A career that's life-changing

Health, Safety and Fire Advisor

Home based (South West England and Wales)

Perm FT- 35 hours per week

Salary circa £34,000 + home working allowance + access to a lease car or paid mileage

How Action for Children works

Action for Children does what's right, does what's needed and does what works for children across the UK. Every year, our team changes the lives of 400,000 children, young people and their families.

The role

You will provide professional, expert and competent advice to all of our services in the South West of England and Wales covering all aspects of Health, Safety and Fire, including but not limited to Residential homes, Specialist schools and various office amenities. There will be a requirement of overnight stays should your travel exceed more than 4hrs commute and occasional travel to other parts of the UK to support visits with your peers.

You will deliver a high quality of customer service through regular constant communication with internal customers, achieved through site visits and audits to ensure a consistent high level of compliance.

You will manage and support the implementation of agreed strategies, including applying initiatives and approaches to support organisational change.

You will audit, inspect and risk asses all Health and Safety and Fire arrangements, reporting on areas of risk and identifying solutions and training, which you will deliver.

Essential, you will be our go to person in South West England and Wales for all things Health, Safety and Fire related, is this you? If so, read on….

The person

You will ideally have:

Membership of relevant professional body eg IOSH, IIRSM or IEMA
NEBOSH National General Certificate or equivalent
NEBOSH FIRE
Environmental Qualification
Experience in providing high quality professional and competent safety, health, environmental and wellbeing advice across a geographically dispersed organisation and at all levels of the organisation.
Experience of leading organisational wide campaigns and change programmes.
Evidence of leading accident investigation and the production of high quality investigation reports
Excellent knowledge of health and safety legislation and environmental legislation.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to influence decision makers.
Ability to analyse information, identify trends and gaps, and provide solutions to managers tracking actions to completion.
Excellent influencing skills, including the ability to present data clearly.
A driving license and relevant insurance

The post-holder will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

What are the rewards?

Flexible working, including condensed hours and remote working available
Minimum 29 days' holiday plus bank holidays
Company pension scheme, up to 7% employer match
Season ticket travel loans
Discounts at major high street retailers

We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users, therefore all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.

Action for Children is passionate about promoting equality, valuing diversity and working inclusively. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons particularly people with Disabilities and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic applicants, as these groups are currently under-represented in our workforce.

Click the Apply button below or email Neil Birkett at Neil.Birkett@actionforchildren.org.uk for more information.

Closing Date for applications is 2nd Dec 2019, Interviews will be held in Watford on 11th Dec 2019

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