Health & Safety Officer
On-going contract - Inside IR35
Rugby

About the role
Assist with planning, implementation and monitoring the effectiveness of our Health and Safety policy and procedures. Manage the Health and Safety Coordinators; DSE assessors; Fire Marshalls; and First Aiders, championing their work to ensure competent, efficient, and productive delivery of objectives in line with prioritised health and safety cultural improvements

Responsibilities

Support and audit local managers' health and safety management and liaise with the appropriate manager to ensure that issues are addressed within an appropriate time frame.
Create action plans in response to audits and monitor delivery.
Investigate Town Hall incidents and audit incident investigations for non-Town
Hall incidents. Maintain an incident record database; analyse incident data to produce quarterly and annual reports for Management meetings.
Develop and deliver competent effective and efficient health and safety training to staff (internal and external)
Support Comms in maintaining an H & S folder on the extranet.
Conduct regular inspections and audits of council's work sites and activities
Work in partnership with the Safety & Resilience Team to develop best practice, such as monitoring of behaviours and cultures, while ensuring that we can still get the job done (risk aware not risk averse).
Qualifications and knowledge

Extensive experience within Health & Safety Management
Competent effective and efficient health and safety trainer.
Nebosh Certificate Holder, but with a willingness to work towards NEBOSH Diploma
Communication skills to deal with a range of people often using persuasion skills, including computer literate with a drive to support the digitalisation agenda.
If interested in the role, please contact me at or give me a call on (phone number removed)