The role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to deliver and embed corporate health and safety management across our diverse portfolio? If so we want to hear from you!
About Southwark:
Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a Council, we are successful, passionate and forward thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise, which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do. If you want to make a difference at a local level, apply to Southwark Council today.
The Role:
Southwark Council are seeking an enthusiastic Health and Safety Managers, with wide ranging skills and experience to join our centralised team and help transform Health and Safety across the whole of the Council.
Key to this role is the ability to build strong and collaborative relationships with people across all areas of the Council, your inclusive approach will really engage with people and help us drive our new health and safety team forward. Your knowledge, skills, personality and gravitas will enable you to respond to challenges through negotiation and influence, gaining the support and confidence of heads of departments, stakeholders and external parties.
You must be able to demonstrate sound management experience in H&S processes and procedures in accordance with recognised standards and have a real appetite for change, ongoing improvement and transformation. You will be resilient, pragmatic and confident in decision making, an effective problem solver, self-motivated and able to identify and make recommendations for service improvements.
You will enjoy presenting to mixed groups and are experienced in the delivery of training - for example IOSH recognised health and safety training packages.
About you:
Ideally you will have a degree or equivalent qualification in health and safety management discipline, hold or be working towards Chartered Membership of the Institute of Occupation Safety and Health and have considerable experience of delivering health and safety in the public sector or a similar environment. Previous experience working within the education or care sector would be advantageous.
Benefits and more information:
From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. You will benefit from 28 days basic annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 36 days with continuous service, a generous local government salary related pension, cycle to work and cycle loan scheme, season-ticket loan, confidential wellbeing and counselling support. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Additional details
For informal enquiries, please contact Ben Hewitt, Head of Health & Safety at ben.hewitt@southwark.gov.uk
Recruitment timetable
Closing date: Friday 21 April 2023 at 23:59
Shortlisting date: Monday 24 April 2023
Interview date: Wednesday 3 May 2023
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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