Job Category : Human Resources – General
Location :Plymouth City Council
Hours Per Week :37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £190.11
The post holder will provide a professional, practical and comprehensive Health
and Safety advisory and support service for the Council to achieve a continued
improvement in health and safety performance and service delivery.
The post holder will seek to improve performance through the implementation
of health and safety management systems, including ISO 45001, and other
current standards and legislation.
The post holder will seek to mitigate any risks and ensure that there is a safe
working environment.
Key
accountabilities
and Role
measures
Role outcomes
• Provide expert advice, support and training
on all aspects of health and safety.
• Support the Head of Health & Safety in the
development of an annual work plan in line
with the needs of the Council and statutory
requirements.
• Generate income for PCC in line with our
service level agreement.
• Ensure the Council is made aware of new
applicable legislation and guidance as it arises.
Investigate health and safety incidents,
including Serious Incident to identify relevant
root causes, risk management strategies and
support the sharing of lessons learnt.
• Deliver interventions aimed at mitigating the
risk to the health and safety of employees’
and others and improving the outcomes in
relation to staff and visitor safety.
• Delivery of designated aspects of the Health
& Safety business plan within the allocate
Key activities
• Work closely with the Head of Culture and Employee Engagement, trade
unions, Head of Health and Safety, HR Culture Partners Head of HR
Consultancy, HR Consultants and L&D Consultant.
• Provide a comprehensive Health & Safety consultancy offer to the Council.
• Co-create and develop of Health and Safety programmes, utilising
appropriate Interventions.
• Develop and make available a range of learning materials to support
competence of our employees and compliance with health and safety
legislation.
• Monitor and report on health and safety training compliance data, escalating
areas of concern to relevant internal stakeholders.
• Work with managers to address complex and sensitive situations at both an
individual and organisational levels in a diplomatic and professional manner.
• Ensure that managers and employees are aware of their responsibilities.
• Coach Managers to undertake risk assessments and other Health & Safety
activities which deliver excellent results.
Essential
qualifications/
knowledge
• A Health and Safety management qualifications at degree level or equivalent
• Graduate Member of ISOH
• Excellent knowledge business continuity framework
• Knowledge of e-capabilities for H&S services and experience in
commissioning specific piece of work and evaluating the effectiveness of the
H &S activities
• Knowledge of safety improvement methodology
• Demonstrable working knowledge of Health and Safety frameworks
• A comprehensive knowledge of current health and safety legislation,
management and standards
• Knowledge of the HSE’s Management Standards and the ability to carry out
Stress Risk Assessments
• Understanding of the structure, issues ,pressures, influences and legislation
affecting local government
• A comprehensive knowledge and understanding of all aspects of health,
safety and risk management.
Desirable
• Membership of a professional H&S body e.g. IOSH, Chartered Graduate
qualifications/
knowledge
level
• Post graduate or professional qualification in safety management and/or risk
management
• Senior Health and Safety Practitioner
• Knowledge of working in a complex organisation
• Knowledge of using Health and Safety quality improvement tools to maintain
a safe environments.
Essential
experience
• Ability to commission Health & safety interventions as when needed at team
or organisational wide level.
• Facilitation of Health and Safety workshops and tools to create a
performance culture.
• Operating as a seasoned Health and Safety Advisor assisting leaders,
managers with resolving health and safety issues through blended
intervention.
• Experience of providing Health and Safety in Local Government
• Experience of development, maintenance and implementation of H&S related
policies and procedures
• Experience of dealing with stress cases and the ability to carry out full DSE
assessments.
• Experience of delivering training on general health and safety and specific
subject areas such as risk assessment –interpreting legislation
• Experience of achieving improvement of H&S compliance
• Experience of auditing, accident investigation and risk assessment
Desirable
experience
• Experience of using Health and Safety assessment tools to diagnose Health &
Safety related issues.
Essential skills • Leading the design, development and maintaining of the digital learning
platform, including producing the digital Health and Safety content, videos
and content writing
• Confident and effective communicator, strong verbal and report writing
• Ability to interpret and provide authoritative advice on health and safety and
risk management issues
• Ability to prioritise work to ensure tasks are completed within time
constraints.