Policy Advisor

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 210724**Salary**:

- £39,334 - £45,865**Grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HSE - Engagement & Policy Division (EPD)**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of posts**:

- 1**Contents**:
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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Bootle, YorkAbout the job

**Summary**:
**HSE wants its workforce to represent modern Britain in all of its diversity.**

Engagement and Policy Division (EPD) is at the heart of how HSE reduces risk and protects people in the workplace - it leads on HSE’s communications and business insight interventions and helps shape our policy and frontline inspection interventions.
- The strength of EPD is our ability to bring to bear our collective capability on policy, operational strategy, insight and communications, to support HSE’s prevention mission on such important issues as promoting proportionality in health and safety management and our better regulation work.-
**Job description**:

- As a Policy Advisor you will support the CLP Policy Team Leader by providing policy advice and guidance on Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (as amended).
- Additionally you will work with the team to develop a long-term strategy for the future development of CLP whilst:
- working with government lawyers
- drafting guidance, and updating web pages as required.
- drafting and contributing to responses to official correspondence; MPs letters, ministerial submissions and parliamentary questions.

**Person Specification**
- The ability to plan, monitor and continuously improve fast paced policy delivery.
- Experience of delivering policy options using data, evidence and advice on the needs of those affected by the policy.
- Ability to proactively create, maintain and promote the policy team through active engagement with key stakeholders, responding to developing CLP policy issues, often in complex contexts.
- Confidence using evaluation in the policy process to generate evidence and learning that informs decisions and delivery.
- Experience working effectively as part of a team and working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, drawing on the expertise as required.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, producing concise and accurate briefings, reports and submissions etc.

**Responsibilities**:

- Working with the CLP Policy Team Leader to identify the priority policy areas for CLP
- Reporting to the CLP team leader, the post holder will lead a small sub team which manages national and international CLP policy
- Ensuring delivery of CLP policy development to respond to current and emerging issues
- Manage and deliver the adoption of the revised editions of the United Nations Globally Harmonised System through statutory instruments.
- Overseeing implementation of future changes to the CLP Regulation delivering key priorities in line with government requirements.
- Leading of interventions and responses to work by other government departments that is dependent on CLP
- Building relationships with teams within HSE, other Government Departments, Local Authorities and Devolved Administrations.
- Leading on the engagement of stakeholders to ensure accurate and timely information is collected to inform policy development
- Working closely with the operational CLP policy team, and with other operational and policy teams across HSE to support the development of CLP.
- Identifying gaps in evidence needs to support key policy matters.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Leadership
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Delivering at Pace
- Making Effective Decisions

**Benefits**:
**We invest in our people with;**
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- Competitive rates of pay
- Access to the highly competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme to which HSE contribute 27.1%, far more than in the private sector.
- Family friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career
- 25 days annual holiday increasing to 30 days after 5 years' service, plus bank holidays and 1-day Civil Service privilege leave
- Parental leave benefits: Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.

**Allowances**Things you need to know

**Security**:- People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.**Application**
- Your statement will be assessed against the Policy Profession standards - speci