Health and Safety Officer

Are you looking for your next opportunity as a Health & Safety Officer? Then look no further, come and join us at Hope House Children’s Hospices by playing a vital role in delivering ‘Our Mission’ Helping every child with a life-threatening condition live their best life.

We are looking for a Health and Safety Officer who can work 30 hours per week, on a permanent basis, with a base in either Conwy, Oswestry or Chester. In return, you will receive a competitive salary of £34,439 - £40,937 FTE per annum, plus a pro rata car allowance.

About The Health And Safety Officer Role

Your role as H&S Officer is to help us deliver Our Purpose, through developing a positive H&S culture, where our children, families, staff, volunteers and supporters feel protected and their safety is maintained.

With a focus on our retail operations, you will be an engaging individual, with great IT, communication and organisation skills. You will be comfortable delivering concise, balanced and pragmatic H&S advice to our retail management team.

You will also champion a positive H&S culture through the delivery of engaging training programmes, awareness campaigns, lessons learnt reviews and supportive H&S staff forums. Finally, you will ensure that we have a structured and compliant H&S system designed around concise and coherent policies, procedures, and risk assessments, safe systems of work and assurance audits.

Friendly and personable, you will be flexible in your approach to work and able to travel across Shropshire, Cheshire, North and Mid Wales to fulfil your duties.

We are looking for a Health & Safety Officer with

• Minimum NEBOSH qualification
• PTTLS Training Certificate or Level 3 Award in Education and Training
• Demonstrable experience in a Health and Safety Officer role
• An ability to draft concise and accurate risk assessments, policies, procedures and safe systems of work, and to complete assurance audits/inspections
• An ability to interpret technical law or best practice, and applying this through concise, pragmatic & balanced advice/recommendations
• An excellent understanding of HSE Management Systems and UK H&S legislation
• Excellent organisational, multitasking, communication and IT skills
• The ability to build string working relationships and influence at all levels
  
  

What We Offer

By joining Team Hope House Children’s Hospices, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we make a real commitment to your career, health and wellbeing. We will support you by providing:

• Generous annual leave entitlement of 33 days per year FTE (increasing with long service up to 38 days)
• 1 wellbeing leave day per annum
• Staff counselling through health assured
• NHS pension scheme or organisational pension
• Discounted gym memberships
• Eligibility to apply for a Blue Light Card for high street discounts
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Funded Medicash - Health Care Cash Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible working arrangements
• Great development opportunities
• Choice of staff networks
  
  

We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and to be a disability confident employer.

If you think you have what it takes to be our Health and Safety Officer then please click ‘apply’ now! We are welcoming informal discussions with our Recruiting Manager Chris Head of Organisational Development contact us on 01691 679679. We’d love to hear from you!

We reserve the right to close the advert early, if required.

Hope House and Ty Gobaith Children’s Hospices are committed to equality of opportunity and meeting the needs of children, young people and families. The care we provide and the environment we create to deliver care reflects our ongoing commitment to respecting the diversity of the communities we serve, and the individual physical, spiritual and emotional needs of each person and their loved ones.