Health and Safety Coordinator

**Salary**: Grade 7, £43,191 - £48,117
**Duration of role**: Permanent
**Hours per week**: 37
**Location**: Hybrid - home / offsite and council offices (Abbey House, Abbey Close, Abingdon OX14 3JE), as required.

This is an exciting role to help us transform our approach to health and safety across the councils.

The post holder will be responsible for designing and supporting the delivery of the councils’ health and safety strategy along with the associated policies and arrangements for delivering its implementation across the councils. You’ll get the opportunityto be involved in almost every aspect of the councils’ activities, providing specialist knowledge in support of, and learning from, the experts managing the services.

You will need the knowledge, skills and experience to deliver and the interpersonal, communication and persuasion skills to bring everyone with you on the journey.

**Main duties and responsibilities**
- Maintain an understanding of existing and new health and safety legislation and/or best practice
- Ensure statutory reporting of incidents to the external Health and Safety Executive as appropriate
- Manage all administrative and statistical data in relation to health and safety
- Devise and manage the development and review of the councils’ health and safety strategy
- Review and update operational health and safety policies and procedures
- Provide advice and guidance to staff, service teams, managers and the strategic management team on health and safety matters
- Develop a training approach and programme for health and safety
- Ensure that appropriate resources are made available to address unacceptable health and safety risks
- Lead on health and safety matters across both councils on behalf of the Head of Paid Service
- Undertake regular auditing of work areas to proactively identify risks and provide expert guidance
- Investigate accidents and provide expert guidance to support managers in ensuring that any necessary actions to mitigate future risks are actioned
- To assist in the evaluation of contractors Health and Safety policies and procedures both during the tender process and ongoing contract monitoring where appropriate
- Oversee and contract manage the corporate lone worker system and oversee the threat premises systems
- Manage the content of the health and safety intranet pages on the learning management system
- Develop, administer and deliver training packages and, where applicable, procure training
- Ensuring the councils’ health and safety policies and procedures are deployed correctly
- Prepare for and participate in internal audits for health and safety

**Your essential skills, knowledge and experience**
- knowledge of health and safety legislation, guidance and best practice in a related sector
- understanding of the importance of health and safety strategy and policy and the practical steps required for their effective implementation
- proven experience in similar role
- membership of a relevant professional body, with up-to-date continuous professional development
- a proven track record of proactively identifying problems and taking the initiative for solving them
- excellent written and verbal skills
- sound knowledge of excel, word etc.

**Your essential qualifications**
- educated to degree level (or qualified by experience)
- NEBOSH qualified
- a full driving licence

**If you have the following experience or qualifications, it’s a bonus**
- experience of demonstrating the practical steps required for implementing health and safety culture
- experience of leading, creating or influencing health and safety strategy and policy development
- local government experience

**Your style and behaviours**
- able to provide professional advice confidently, expressing a viewpoint and providing direction
- interacting confidently with staff and councillors across all levels of the organisation
- a strong team player who works in alignment with the councils’ values and code of conduct
- excellent persuasive and advocacy skills
- able to handle competing priorities and a challenging workload in a complex political environment
- an inclusive and ethical team player who can foster positive working relationships, partnerships and work collaboratively across boundaries to achieve performance and results through others

**About us**

Our vision and values are important to the councils and we expect you to support them and embed them in the way we work.

**Our vision**

We are seen as being customer-focused, approachable and business-like. We are honest and open and are renowned for providing high-quality cost-effective services.

**Our values**
- We act with integrity and show respect
- We are all accountable
- We are passionate about our business
- We strive for simplicity
- We love success

**The benefits we offer**
- A basic 24 days annual leave per annum, rising to 29 days after five years.
- Flexible working and annualised hours - a flexible approach to work that our employees love
- Salary pay awards
- Payment of annual professional membership
- A generous career-average pension scheme which includes life insurance of three times your salary
- The opportunity to purchase a bike through Cyclescheme
- A salary sacrifice car lease scheme - a fully inclusive driving package for a fixed monthly cost
- Various schemes to keep you healthy
- We give you two days per year to volunteer within the local community

You may have experience of the following: SHEQ Advisor, Health and Safety Advisor, H&S Officer, H&S Advisor, Health and Safety Advisor, NEBOSH, CMIOSH, Risk Assessment, Health & Safety Consultant, CMIOSH, SHE Advisor, Quality Assurance, H&S, SHEQ, PublicSector, Local Authority, Local Government, etc.

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