What's involved with this role: Interim Health & Safety Advisor - HR Reference no: Bolton 0008 7C07 / 1 Pay Rate: up to £30 per hour PAYE depending on experience 37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for 2-3 months City: BOLTON Assist in the delivery of the corporate health, safety and resilience service. Focusing primarily on health and safety related tasks. Advise and manage a range of compliance functions which relate to the management of assets owned or occupied by the Council, including duties under the Equalities Act 2010, Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and elements of Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and other relevant legislation. Support internal teams to ensure that the Council’s buildings comply with the current legislation. Coordinate delivery of statutory obligations, H&S and compliance with key stakeholders across the estate – including both the operational, educational and commercial portfolio. Key Responsibilities Ensure the Council complies with its regulatory requirements and is providing its services in a quality assured way Develop and embed quality assurance practices across the FM function. Keep up to date with, and understand, relevant legislation and regulations and their application. Contribute to robust and effective compliance and quality assurance controls within the organisation. Perform risk assessments and review those delivered by others to understand the level, significance, and scope of risk. Monitor delivery of risk assessment action plans. Review and challenge compliance across services to drive up quality assurance standards and develop action plans to improve performance. Monitor compliance with legislation, regulations and internal policies ensuring findings are recorded and flagged and non-compliance escalated so that issues can be rectified. Provide training and awareness to employees on not only the regulations and their application but also the impact to the organisation if these are not complied with. Where required, to assist in the organisation of supplementary training. Provide key advice and guidance in all statutory compliance related matters, with specific focus on Legionella and Fire Risk management. NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do no t offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items: Qualifications: Level 3 qualification in Health and Safety (eg NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent) or willing to work towards Knowledge: An awareness of the requirements in providing an excellent customer service Experience: Relevant experience of working in a health, safety and resilience environment / Engineering / Building Construction Experience of working as part of a team Skills & Abilities: Excellent computer skills including experience in the use of Microsoft Office functionality and inputting/exporting data from systems Ability to carry out research Ability to work using own initiative and deliver tasks within deadlines/timescales Ability to communicate effectively ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please