Health and Safety Manager
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
Closing Date: Monday 4th November 2024 @ 9am
Interview Date: 14th November 2024 – in person interview
Providing safe homes for our customers, and safe workspaces for our colleagues, is central to everything we’re doing at bdht.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Health & Safety Manager to join us to take the strategic and operational lead providing a comprehensive, high quality, customer focused Health and Safety and Compliance service to bdht properties, customers, staff and stakeholders
The role
Leading the compliance team effectively, you will work closely with colleagues in all teams facilitating engagement with health and safety activities across the organisation. You’ll use various channels such as briefings, presentations, training and collaborative workshop sessions to ensure everyone understands their responsibilities. You will coordinate Occupational Health assessments for staff and ensure all aspects of the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974), Building Safety Act and other Health and Safety legislation are met within legal, financial, time and policy constraints.
You will assess any new and changing Regulation, Legislation and Approved Codes of Practice; understanding the risk posed by changes and communicate these clearly to senior managers. Additionally, you will take charge of the internal audit process through the organisation of a program of audits, investigations, reviews and monitoring against health and safety standards in both a planned and reactive manner.
About you
Excellent communication is as key to this role as your technical knowledge and expertise. You will work with a wide range of people and therefore must be able to present information in a concise and accessible way.
You will hold a NEBOSH General Certificate or IOSH equivalent. (Or willing to gain required qualification levels within the first 6-months). You will also hold a relevant technical professional qualification i.e. full membership to the IFE / IFSM / CABE / RICS / CIOB and NEBOSH fire safety certificate FC1 / FC2 or equivalent.
Experience in occupational Health and Safety of corporate office-based staff and operational labour workforce would be preferable.
With good attention to detail, you will set and maintain high performance standards and have a track record of ongoing professional development and staying up-to-date with industry best practices.
You will have the ability to work independently and proactively, taking ownership of your own workload. You will also have good written and oral communication skills to include familiarisation of various ICT packages.
The post-holder will hold a current full driving licence and will need access to a vehicle.
What we can offer in return:
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32 days annual leave plus bank holidays and holiday buy back scheme
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Agile Working
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Pension Scheme - bdht offers a Defined Contribution pension, administered by the Social Housing Pension Scheme
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Employee Assistance Programme
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Mental Health First Aiders
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Healthcare Cash Back Scheme
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Retail Discounts
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Free Parking and Free Refreshments
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Life insurance is also available to members of the pension scheme
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Casual mileage allowance
Bdht reserves the right to close vacancies before the stated closing date where the volume of applications is extremely high.
The Company
BDHT employs 170 people and is dedicated to providing excellent services to our customers by having excellent staff. We are very much a learning organisation. We have a major commitment to identifying transferable skills within our employees and creating opportunities for individuals to grow.
BDHT is a people based organisation and our people are actively encouraged to 'bring their whole selves to work'. The things that are important to you become important to us too.
We believe in our people, and actively support them based upon three core themes: ‘Look after yourself’, ‘Look after your colleagues’ and ‘Look after the business’.
We are a great employer who pays fairly and has excellent terms and conditions. But above all we absolutely recognise that good performance is linked to happy staff, so we actively encourage fun and expect that it is part of the normal working day.
Our Values
Listening
Fair
Honest
Respect
Our Benefits
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