Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Rugby, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Safety & Resilience Officer an initial 8 week contract on a rate of £28 Umbrella per hour OR £17.59 PAYE per hour. This role will be hybrid working with 4 days onsite per week.
Responsibilities:
- Support and audit local managers’ health and safety management and liaise with the appropriate manager to ensure that issues are addressed within an appropriate time frame.
- Create action plans in response to audits and monitor delivery.
- Investigate Town Hall incidents and audit incident investigations for non-Town Hall incidents. Maintain an incident record database; analyse incident data to produce quarterly and annual reports for Management meetings.
- Develop and deliver competent effective and efficient health and safety training to staff (internal and external)
- Support Comms in maintaining an H & S folder on the extranet.
- Conduct regular inspections and audits of organisation’s work sites and activities
- Work in partnership with the Safety & Resilience Team to develop best practice, such as monitoring of behaviours and cultures, while ensuring that we can still get the job done (risk aware not risk averse).
- To support the Safety and Resilience Manager with regard to business continuity and emergency planning to ensure resilience of the unit including supporting Managers reviewing and testing of BC plans locally and supporting RBC in cooperation with the Warwickshire Local Resilience Forum.
- Provide appropriate health, safety, or welfare management information, including quarterly newsletter.
- Support risk assessment work across the Organisation.
- Respond to employees and Trade Union health and safety complaints/concerns as appropriate.
- Administrate for and run the 6-weeekly H & S coordinator meetings, or similar if appropriate.
- Support Corporate Property in fire safety measures. Coordinate fire drills, including review and lessons learnt. Create and maintain Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans in liaison with local managers.
- Where appropriate liaise with the HSE or other relevant enforcing authority.
- Horizons scan for future changes in health and safety legislation and maintain CPD.
- Work towards the NEBOSH Diploma with a view to qualifying at the earliest opportunity.
- To support and participate in a response to major emergencies.
- Collaborate on health and safety projects as requested.
- Demonstrate environmental awareness and environmental responsibility.
- Any other reasonable duties as requested by your manager, in line with your skills and knowledge.
- The post holders will line manage health and safety coordinators.
- To set an example to others in excellence in health and safety at work.
- Responsible for authorising expenditure and monitoring expenditure against agreed budget for personal protective equipment and health and safety training.
- A responsibility for ensuring that information collated and used for performance monitoring is accurate in conjunction with the Organisations Data Quality Strategy.
Essential Skills:
- Extensive experience within Health & Safety Management
- Ability to influence champion and enforce excellence in health, safety and welfare at work. Understand the need for political awareness and sensitivity and the importance of building and maintaining sound working relationships.
- Competent effective and efficient health and safety trainer.
- Nebosh Certificate Holder, but with a willingness to work towards NEBOSH Diploma
- Communication skills to deal with a range of people often using persuasion skills, including computer literate with a drive to support the digitalisation agenda.
- A commitment to work within our CAN DO values
Desirable Skills:
- Ability to develop and deliver training to staff (internal and external).
- Interest in developing an understanding of and assisting in emergency planning and business continuity.
- Experience of preparing reports and statistical information in a clear and concise manner
- Able to inspire commitment, enthusiasm and positive attitude in others to achieve objectives. Ability to involve and encourage others in finding solutions. Risk aware not risk adverse.
- Capable of handling heavy and diverse workload.
- Coronavirus – Covid Secure and recovery
- Operational Waste Services Safety Management Experience
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.