About the role: Health and Safety Adviser

Are you passionate about improving health and safety standards within the Authority? Were looking for an experienced H&S professional to provide advice and support to the Authority and to help deliver bespoke health and safety training where areas of need are identified.

About you: Health and Safety Adviser

Youll:

• Be passionate about health and safety
• Have skills in delivering professional health and safety training.
• Be able to develop professional relationships and influence decision makers.
• Have a sound understanding of how health and safety affects a Local Authority.

What you will do: Health and Safety Adviser

• Develop Policies, Procedures, Guidance
• Carry out audits and inspections
• Investigate and report on accidents or incidents
• Provide Corporate Directors, Heads of Service and Service Area Managers with the appropriate H&S advice and assistance
• Represent the Authority in a professional manner and assist, liaise and work with external bodies such as the Health and Safety Executive, Fire Service and WG

If you have any questions about the role, please contact:

David Hurst - Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager

Your responsibilities will be: Health and Safety Adviser

• To have responsibility for providing Occupational Health and Safety support, advice and guidance to service areas within the council, monitoring services performance in accordance with Council policy and statutory requirements.
• Develop Policies, Procedures, Guidance and assist Service Area Management in the development of strategic health and safety systems to enable the Service Areas to comply with legislative and statutory requirements.
• Assist, advise and support the Corporate Directors and Heads of Service through specialist professional knowledge to ensure that work activities are undertaken in a safe manner in accordance with County Council Policy and legislative requirements. Encourage the maintenance of a positive health and safety culture within the Service Areas.
• Carry out audits and inspections in accordance with Council Policies, the Service Area Health and Safety Systems and/or as directed by the Service Area Management Team or Safety Forum. Providing written recommendations to assist Managers in determining reasonably practicable solutions.
• Investigate and report on accidents or incidents in accordance with Council Policy and Legislative requirements and/or where directed by the Service Area Management Team, Safety Forums and the Insurance & Liability Section.
• Produce reports to enable accident and incident trends to be monitored and managed within the Service Areas.
• Assist and liaise in the development, co-ordination and delivery of both in-house and external health and safety training programmes.
• To attend health and safety liaison meetings, both internally and with external health and safety groups as agreed with the Heads of Service and/or Professional Lead Workforce & Organisation Development.
• Provide Corporate Directors, Heads of Service and Service Area Managers with the appropriate H&S advice and assistance. Monitoring that they are discharging their implicit health and safety responsibilities in accordance with statutory health and safety legislative and Council Policy requirements and to ensure that business risks are reduced to the lowest practicable levels.
• To ensure that health and safety systems and procedures are being suitably managed by Corproate Directors, Heads of Service and Service Area Managers.
• To assist in the development and maintenance of a corporate health and safety intranet site.
• Represent the Authority in a professional manner and assist, liaise and work with external bodies such as the Health and Safety Executive, Fire Service and WAG as and when required to ensure the provision of a suitable and effective health and safety service.
• To keep up to date with the latest health and safety requirements, maintain individual C.P.D, and disseminate information as appropriate to all levels of staff.
• To work closely with Occupational Health and Human Resources colleagues in promoting the health of the workforce, and identifying and addressing areas of work-related ill health.
• To stop any Council activity for reasons of health and safety that may lead to serious and imminent risk to employees, members of the public or any others.
• Take a lead role in identified health and safety topics as indicated by the Councils H&S Action Plan and HSE initiatives and disseminate the information to professional colleagues.