Health & Safety Advisor

**Health and Safety Advisor**

**Location**: Northallerton Head Office, with the opportunity for hybrid working.

**Salary**: Scale 6 SCP 27-29, £32,247 - £34,329

**Contract**:Permanent

**Hours**: Full time, 37 hours per week, Monday - Thursday 08:30-17:00 and Friday 08:30-16:30

**Key documents**:
We are looking to appoint a Health and Safety Advisor to join our Health and Safety team, responsible for delivering high quality, credible and timely advice, and support. You will provide excellent customer service and demonstrate real value to front line services through analysing data, developing effective relationships, and troubleshooting safety challenges to deliver practical results.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Provide timely and credible advice and solutions on all Health & Safety management matters in accordance with relevant procedures, best practice, regulation, or legislation as applicable, as well as undertaking audits and investigations as required.
- You will deliver service in accordance with agreed standards including KPIs and SLAs as well as identifying and developing ongoing procedure and service improvements.
- Contribute to the development, maintenance and management of relevant frameworks, procedures and policies ensuring appropriate consultation and statutory and legal compliance.
- Provide insight and analysis on key issues and trends to assist in targeting support. - Identify and deliver education and development to line management to improve their ownership of and capability to manage health and safety matters.
- Undertake research or project work on key issues or specific initiatives as required.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, key stakeholders, unions and staff associations.

**Requirements**:
To be successful you will:

- Have a NEBOSH Certificate (or with an equivalent level of experience).
- Able to manage dynamic and fast-moving workloads with fluctuating safety priorities.
- Demonstrable experience of providing high quality, customer orientated Health & Safety advisory services to agreed SLAs and KPIs.
- Be comfortable with coaching and developing wide ranging stakeholders to resolve issues, as well as analysing data to identify trends and challenges and develop pragmatic solutions which mitigate risk.
- Excellent customer service, problem solving and interpersonal skills, including the ability to effectively communicate with a broad range of diverse and demanding customers across a variety of platforms.
- Be proficient in the use of Microsoft Office and IT systems, have a high level of attention to detail and be comfortable with producing and presenting accurate data and information.
- It is essential that you have a Full UK driving license as frequent travel is expected in this role.

**Working for us - what we can offer you**

Working for the emergency services is truly rewarding, and we want to inspire all colleagues to achieve their full potential. Everything we do has a direct impact to the service our organisation delivers, and each of us contributes to ensuring our communities continue to feel safe.

You’ll be welcomed into an organisation that is committed to ensuring everyone is treated fairly and supported equally. We value different perspectives, skills and experiences and we care about the well-being of our staff, and actively support people so they can perform to their best.

In addition, we offer a range of benefits including:

- Staff support networks
- Training and development
- Excellent government pension scheme
- Access to onsite Health and Wellbeing services
- 24 days holiday entitlement, increasing to 30 days with length of service (plus bank holidays)
- Access to discounts at major retailers
- Unison - recognised trade union
- Inclusion and Diversity support networks

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**How to apply**

**Key dates**:
**Vacancy closing**:09:00am on 21st February 2025

**Interview**: 28th February 2025