Job Description

Health & Safety Systems Development Lead - Full-Time Fixed-Term Position (12 Months)

Nottingham: £72,675 - £76,500

London: £80,750 - £85,000

As the Health and Safety Systems Development Lead, you will be responsible for evaluating, developing, and implementing a range of critical elements of the health and safety management system. Your proven expertise will help to strengthen, re-energise, and promote our processes and arrangements in order to ensure the health and safety needs of our colleagues, customers and any others affected through MTVH's activities.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the creation, development and implementation of health and safety risk mapping processes across the business.

- Consult and collaborate on health and safety risk/needs with cross-functional directorates/teams.

- Review, revise and implement a comprehensive and consistent hazard identification and risk control process within the business (Risk assessment).

- Design and oversee to implementation, a pro-active hazard spotting system/process.

- Perform comprehensive review of Personal Safety/Lone worker processes and arrangements.

- Support general health and safety needs within the existing health and safety team.

- Provide information and training as appropriate.

What you need to succeed

- Proven experience in health and safety management system development and hazard identification/risk management processes.

- Very strong knowledge of health and safety regulations and best practices.

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Requires strong and effective communication and collaboration abilities.

- Ability to work on own initiative and produce high-quality outputs from direction provided

- Appropriate level of recognised health and safety qualifications (ideally CMIOSH status or equivalent).

Due to the nature of this role, a full driving licence is required with business insurance and access to transport.

What you need to do now

Please see attached job specification for full details including personal competencies to determine if this is the ideal job for you. If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to complete an application.

Interview Information: Initial first-round interview to be a 15-30 minute phone call, second-round in-person interviews commencing from Friday 06 December.

Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What's in it for you?

Our benefits include:-

* 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year

* 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities

* An additional "Beliefs day" once a year to have an extra a day off

* Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave

* Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%

* Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year

* Life assurance cover 3 x your salary

* Cycle2work scheme

* Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department

* Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too

* Tenancy deposit ? interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan

* Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform

* Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues

* Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support

* Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation

About us

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively "Serving people better every day" to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other's wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we're doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-

* Gender

* Ethnicity

* LGBTQ+

* Disability

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment