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About This Opportunity
Join the Harris Federation’s central team and play a key role in ensuring compliance and promoting a positive safety culture across our academies and shared services departments. This early‑career role offers progression into a Health & Safety Advisory position and involves coordinating audits, tracking actions, training the training programme, and providing first‑line guidance to staff. You’ll maintain accurate data, support operational teams, and help streamline processes to keep our schools safe and compliant.
Main Areas of Responsibility
Your Job Responsibilities Will Include
* Compliance Coordination & Tracking – log and track actions arising from Health & Safety audits, Fire Risk Assessments, near miss reports, inspections, and incident investigations, maintaining a clear audit trail and status dashboards.
* Chase and escalates overdue actions with respective academies and departments in line with agreed SLAs (e.g., 10 working days for near miss review).
* Maintain and update the central trackers and registers (SharePoint/Raw Data Sheets/RIDDOR Tracker or equivalent), ensuring data quality and evidence of closure.
* Carry out regular safety checks as required to ensure compliance with health and safety standards.
* Training Administration & Records – plan, organise, and book mandatory and role‑specific Health & Safety training (eLearning and in‑person), ensuring sessions align with academy needs and federation requirements.
* Manage financial aspects of training delivery, including raising purchase orders, liaising with suppliers, and confirming payment completion in line with finance procedures.
* Maintain accurate training matrices (intervals, refresher dates) and proactively remind managers and staff of upcoming expiries, file certificates and attendance records promptly.
What We Are Looking For
* Strong organisation and coordination skills; able to manage multiple trackers and deadlines.
* Strong Excel skills and data accuracy; comfortable producing charts, pivot tables and dashboards.
* Clear, professional communication – written and verbal.
* Attention to detail and a methodical approach to document control and evidence gathering.
* Demonstrate strong IT skills, with the ability to work confidently across multiple platforms and learn new systems quickly to support reporting and data integrity.
Applying for This Position
If you would like to discuss the opportunity further, or if you have any questions, please contact us via email to arrange a conversation. Before applying please ensure you download the job pack from our careers website; this will help you complete your application. We only accept applications submitted online before the closing date.
Benefits
* Excellent opportunities for continuous professional development and career progression.
* Annual performance and loyalty bonus.
* Pension scheme (Teachers’ Pension Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme) with generous employer contribution.
* 26 days’ annual leave (inclusive of our Christmas Eve closure day) plus bank holidays, rising to 27 days after 2 years’ service, or equivalent for staff on term‑time contracts.
* Harris Wellbeing Cash Plan including cover for routine and specialist healthcare.
* Employee Assistance Programme for free and confidential advice.
* Cycle to work salary sacrifice scheme.
* Wide range of shopping, leisure, and travel discounts.
* 20% off at Tapi Carpets, exclusive to Harris employees.
* Interest‑free ICT and season ticket loans.
Equal Opportunities
The Harris Federation is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates. We value the diversity of our staff and students, and everyone at the Harris Federation is equally valued and respected. We aim to be an inclusive employer that reflects the communities we serve. We are committed to providing a fair, equitable and mutually supportive learning and working environment.
Safeguarding Notice
The Harris Federation and all our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, references, an online search, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed.
Our Vision & Values
Our vision, from the start, has been to provide the structure and services needed for our schools to amount to more than the sum of their parts, and to free‑up our teachers and leaders to focus on one thing and one thing only: the outstanding education of all their pupils. Our young people and communities are at the heart of everything we do. Our core mission has always been to close the educational gap between young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers. Our ambition is one where every child in London, no matter their background, has equal access to high quality education, giving them the same opportunities and potential to succeed.
We know there are many challenges facing our young people and the communities we serve, and that’s why we need determined people like you to help us tackle those inequalities. Whilst each of our academies has their own unique cultures and values; as a whole Federation, we have four core values which are central to successfully achieving our vision: Excellence, Collaboration, Support, and Innovation. We are proud of our values because they guide us in how we work allowing us to achieve the best possible outcomes for our young people, communities, and colleagues.
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