Job Description
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Location: Edinburgh / Bellshill / Inverness / Irvine or Thurso (with Hybrid Working)
At Cairn Housing Association, we’re passionate about creating great homes, delivering great services, and offering great opportunities for our people.
Cairn is currently recruiting for Health & Safety Officer and Compliance Officer roles as part of our strong commitment to Health and Safety legal compliance and the safety of our staff and tenants across the Association. These are varied and fast-paced roles and ideal for someone who enjoys being visible and influencing a positive, proactive, safety culture.
Reporting to the Health and Safety (H&S) Manager, this role will be responsible for leading on H&S initiatives across Cairn. This will include our corporate H&S strategy, including policy and procedure development, risk management, carrying out H&S audits, incident reviews, training, project work and administration. The role will work with internal and external stakeholders in a collaborative approach to develop safe systems of work and processes based on legislation and best practice.
Key Responsibilities – What You’ll Do:
Policies, Procedures and Safe Systems of Work Development
Establish, review and update policy, procedure and processes
Carry out research, implementation and communication of these areas in line with regulatory requirements and best practice
Risk Management
Advise and support staff to reduce H&S risk and develop a proactive H&S culture
Review, develop and implement H&S risk assessments using a collaborative approach
KPI Reporting and Data Management
Support the H&S manager with accurate data and statistics to develop H&S reports
Record H&S information on relevant H&S systems and provide data/reporting against KPI’s
Auditing, Inspections and Assurance
Administer and carry out auditing and inspections as required and root cause analysis / trends and corrective actions
Maintain information on inspections and audit and RAG processing / reporting
Training and Development
Work with our Organisational Development team to identify H&S training needs and develop materials
Deliver training to staff in a range of areas as required
Incident reporting, management and investigation
Review incident reports and feedback as required
Input into incident management, carry out incident investigations and causal analysis
Other
Support and carry out H&S projects as required
Undertake administrative duties related to H&S management
Record budgetary spend and report to the H&S Manager
Requirements – What We’re Looking For:
NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent as a minimum and preferably NEBOSH Diploma or willing to achieve this level
IOSH membership at professional grades or willing to achieve this level
Comprehensive knowledge of H&S law and legislation
Extensive knowledge and experience of working at Officer level in a H&S service within an equivalent sized employer
Experience of a broad range of H&S areas relevant to the role, including risk assessments and high-risk areas such as the ‘big 7’ and other relevant risk areas for a Registered Social Landlord
Demonstratable project management skills
Ability to support our staff across a Scotland wide operation
IT Literate in the use of IT programs and health and safety systems and proficient in Microsoft Office
Personal Attributes
Ability to assess and prioritise a varied workload effectively
Strong negotiator and influencer with interpersonal skills
Collaborative working to ensure effective outcomes
Critical listening skills and an ability to have challenging conversations
Experience Required
Developing and implementing H&S management systems
Undertaking and reviewing risk assessments
H&S inspection and auditing
H&S incident investigation and reporting writing
Training of staff
Project delivery and informed decision making
Gathering, analysing and reporting key H&S data and KPI’s
Employee Benefits: Why Join Cairn?
We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can thrive. Here’s what you can expect:
Flexible and hybrid working options.
Health and wellbeing support.
Tech and cycle-to-work schemes.
Compassionate leave and more.
We value diversity and warmly welcome applications from all communities. Cairn is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.
Application Process:
Visit Cairn website to apply – (please download and complete an application form).
Please note, we do not accept CVs.
For full details, please download the job description from our website.
Closing Date: Wednesday 1st April at 12 noon.
Interviews will be held in Inverness on Thursday 16th April and Edinburgh on Friday 17th April
Cairn Housing Association – A registered Scottish Charity (SCO16647)
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