Health & Safety Business Partner - North (Durham, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow)

Health & Safety Business Partner - North (Durham, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow)

Job no: 545867
Work type: Full time
Site: Redditch
Categories: Central Support
Location: County Durham, Gateshead CR, Northumberland, Teesside, Tyne and Wear, Inverclyde, South Ayrshire, East Ayrshire, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, North Ayrshire, Banffshire, Berwickshire, Bute, Caithness, Clackmannashire, Dumfries and Galloway, Dumfriesshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife, Glasgow, Highland, Inverness-shire, Inverurie, Kincardineshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian, Moray, Nairnshire, North Lanarkshire, Orkney, Peeblesshire, Perth and Kinross, Peterhead, Renfrewshire, Ross & Cromarty, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Shetland Isles, South Lanarkshire, Stirlingshire, Sutherland, West Dunbartonshire, West Lothian, Wigtonshire, National
Salary: Up to £38,000pa plus Company Car, Aligned Company Benefits & Bonus
Business Area: Halfords Support Centre

Key Responsibilities

• Support a robust and sustainable health and safety culture across multiple sites, whilst overcoming cultural and behavioural challenges.
• Monitor and steer progress whilst identifying the impact of safety processes and practices, ensuring these are implemented to the highest possible standards.
• Build rapport and strengthen relationships across the Halfords Group to empower & promote colleagues to take ownership of health & safety.
• Continually challenge management and associated colleagues to stay focused on business-critical risks.
• Proactively assist with the development, implementation, monitoring, and review of all health & safety strategies, policies, standards, and procedures throughout the Halfords Group.
• Support and play an active role in delivering the Halfords Group Health & Safety Roadmap.
• Undertake audits and workplace/area inspections to proactively identify where health & safety management practices and overall standards can be improved.
• Provide written reports by way of inspection, visible safety leadership (VSL), and monthly summaries where necessary to assist Halfords in implementing solutions to improve its overall health & safety performance.
• Undertake investigations for all accidents, incidents, significant events, and safety concerns as required to identify both root cause and preventative measures to prevent reoccurrence.
• Provide both competent and expert advice on all health & safety matters that arise when called upon.
• Prioritise and respond to safety concerns identified from colleagues, contractors, and visitors who enter any Halfords Group operation.
• Liaise with enforcement agencies in conjunction with both the Senior Health & Safety Business Partner and Group Head of Health & Safety.
• Contribute to the design, development, production, and delivery of training materials including risk assessments, safe working procedures, manual handling, traffic management, wellbeing & welfare, vehicle operations, housekeeping standards, PUWER, LOLER, etc., ensuring that appropriate records are kept, and quality of content meets the specific requirements of the Group.
• Assist the Group Head of Health & Safety and Senior Health & Safety Business Partner in maintaining effective working relationships with Halfords Directors, Managers, Colleagues, Trade Unions, Partners, Contractors, and all other relevant stakeholders.
• Identify, promote, and raise awareness of ‘Good Practice’ throughout the Halfords Group.
• Liaise and support the Halfords Group on all matters concerned or connected with Employee and Public Liability whilst maintaining the strictest confidentiality at all times.
• Assist management and departmental heads with site improvement plans to aid continuous improvement in all matters related to health & safety.
• Support and participate in department, corporate, individual, and sponsored projects.
• Represent the Halfords Group in a positive manner.
• Ensure you maintain a healthy and safe working life balance whilst working for the Halfords Group.

Key Skills & Experience Requirements

ESSENTIAL

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience within a health & safety advisor or business partner position.
• Experience within a multi-site and business function role.
• Proven record of promoting a positive health & safety performance culture.
• Ability to influence, persuade and negotiate with both internal & external stakeholders at a management level.
• Good understanding of PUWER.
• Good understanding of LOLER.
• Flexible and able to work independently.
• Strong organisational & planning skills.

DESIRABLE

• NEBOSH Diploma or Safety Diploma / NVQ 6.
• NEBOSH Construction Certificate.
• Automotive sector experience.
• Experience in behavioural based safety.
• Self-Driven to succeed.
• Claims defensibility trained /or considerable experience.
• Experience in manual handling.
• Experience in fire risk assessments.
• First Aid trained.
• IOSH Membership (Associate / Member).
• Ability to embrace and drive change.
• Sets high expectations for themselves and others.
• Effectively prioritises and meets timeframes set.
• Listens to others and treats all individuals with respect.
• Builds and maintains effective relationships.
• Confident and skilled communicator (written & verbal).
• Excellent working knowledge of health & safety legislation.
• A self-reliant and self-motivated individual.
• Leadership capability – leads by example.