Health and Safety Lead

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We are excited to announce we have a new role available at Davies Veterinary Specialists. We are seeking an experienced Health & Safety Lead to drive safety improvements across our veterinary hospital. In this role you will have the opportunity to develop your skills working along side a diverse and dedicated team on an incredible 14 unit site. You will work closely with the central support teams regional health & safety manager. This role is a parttime role working 24h per week over 3 days on site.

This role will play a key part in fostering a culture of safety and inclusivity ensuring that operational teams integrate best practices into their daily routines. You will act as a subject matter expert (SME) translating complex legislation into practical effective solutions leading on health and safety strategy audits managing risk and delivering compliance with all current legislation and best practice.

Key Responsibilities:

• Compliance & Risk Management: Ensure adherence to ISO 45001 principles industry standards and statutory inspections.
• Keep up to date with new legislation and maintain a working knowledge of all the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) legislation and any developments that affect the business/industry
• Work closely with the facilities manager and management team to develop and implement effective H&S policies and management systems
• Carry out regular site inspections to check policies and procedures are being properly implemented across all areas of the business working closely with the facilities manager.
• Fire Safety & Risk Assessments: Manage fire actions and conduct fire safety reviews.
• Incident Investigation: Support the investigation of accidents and incidents making recommendations to prevent recurrence. Continuously promote H&S reporting to ensure that all accidents are reported and logged and that investigations and audits are properly documented.
• Audits & Inspections: Conduct occupational health and safety audits to monitor and improve performance.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with the Hospital Manager SLT Facilities Manager and operational teams to implement safety measures effectively. Work closely with the regional Health and Safety Manager.
• Chair the quarterly H&S meetings.

What Were Looking For:

• Experience: Minimum 2 years experience in a multisite/multidisciplinary health and safety role
• Knowledge & Skills
• NEBOSH Certificate in Health and Safety
• Strong understanding of Health Safety and Fire regulations.
• Excellent project management and organisational skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fastpaced environment
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively across the practice.

About us:

Davies Veterinary Specialists is one of the largest and most diverse small animal veterinary referral centres in Europe with a team of over 200 people. We are situated in the beautiful Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire countryside within 50 minutes of London by train. Founded over 25 years ago Davies is recognised as a leader in the veterinary referral sector offering a diverse range of multidisciplinary services. We are also known for our pioneering sustainability initiatives within the industry having gained the Investors in the Environment Green Award and won several other awards.

Benefits

• 5 weeks holiday bank holidays Birthday Leave
• Career progression opportunities
• Staff discount schemes
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced sickness pay
• Enhanced equal family leave
• Ecar salary sacrifice scheme
• Employer contribution pension scheme
• Wellness program including:
• Employee assistance program
• Eyecare voucher scheme
• Free annual Flu jab
• Cycle to work scheme
• Recruitment referral reward scheme.

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Salary Value: 32000;

Salary Description: starting from D.O.E. pro rata;

We are proud to be Linnaeus part of Mars.

Linnaeus is a forwardthinking group of highly respected primary care and specialist referral practices in the UK and Ireland. Being family owned and part of Mars Veterinary Health the largest veterinary company in the world allows us to focus on advancing the veterinary profession to provide industryleading pet care and unique career opportunities for our people.

Why Linnaeus

We pride ourselves in offering highquality excellence of service and clinical care for our clients and their pets

We lead on sustainability and collectively drive positive change for people pets and the planet

We prioritise your mental health and wellbeing valuing equity diversity and inclusion

We support your personal and professional development with bestinclass career frameworks and training programmes. We will empower and support you to grow your career from day one.

We team up within our Mars family in partnership for a stronger future.

Linnaeus is an equalopportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. We treat each other fairly and equitably and we are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse for all our Associates.

At Linnaeus A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS starts with a better world for our people.

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