Job Description:
Health & Safety Officer – Care Services
Salary: £38,400 – £42,000
Contract Type: Permanent, Full‑Time
Location: Staines. Hybrid role with a focus on multisite visits, with responsibility for managing your own diary and travel. Role specific car will be included in the benefits package
About this role
This role plays a key part in keeping people safe across our UK Care Services. As a Health & Safety Officer, you’ll support multiple locations, helping managers meet their legal responsibilities and embed a strong, practical safety culture. It’s a varied, hands‑on role with plenty of autonomy and the opportunity to make a real impact.
The role requires regular travel across our network of Care Homes and Retirement Villages, with a strong concentration of sites from the Midlands through to the South of England.
What You’ll Be Doing
1. Supporting Care Home and Richmond Village Managers with day‑to‑day health & safety advice
2. Carrying out audits and monitoring compliance with internal policies and legislation
3. Investigating incidents and completing reportable injury investigations within agreed timescales
4. Supporting the implementation of effective control measures following risk assessments
5. Producing clear, factual written reports and escalating risks where appropriate
6. Contributing to H&S campaigns, policy reviews, and continuous improvement activity
7. Working closely with Learning & Development and the wider People team
What We’re Looking For
8. NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent) with experience in a practical health & safety role
9. Confidence working independently across multiple sites and competing priorities
10. Strong working knowledge of UK health & safety legislation and best practice
11. Clear written and verbal communication skills
12. Ability to influence, advise, and challenge constructively without direct authority
13. A practical, organised, and professional approach to health & safety
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
14. Flexible Holidays scheme: 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with the option to buy or sell.
15. Environmental – Electric Car Scheme and Payroll giving scheme.
16. Financial – Wagestream, Discounts platform, Loan and saving schemes and Enhanced Pension Scheme.
17. Mental and Physical - Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind, Health Assessment, Family mental health line.
18. Social: Volunteering days and Be You at Bupa Network
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.