Health Safety Business Partner - Property Services

Are you a Property / FM Health & Safety professional adept at stakeholder management Utilise your considerable expertise knowledge skills in repair and maintenance by partnering with key stakeholders in our Property Services directorate.

Reporting to the Assistant Director Health Safety and Facilities you will support and advise on professional and pragmatic H&S guidance that enables our teams to deliver their services while keeping employees customers and others safe and healthy.

You should be proactive with a desire to understand the business able to embed a culture of safety with senior stakeholders work collaboratively to ensure compliance and competence in the services we provide. You will attend directorate / team meetings to deliver health and safety performance data and to gain understanding and insight into departmental operations and challenges.

There will be site visits to undertake in our areas of operation around the southeast of England so you should have a current driving licence and your own transport (business mileage will be paid at prevailing rate in line with our policy). You will complete routine checks on statutory compliance with legislation and regulations including but not limited to asbestos legionella LOLER electricity gas fire etc.

Reviewing health and safety checks completed by the Property Services teams identifying key themes / trends and opportunities for improvement developing action plans to prevent reoccurrence. Establishing a reputation as the goto person for guidance on compliance with health and safety and risk management.

Working closely with our Talent (Learning & Development) team to develop and deliver effective and engaging presentation of toolbox talks training or health and safety briefings.

This a great opportunity for making a difference in a valuesled organisation where we provide quality social housing for people who need them.

Candidate Requirements:

• An appropriate H&S qualification such as NEBOSH General Certificate and / orworking towards NEBOSH National Diploma (or equivalent).
• A professional membership i.e. IOSH and / orextensive experience in a similar role.
• Understanding of health and safety at work legislation.
• A good understanding and knowledge on compliance with Asbestos Legionella LOLER Electricity Gas and Fire regulations / legislation.
• Experience with facilities / property / contractor management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• The ability to effectively deliver H&S information instruction supervision and training i.e. Toolbox Talks.
• Be prepared to undertake extensive regular travel across PHGs locations (mainly Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire areas).

Why Join Us

At Paradigm Housing Group we are committed to creating a workplace that values diversity fosters innovation and supports our employees development. Here are just some of our benefits that we are proud to offer:

• 25 days annual leave to start rising with service (plus bank holidays and 3 days over Christmas/New Year)
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 9.5.
• Familyfriendly policies including generous parental leave sabbaticals and flexible working options.
• Health Cash Plan worth over 1800 p/a covering a range of healthcare services.
• 3 paid Giving Back days per year for volunteering.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published date should be identify a suitable candidate.

We are Paradigm Housing Group.

We manage more than 17000 homes across the South East.

We know that house prices in the areas where we work are high both to buy and rent. We want to help more people have a safe and sustainable home that they can afford.

As a charity the money we make goes into building new homes and providing an excellent service for residents.

We are a Best Companies twostar accredited organisation in recognition of our high employee engagement and commitment to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is free to be themselves and feel like they belong. We are clearly focused on the delivery of our fiveyear corporate plan with ambitious and challenging objectives including delivering one of the sectors largest digital transformation programmes improving our environment and sustainability targets and delivering more quality homes to people who need them.