Health and Safety Consultant
Location: Home:based, covering Scotland
Primary coverage area: Perthshire, Inverness, the Highlands and surrounding areas
Salary: GBP 50,000 : GBP 55,000 + car allowance and bonus
Joshua Robert are working with a well:established risk management and consultancy business to appoint a Health and Safety Consultant to cover a key region across Scotland.
This is a field:based role, working from home while travelling to client sites across the Scottish region. The main coverage area will include Perthshire, Inverness, the Highlands and surrounding areas, with occasional wider travel where required.
The successful candidate will provide practical, high:quality health and safety advice to a varied client base across commercial, rural and agricultural environments. This will include supporting customers with risk assessments, audits, site reviews, written reports and action plans.
The client base in this region has a strong rural and agricultural focus, so experience working with farming, agriculture, forestry, estates or similar environments would be advantageous. However, this is not essential. The key requirement is the ability to adapt your communication style, build credibility with different types of clients and provide clear, practical advice that helps customers understand and manage their risks.
The Role
As Health and Safety Consultant, you will deliver consultancy services across your region, supporting clients to comply with legislation, improve safe working practices and reduce operational risk.
You will carry out site visits and remote surveys, identify risk improvement requirements and produce clear, professional reports that set out practical recommendations, priorities and realistic timescales for action.
A key part of the role is translating health and safety legislation, technical guidance and risk information into advice that customers can understand and implement. You will need to be confident working independently, managing your own workload and maintaining strong relationships with clients and internal stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Deliver health and safety consultancy services to clients across Scotland Undertake site visits, risk assessments, audits and remote surveys Identify risk improvement requirements and provide practical recommendations Produce detailed reports, action plans and written assessments to a high professional standard Support clients in understanding their health and safety responsibilities Build and maintain strong client relationships across commercial, rural and agricultural settings Manage your own workload, appointments, travel and reporting deadlines Work in line with agreed service levels, quality standards and performance targets Keep up to date with health and safety legislation, best practice and industry guidance About You
You will be an experienced Health and Safety professional with a strong technical grounding and the confidence to advise a broad range of clients.
You may already be working in a consultancy role, or you could be an experienced H and S Advisor or Manager looking to move into a more client:facing, field:based position.
You will need to be comfortable working independently, travelling across a regional patch and communicating with different types of businesses, from commercial organisations through to rural and agricultural clients.
Candidate Requirements
Experienced Health and Safety professional CertIOSH status as a minimum NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent health and safety qualification Working towards NEBOSH Diploma, Level 6 Diploma or Chartered status would be desirable Strong knowledge of current health and safety legislation, risk management and loss prevention practices Experience providing health and safety advice across commercial environments Agriculture, farming, forestry, rural estates or agri:business experience would be advantageous Strong written communication skills, with the abili