procedures and Bright Safe
- To centrally monitor all critical / serious incidents and report to regulatory bodies as necessary.
- Liaise with managers to ensure they have identified the cause, areas for improvement and prevention controls.
- Review, advise and implement suitable risk assessments in line with Bright Safe to ensure legal requirements are being met and managed effectively.
- Monitor regulatory visit reports, accidents, incidents, and complaints relating to food and safety via Bright Safe.
- Share best practice and ways of working with management and operations teams.
- Keep up to date with legal changes including, new legislation and guidance related to health, safety, food safety, hygiene, and welfare.
- Be the expert in food safety.
- Overall responsibility for menu development and gain accreditation for our menus.
- Support with recruitment and training of nursery chefs.
- Oversee policy development relating to food and safety.
- Review data trends to inform policy and best practice.
- Manage the Facilities & H&S Coordinator to prioritise maintenance works.
- Management and monitoring of Bright Safe system
- Prepare and report to the Directors, Board and as required.

**Knowledge and skills required**:

- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to motivate staff teams to success.
- Ability to analyse data and present findings.
- Full UK Driving Licence
- Ability to identify priorities and meet outcomes.
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to work well under pressure.

In return some of the benefits we can offer you include:

- **Birthday Day Off**
- **Annual leave up to 33 days**
- **Employee Assistance Programme**
- **Sovereign Healthcare Programme.**
- **Paid training**
- **Day off work for charity per year.**
- **Company Pension Scheme.**
- **High Street Discounts.**
- **Enhanced discounted childcare, minimum of a 60% discount for nursery employees.**
- **Annual leave purchase scheme available - buy 5 days per year.**
- **Long service awards**
- **Staff welcome gift bag for new starters.**
- **Star of the moment awards.**
- **Annual awards ceremony.**

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 20 per week

**Salary**: £35,000.00-£45,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Safety Manager: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

- IOSH (required)
- NEBOSH (required)
- Driving Licence (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Willingness to travel:

- 100% (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Edinburgh

Reference ID: Safety/Scotland/June23