Health and Safety Assistant

**Details**: **Reference number**: - 238880**Salary**: - £29,385 - £34,571**Grade**: - Other**Contract type**: - Permanent**Type of role**: - Health and Safety**Working pattern**: - Flexible working, Full-time**Number of posts**: - 1Contents Location About the job **Benefits**: Things you need to know Location - Longstanton, East of England, CB24 3EN : Coventry, West Midlands (England), CV1 2GNAbout the job **Summary**: - Working in a team with Julie Richardson our Snr Safety, Health & Environmental (SHE) Manager, a second SHE Assistant and 3 SHE Advisers, the SHE Assistant will play a critical role in providing a professional analytical and administrative support service to the SHE Team to ensure that Homes England meets its statutory obligations and achieves continuous performance improvement. You will be joining our enthusiastic/friendly/talented/highly skilled/experienced team of 6 people, who are committed to making positive change in how Safety, Health and Environment within the agency operates.**Job description**: Julie is dedicated to delivering a first-class customer service, resolving queries/issues informally wherever possible, taking an innovative and creative approach to SHE issues. Julie values diversity in experience and perspective to foster good decision making and problem solving within their team. This is a rare chance to shape the future of Safety, Health and Environment in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders and a professional SHE team you will ensure efficient, consistent and effective resolution of queries/issues and the have the opportunity to help create a professional, effective SHE team service offering. The role will support the design and delivery of key strategic projects around Safety, Health and Environment. There are some exciting/rewarding/creative/ambitious projects to get involved with and this is an excellent opportunity to balance day to day delivery whilst bringing innovative solutions to the SHE offering. Julie is dedicated to delivering a first-class customer service, resolving queries/issues informally wherever possible, taking an innovative and creative approach to SHE issues. Julie values diversity in experience and perspective to foster good decision making and problem solving within their team. This is a rare chance to shape the future of Safety, Health and Environment in a fast growing, national organisation with real social purpose. Working with key stakeholders and a professional SHE team you will ensure efficient, consistent and effective resolution of queries/issues and the have the opportunity to help create a professional, effective SHE team service offering. The role will support the design and delivery of key strategic projects around Safety, Health and Environment. There are some exciting/rewarding/creative/ambitious projects to get involved with and this is an excellent opportunity to balance day to day delivery whilst bringing innovative solutions to the SHE offering. **Responsibilities**: Whilst our day job is to deliver first class customer service to our stakeholders on Safety, Health and Environment, you will be used to "spinning several plates" at once and will always be looking for ways to improve and innovate. You'll be comfortable supporting the SHE Team with complex issues, aiming to enable the team to deliver excellent internal and external stakeholder service. You will be proficient in analytical and administrative support. Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as a Safety, Health and Environmental team. You will enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way and be able to negotiate and persuade. As an experienced professional you’ll understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way. **Benefits**: - Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include: - Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays. - Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours. - Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 2