Vacancy at Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation
Health & Safety Advisor
Salary
£ 38,000 per annum
1GC/Hybrid (3 days in office per week)
Vacancy listed
14/01/2025
Application deadline
28/01/2025
Details
Join us in seeing our vision come to life, where living in Letchworth Garden City offers everyone the opportunity to flourish as part of a vibrant community, enjoy the best that both town and country offers, and benefit from easy access to nature with unrivalled facilities, culture, and support networks.
We currently have an exciting and new role available as Health and Safety Advisor reporting directly to our Health Safety and Risk Business Partner, within the property team.
Our Property Team are responsible for the active management of the Letchworth Garden City Estate. The overriding focus of the team is to efficiently steward and proactively manage the Foundation’s property assets to generate income, enhance value, provide excellent operational facilities and to ensure the estate is maintained to a high standard. The team is also central to the promotion of the Garden City and its economic growth and the delivery of the Foundations charitable objectives.
This role extends across the wider Foundation and will have an important input and responsibility for health and safety and risk management of wider functions and activities of the organisation.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Responsible for providing advice and support to all departments in relation to Health, Safety and Welfare. You will support with the development, implementation, management and reviewing of the Health and Safety Strategy, Policy, objectives and Processes.
You will be involved in carrying out incident investigations including, accidents, property damage and near misses. To include gathering all available evidence, recording on incident reporting system and establishing the root cause to prevent a reoccurrence.
You will be involved in conducting regular safety inspections of our Venues and support and coach our employees to achieve health and safety KPI’s and support the development of a positive safety culture.
Liaising with external bodies (Insurers, HSE, Local Fire Authorities and other Enforcing authorities) as required and assist with making all Statutory Notifications.
Assisting the Health safety & Risk Business Partner in the selection process of external contractors and consultants. Ensuring contractor H&S validation documents are monitored on Fixflo and any necessary RAMS are validated.
ABOUT YOU
EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE
- minimum of 2 years’ experience in a similar Health, Safety
and Environmental adviser role
and Environmental adviser role
- Understanding and awareness of H&S law, H&S principles,
procedures & property compliance experience
procedures & property compliance experience
- IT literacy, including SharePoint, O365 and an ability to
learn new systems quickly (RiskWise Compliance
Reporting System)
learn new systems quickly (RiskWise Compliance
Reporting System)
- Great communication skills- be able to persuade and
convince others where necessary to achieve desired
outputs through motivating and coaching people
convince others where necessary to achieve desired
outputs through motivating and coaching people
- Understanding of risk management and analytics
- experience in training and coaching in all aspects of
Health and Safety
Health and Safety
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND QUALIFICATIONS
- NEBOSH Certificate - Level 3
- TECH IOSH (minimum)
- Knowledge of Food Hygiene legislation, Animal Welfare and
Property Compliance desirable
OUR VALUES
Collaborative. Evidence-based. Inclusive. Supportive. Impactful
Property Compliance desirable
OUR VALUES
Collaborative. Evidence-based. Inclusive. Supportive. Impactful
We are a people business. We look for passionate people who will help us to meet our vision and values. Our values demonstrate our principles and guide our actions. We want our values to come to life through people’s experience of each other and the Foundation as whole - ultimately helping create a culture that ensures our commitment to achieving our vision and mission.
APPLICATION
If you are keen to develop your skills are looking for an exciting new opportunity why not apply?
APPLICATION
If you are keen to develop your skills are looking for an exciting new opportunity why not apply?
Applications must include a CV and a covering statement/letter explaining why you are applying for the role. Applications without a covering statement may not be accepted.
Closing date for applications: 28 January 2025
Please note if we receive a large volume of applications for this role, we reserve the right to close the vacancy ahead of the published closing date.
Interviews are likely to be held week commencing 10th February 2025
Interviews are likely to be held week commencing 10th February 2025
EQUAL OPPORTUNTITIES
Whether it is creating diversity in our services or building new teams, we care about our people and the opportunities they have. We are committed to equality of opportunity across our organisation. At all levels we promote equality, ensuring our people are consistently treated in a fair and equal manner.
Whether it is creating diversity in our services or building new teams, we care about our people and the opportunities they have. We are committed to equality of opportunity across our organisation. At all levels we promote equality, ensuring our people are consistently treated in a fair and equal manner.
SAFEGUARDING
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expect all our colleagues to share this commitment.
FLEXIBILITY
We understand that you might need a little help balancing your work and home life. Many of our colleagues work flexibly in many different ways. Please feel free to talk to us about the flexibility you may need; we’re happy to explore what’s possible for you and the role.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expect all our colleagues to share this commitment.
FLEXIBILITY
We understand that you might need a little help balancing your work and home life. Many of our colleagues work flexibly in many different ways. Please feel free to talk to us about the flexibility you may need; we’re happy to explore what’s possible for you and the role.
PERSONAL DATA
Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation (LGCHF) will only collect personal data relevant to the recruitment process and will process that data in compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018 / UKGDPR. Your personal data will only be shared with persons directly involved in the recruitment process, and LGCHF will retain your personal data for only as long as it remains relevant to LGCHF. For further information please ask for a copy of our general recruitment privacy policy. For information on your data rights, go to www.ico.org.uk.
Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation (LGCHF) will only collect personal data relevant to the recruitment process and will process that data in compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018 / UKGDPR. Your personal data will only be shared with persons directly involved in the recruitment process, and LGCHF will retain your personal data for only as long as it remains relevant to LGCHF. For further information please ask for a copy of our general recruitment privacy policy. For information on your data rights, go to www.ico.org.uk.
Benefits
Every member of our team is valued, which is why we support them with a range of benefits to help them thrive both inside and outside of work.
Our benefits are grouped around three priorities – Health, Work life balance/time and Finances
Health:
Cash Health Plan
Cycle to work scheme
Employee Assistance Programme & Wellbeing resource
Smart Health 24/7 GP consultation
Time:
27 days holiday plus Bank Holidays (pro-rata for part time)
Holiday buy / sell scheme
1 day paid Volunteering Leave per year (pro rata for part time)
Finances:
Company Pension
Life Assurance
£220 Wellbeing Allowance per year
Electric Vehicle Scheme
Employee Discount Scheme
Discounts for our venues