Our client is seeking a dedicated Health and Safety Advisor to join their team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to provide expert advice on health and safety principles, systems, and processes within a leading education provider. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in fostering a positive culture of health and safety performance, ensuring the welfare of employees, students, and others.
Health and Safety Advisor
Salary: Competitive and based on experience
Location: Coventry
Keywords: Health and Safety, Advisor, Risk Management, Compliance, Training
Our client is seeking a dedicated Health and Safety Advisor to join their team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to provide expert advice on health and safety principles, systems, and processes within a leading education provider. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in fostering a positive culture of health and safety performance, ensuring the welfare of employees, students, and others.
- Opportunity to work within a leading education provider
- Key role in promoting health and safety standards
- Chance to develop specialist knowledge in various areas
What you'll do:
As a Health and Safety Advisor, your role will be pivotal in maintaining the highest standards of health and safety within the organisation. You will be responsible for providing expert advice on a range of health and safety matters, developing strong relationships with key stakeholders to encourage proactive consideration of risks. Your ability to monitor standards through audits, inspections, and risk assessments will be crucial in this role. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to develop specialist knowledge in various areas such as machinery, lasers, radiation, biological and chemical safety.
- Provide proactive, professional advice on health and safety matters
- Develop relationships with key stakeholders to encourage high standards of legal compliance
- Monitor health and safety standards through audits, inspections, and risk assessments
- Support the implementation of health and safety strategy
- Investigate reports of accidents and incidents, making recommendations for improvements
- Develop training programmes and deliver workshops for staff and students
- Support the development of local emergency response procedures
What you bring:
The ideal candidate for the Health and Safety Advisor position will bring a wealth of experience from their time as a health and safety professional. Your degree level qualification or equivalent experience will be complemented by your NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent). Your excellent networking skills will enable you to build strong relationships with key stakeholders while your proven written and oral communication skills will allow you to articulate information clearly. Your ability to organise your workload effectively under pressure will be essential in this fast-paced environment.
- Degree level qualification or equivalent experience
- NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent)
- Experience as a health and safety professional across a range of hazards relevant to a university environment
- Excellent networking and liaison skills
- Ability to organise workload effectively under pressure
- Proven written and oral communication skills
What sets this company apart:
This is an exceptional opportunity to join an organisation that values the care and welfare of its employees, students, and others. They are committed to providing a high-quality service that enables them to discharge their statutory duties effectively. The successful candidate will have the chance to contribute significantly towards creating a positive culture of health and safety performance.
What's next:
If you're ready for an exciting new challenge as a Health and Safety Advisor, don't hesitate!
Apply today by clicking on the link!
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