Health & Safety Advisor (Education)

ZipRecruiter; Leicester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Job Description

GBR Recruitment are delighted to be working in partnership with an outsourced Health & Safety consultancy practice, recruiting for a NEBOSH certificated, time served H&S Advisor, to support education sector clients with ensuring they are fully H&S compliant, plus implementing & rolling out H&S processes, as well as carrying out periodic audits (for schools, colleges, universities), plus supporting other built environment clients (mainly education, but also on behalf of some commercial & retail clients). This is an external H&S support consultancy role for clients that don't have an internal H&S department or a H&S professional on their educational sites. It is a highly interesting & varied role, that would suit a H&S professional that has worked or is working in a multi-disciplinary construction / building services practice or within a H&S consultancy providing external H&S services / solutions. This role will involve UK wide travel to customer sites, so you must be happy to be on the road regularly (most days) as this is more field than office based.

If you are NEBOSH qualified, experienced in RAMS, H&S process roll out, H&S compliance measures, property H&S, Fire Safety, Asbestos evaluation / control, Legionella management, H&S auditing, plus using cloud based H&S platforms then this is the ideal role for you.

The Role:

1. Deliver comprehensive Health & Safety Management support to educational & other end using sector clients, as their subject matter expert.
2. Supporting clients to ensure their procedures & working practices are safe & comply with legislation and guidance.
3. Undertake thorough health & safety management audits, producing remedial action plans across a range of sectors, 80% of the time within education & 20% across retail, charity & construction environments.
4. Support in the development of local H&S policies, plus procedures.
5. Carry out RAMS.
6. Produce high quality H&S reports regarding hazard identification, accident investigations, plus funding applications.
7. Support of property related health & safety matters including Fire Safety, Asbestos, plus Legionella Management.
8. The delivery and development of a range of CPD accredited H&S training.
9. Scrutinise Educational Visits in line with Outdoor Educational Advisors Panel Guidance.
10. Liaise & support with internal colleagues on matters of health & safety.
11. Maintain cloud based H&S systems for e-learning & incident reporting.

Key skills and experience:

1. Experience within a similar outsourced health and safety role.
2. Experience of working with schools, colleges & universities would be ideal, plus other built environment surroundings.
3. You will hold a minimum of a NEBOSH Certificate qualification.
4. Ideally you will have experience using H&S cloud-based systems.
5. You must be a professional communicator at all levels.

This role could suit someone working as a Health & Safety Advisor, H&S Manager, H&S Consultant, H&S Coordinator, H&S Officer or similar H&S roles, with similar responsibilities. Interviews to take place immediately. Apply today.