Head of Health & Safety Transformation
The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.
Corporate and Delivery Directorate works closely with the Home Office’s policy and operational commands to enable us together to deliver the department’s priorities. The directorate is comprised of different teams and professional functions, including Commercial, Finance, People, Portfolio and Project Delivery, Security, Estates and Information and Digital, Data and Technology.
The Head of People Health and Safety Transformation role is crucial to ensure the successful delivery of the Home Office's ambitious transformation programme and the implementation of its "Think Safe, Work Safe and Home Safe" strategy. This role provides the dedicated leadership and expertise required to develop and embed a new operating model that drives our commitment to ensuring those we work with and for are kept safe and well.
This is a health and safety job like few others, providing you with the authority and empowerment to shape the future of what health and safety looks like across the work of the Home Office. You will be supported by a dedicated H&S Transformation team as you look to improve and influence our safety offering.
The Health, Safety and Fire Team (HS&F) within the Home Office sits within the Security, Estate and Information Directorate. The HS&F team are one function, however split across two distinct workstreams. This role will Head up the Health and Safety Transformation Team, working closely with a fellow Head of People Health, Safety and Fire.
The role requires a leader with the qualifications and leadership skills to engage senior stakeholders, influence cultural change, and develop innovative solutions that improve safety performance while ensuring legal compliance. Additionally, we are looking for a transformative leader who can provide the oversight necessary to manage transformation workstreams, mitigate risks, and navigate dependencies critical to achieving programme success.
This role will allow the post holder to work with senior leaders and stakeholders from across the Home Office and other Government Departments. With a role that has transformation at its core, you will be are the forefront of delivering large, important and visible programmes of work.
Key responsibilities- Reviewing, planning and implementing health and safety transformation work streams to ensure both legal and internal policy compliance.
- Supports the delivery of critical programmes such as the new accident and incident reporting system, supporting organisational cultural change work and engaging with internal and external stakeholders to ensure best practice is instilled across our health and safety processes.
- Work with the Head of the People Health, Safety and Fire Team to ensure health and safety management and leadership is consistent across the Home Office; ensuring our processes are up to date, applicable to our activities and operations; and are regularly reviewed and assured.
- Head of the Health and Safety Transformation Team, line managing Grade 7 colleagues and being responsible for the work of the wider transformation team.
- Be part of an incident response structure, working with the Head of the People Health, Safety and Fire team to ensure senior support is available if needed during incidents or emergencies.
- Effective line management responsibilities are required.
Working pattern
Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis.