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Senior Safety & Resilience Officer
Location Based at Rugby – Working from Home 1 day per week if needed
Duration of assignment: 8 Weeks
Working hours: Mon to Fri – 37 hours
Rate: £28 Umbrella per hour OR £17.59 PAYE per hour
IR35 status: Inside IR35
Ideal start date: ASAP
PURPOSE OF THE JOB
Drive behavioural change to ensure excellence in health, safety and welfare of employees and provide assurance to SMT of health and safety standards.
Identify, create, organise, run and record appropriate health and safety training for staff. Where necessary investigate and organise suitable providers for specialist training.
Assist with planning, implementation and monitoring the effectiveness of our Health and Safety policy and procedures.
Manage the Health and Safety Coordinators; DSE assessors; Fire Marshalls; and First Aiders, championing their work to ensure competent, efficient, and productive delivery of objectives in line with prioritised health and safety cultural improvements.
Provide appropriate and competent health and safety advice and assistance.
Support resilience at RBC, including emergency planning and business continuity portfolio of work.
Support the Safety and Resilience Manager, and when necessary, deputise for him.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Support and audit local managers’ health and safety management and liaise with the appropriate manager to ensure that issues are addressed within an appropriate time frame.
Create action plans in response to audits and monitor delivery.
Investigate Town Hall incidents and audit incident investigations for non-Town Hall incidents. Maintain an incident record database; analyse incident data to produce quarterly and annual reports for Management meetings.
1.4 Develop and deliver competent effective and efficient health and safety training to staff (internal and external)
1.5 Support Comms in maintaining an H & S folder on the extranet.
1.6 Conduct regular inspections and audits of council’s work sites and activities
1.7 Work in partnership with the Safety & Resilience Team to develop best practice, such as monitoring of behaviours and cultures, while ensuring that we can still get the job done (risk aware not risk averse).
1.8 To support the Safety and Resilience Manager with regard to business continuity and emergency planning to ensure resilience of the unit including supporting Managers reviewing and testing of BC plans locally and supporting RBC in cooperation with the Warwickshire Local Resilience Forum.
1.9 Provide appropriate health, safety, or welfare management information, including quarterly newsletter.
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1.10 Support risk assessment work across the Council.
1.11 Respond to employees and Trade Union health and safety complaints/concerns as appropriate.
1.12 Administrate for and run the 6-weeekly H & S coordinator meetings, or similar if appropriate.
1.13 Support Corporate Property in fire safety measures. Coordinate fire drills, including review and lessons learnt. Create and maintain Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans in liaison with local managers.
1.14 Where appropriate liaise with the HSE or other relevant enforcing authority.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
The post holders will line manage health and safety coordinators.
To set an example to others in excellence in health and safety at work.
FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Responsible for authorising expenditure and monitoring expenditure against agreed budget for personal protective equipment and health and safety training.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR ASSETS AND DATA
A responsibility for ensuring that information collated and used for performance monitoring is accurate in conjunction with the Councils Data Quality Strategy.
EXTENT OF PUBLIC CONTACT
Most of the duties will involve contact with council staff and senior officers. There will be irregular contact with elected members, Trade Unions, local and national external bodies and the public
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