Head of Health, Safety

2 days ago

Reading, United Kingdom Irwin & Colton Full time

**Head of Health, Safety and Food Safety (Hospitality)
Southeast | Up to £60,000 + Car Allowance**

Irwin & Colton have engaged on an exciting opportunity with one of the UK's leading catering companies, who are looking to bring onboard a new **Head of Health, Safety and Food Safety**. This organisation is well-recognised across the UK, particularly within the education sector, and this role is a great opportunity to lead the existing Health, Safety and Food Safety team. This will bea varied role in a dynamic, fast paced environment and will focus across food safety and general health and safety.

Responsibilities of the **Head of Health, Safety and Food Safety** will include:

- Leading the team on the day-day implementation of the safety management system, auditing against this and running training where required
- Working with site managers to create pragmatic solutions and ensuring key priorities from audits are to be actioned
- Leading on the roll out initiatives to meet customer and client expectations
- Continually looking for opportunities to improve performance across health and safety and food safety; creating new and innovative ideas based on these
- Representing the company as best as possible when meeting with senior stakeholders and board members

The successful **Head of Health, Safety and Food Safety**will have:

- NEBOSH Diploma / equivalent, with relevant IOSH membership (Essential)
- Environmental Health (CIEH) / Level 4 Food safety (Essential)
- Proven experience in a similar role across both food safety and health & safety, experience within the hospitality industry is ideal
- Experience operating in extremely fast paced, multi-site environments and prioritising effectively
- Exceptional communications skills with experience of influencing and engaging effectively across a wide range of stakeholders
- Irwin & Colton are a specialist Health and Safety recruitment company, based in the Southeast of England we recruit across the UK. We recruit all roles in the health and safety industry from Health and Safety Manager, Health, and safety Director throughto Health and Safety Advisor positions._

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