Job summary
Are you a health and safety professional with experience of working within a large complex corporate environment?
Do you enjoy developing and implementing policies to promote safety?
Are you confident in leading and managing others to achieve business objectives?
If so, we would love to hear from you!�
This is a fantastic opportunity to deliver and maintain a strong health and safety culture whilst maintaining compliance. You will also have exposure to a wide range of stakeholders both external and internal, enabling you to build relationships across the organisation.
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.
Job description
We are looking for a pragmatic and confident individual to�lead our small and dynamic health and safety team, where you will work in a fast paced and varied environment where no two days are the same. You will need to have the capability to work under your own initiative, ensuring that you provide a high-quality service which is delivered on time and taking ownership of key decisions that need to be made.��This role is pivotal to ensuring compliance with health and safety legislation across the RAF Air Cadet estate.
The Safety and Assurance Department is responsible for ensuring safety support and advice to all elements of the RAFAC organisation, across all functional safety domains. The successful applicant must be able to challenge risk mindset to improve the safety culture, making RAFAC a safer organisation. The post holder is required to maintain a safety assurance function that provides assurance to the Comdt that RAFAC is compliant with all legislation, MOD policy and Command directives.
1. Direct and supervise 3 x D Grade Ministry of Defence Civil Service Safety Assurance Advisors in the provision of statutory HS&EP advice and guidance to all RAFAC formations and in the delivery of a tri-ennial regional assurance programme.
2. Direct and supervise SO2 Training Assurance Advisor. in the delivery of advice and assurance to training activities, including Cadet Residential Training Centres and delivery.
3. Direct and supervise HEO OME Assurance in the delivery of OME assurance activity.
4. Direct and supervise WO(MT) in the delivery of advice, support and assurance of MT and Road Safety Matters.
5. Represent Comdt RAFAC to external military and civilian organisations, in relation to Functional Safety matters.
6. Enable RAFAC management of Functional Safety risk through PARMIS. Ensure training and guidance to key staff and ongoing support. Maintain an accurate risk picture across the Functional Safety domains.
7. Deliver bi-annual Functional Safety Steering Groups (FSSG). Supervise and collate content, delivery and promulgation of RODs. Prepare and deliver HS&EP content. Present accurate and comprehensive Functional Safety picture to Comdt and RAFAC SLT. Lead on Functional Safety tasks arising from the meeting. Track progress of decisions.
8. Manage Comdt RAFAC�s engagement with AOC 22 Group on Functional Safety matters. Compile submissions for 22 Group FSSG and Functional Safety Alignment Meeting (FSAM), based on evidence from RAFAC FSSG.
9. Coordinate with 2FTS safety representatives to create Total Safety picture for RAFAC.
10. Advise Comdt and SLT on the management of Functional Safety risks and issues, enabling and supporting collaborative solutions, as they arise.
11. Contribute to the enablement of national events by ensuring provision of SME advice to event organisers. Provide SME support to COS in decision briefs. Provide 2nd Party Assurance of national events.
12. Represent Safety and Assurance pillar to RAFAC SLT as required.
Person specification
You are a proactive and flexible individual with excellent experience of health and safety within a complex corporate environment.
You are an effective communicator who can tailor your communication to suit different audiences, influencing and explaining complex information in easy-to-understand ways. You will have strong leadership skills, the ability to lead teams and projects, ensuring colleagues and stakeholders have a clear understanding of objectives.
You understand your own level of responsibility and empower others to make decisions where appropriate, presenting recommendations in a timely manner outlining the consideration of other options, costs, benefits, and risks.
It�is important that you are organised, have great attention to detail and are experienced at working to tight deadlines, with the skills to efficiently balance multiple priorities.�You�re resilient, with the ability to challenge and influence at all levels, confidently pushing back when required.�You can work calmly under pressure and thrive within a diverse and varied workload.
Essential Criteria:
Candidate must have excellent IT skills and a working knowledge of Health & Safety, with the ability to apply sound rational judgement and advice to staff.
You should�possess�the ability to reference Health & Safety publications�to�achieve a suitable outcome.
You must hold the following qualification:
13. NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent)
You must hold the following qualifications (or equivalent), be currently working towards, or willing to undertake within the first 6 months of taking up post.
14. STS Introduction to Environmental Protection
15. Occurrence Investigator Training
16. Lead Auditor (Safety) Qualification
Qualifications
NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent)
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
17. Leadership
18. Communicating and Influencing
19. Delivering at Pace
20. Making Effective Decisions
21. Seeing the Big Picture
Benefits
Alongside your salary of �43,080, Ministry of Defence contributes �11,631 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
22. Learning and development tailored to your role
23. An environment with flexible working options
24. A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
25. A with an average employer contribution of 27%
Working alongside military and civilian colleagues, you are part of a forward-looking organisation with inclusive workplace policies, excellent career prospects and a job that makes a difference.
Benefits for MOD Civil Servants include:
26. 25 days paid annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years� service.
27. Highly Competitive Pension Scheme.
28. Personal and professional development of skills.
29. A working culture that encourages inclusion and diversity, and a dynamic and innovative working environment.
30. Access to the Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), a free service that assists you with achieving a productive, healthy environment that is conducive to a healthy lifestyle.
31. An excellent range of family-friendly benefits, for example, enhanced parental, and adoption leave.
32. 6 days special leave per year which can be used for volunteering activities.
33. Ability to roll over up to 10 days leave per year.
34. Local site benefits such as free parking, on-site gym facilities.
Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working.� This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.
The post does not offer relocation expenses.External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.
Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.
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