What you’ll be doing
as a Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor
1. Site visits, including assurance and engagement – risk based with quantity confirmed depending on business area and requirement. This is a hybrid role, where it is expected that you will be out on site 3 to 4 days a week. Therefore, the successful candidate will need to hold a full, clean UK driving licence.
2. Supporting the delivery of the Health, Safety and Wellbeing Strategy, including leading on/project management of work packages, briefing stakeholders etc to required deadlines.
3. Monitor performance against the Safety, Health and Wellbeing strategy and objectives, system, standards, processes and procedures
4. Carry out relevant site HSW assurance to highlight good practice, risks and non-compliance
5. Advise stakeholders (internal and external) and contractors on HSW matters including compliance with applicable legislation, industry best practice and Thames Water Management System, Standards, Processes, and Procedures
6. Advise and support stakeholders carry out incident investigations
7. Opportunity to support high-risk incident investigations
8. Verify incidents, actions and safety observations being tracked to closure in a timely manner to avoid becoming overdue
9. Support stakeholders identify training requirements including reviewing and monitoring of Team Skills Register/Training Compliance etc
10. Support in the delivery of toolbox talks, inductions and briefings regarding HSW campaigns or concerns
11. Proactively engage with stakeholders to motivate teams to report safety observations and improvements to raise standards on site
12. Support individual ad-hoc projects as directed and in line with current business needs and priorities
13. Performing face fit testing as required
Location: Across Thames Water patch
36 hours a week
What you should bring to the role
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need is:
14. NEBOSH Certificate OR extensive experience in operational environments
15. Full UK Driving licence
16. Excellent communication, written and verbal skills with a demonstrable ability to communicate with all levels of an organisation
17. A passion for Health, Safety, and Wellbeing, leading by example
18. Fully competent at using the appropriate company IT systems and office software
19. In-depth understanding of UK Safety, Health and Wellbeing Legislation
Additional skills and experiences would be great to have/bring:
20. Technical knowledge of a related or operational industry e.g. utilities, infrastructure, transport, manufacturing or construction, is advantageous, though not essential
21. Understanding of process safety, CDM and or working in the highway
22. Understanding of Human and Organisational Performance (HOP)
What’s in it for you?
23. Competitive salary up to £50,000 per annum, depending on experience
24. Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
25. Car allowance
26. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
27. Generous Pension Scheme through AON
28. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.