Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor
Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor
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Job Description
Organisation:Leicestershire County Council
Work Location:County Hall Glenfield Leicester LE3 8RA
Worker Category:Hybrid Worker
Salary: per annum
Working Hours:37 hours per week
Contract Type:Permanent
Closing Date:22nd May 2025
Interview Date(s): 2nd June TBC
Are you a Health Safety and Wellbeing professional looking for a varied role where you can really make a difference
Were looking for a Health Safety and Wellbeing Advisor to join our Corporate Team.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join our friendly and dedicatedHealth Safety and Wellbeing Team part of a wider People Services Teamawarded PPMA Public Sector Team of the Year in 2021.
About the Role
The Corporate HS&W Advisor role involves working directly with a range of services within LCC. These services vary from social care schools libraries offices and to parks highways and recyclingcentres the broad range of services creates an exciting opportunity for someone looking to expand their H&S experience.
You will carry out health and safety audits inspections and accident investigations across our sites and will provide advice to managers within dedicated departments to undertake their health and safety duties and responsibilities. You will also be involved in exciting project work such as developing and delivering health and safety training health and safety campaigns implementation of the Councils health and safety management system and updating policies and documentation.
You will be supported by a Senior Health Safety and Wellbeing Advisor and theCorporate Health Safety and Wellbeing Manager along with a team of other advisors.
The service which is ISO45001 certified sits within People Services winnersPPMA Public Sector Team of the Year Award 2021meaning we work closely with Human ResourcesOrganisationalDevelopment and Learning and Development teams. The corporate and traded teams work closely together creating a supportive environment for staff to develop their knowledge and experience from each other.
This is a great opportunity for you to develop your expertise through exposure to a broad range of work and variety of work environments and challenges.
About You
The post is available as a combination of office and home working and involves travel to Council sites across Leicestershire.
- Youll have a NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety (Level 3) or equivalent qualification.
- Youll have IOSH Technical Membership.
- Youll have experience of undertaking health safety and wellbeing activities including good knowledge and understanding of hazards risks and control measures that can be applied to a broad range of service areas.
- Youll have knowledge and understanding of ISO45001.
- Youll be able to write accurate and concise health and safety reports using template documents.
- Youll be a strong concise and effective communicator at all levels including ability to deliver Health and Safety training.
- Youll be able to demonstrate a fluent understanding of ICT programmes including Outlook Word Excel PowerPoint and SharePoint.
This role will require regular travel across Leicestershire so a valid driving licence access to a vehicle and business use insurance is required. However reasonable adjustments will always be considered for applicants with a disability.
You must also have an understanding of and commitment to equal opportunities and the ability to apply this to all situations.
We would also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
In return we can offer you an excellent benefits package including:
- a generous annual leave allowance (minimum of 26 days plus bank holidays)
- access to the excellent Local Government Pension Scheme
- support with your ongoing professional development
- access to an employee wellbeing service
- an employee discount and benefit scheme.
Interested in Flexible Working
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for termtime working parttime hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Stylespage on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:
Amy Walling Senior Health Safety and Wellbeing Advisor / Manager
Telephone: 0
Email:
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section above. For more information see the How to Applysection on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning0(select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: applying for this post you agree to ourTerms and Conditions.
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Employment Type
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