Health & Safety Manager
Health & Safety Manager
Location: PeterboroughContract Type: Full Time
Salary: £49,992 per annum
Hours: 35 hours per week
At Accent we believe everyone has the right to a safe, secure and warm place to call home. Are you ready to go above and beyond to deliver of a first-class Health & Safety service?
We’re looking for a Health & Safety Manager to join our Heath, Safety and Facilities team.
As our Health & Safety Manager, you’ll lead and inspire colleagues to promote a positive health & safety culture across Accent ensuring we are able to provide safe homes for customers and workplaces for colleagues. Utilising your strong stakeholder engagement skills, you’ll partner with all areas of the business to deliver a holistic H&S function in a dynamic and enthusiastic manner.In this role you’ll own relevant H&S policies, procedures and guidance ensuring they’re up to date with relevant changes to regulations, legislation, best practice and fit for purpose.
This is a great opportunity for someone with experience in the housing sector that can identify areas of weakness and prepare Accent for upcoming regulatory changes. You’ll be joining a growing team and will use your people skills to lead a small team embedding a culture of continuous improvement.
Salary: The spot salary for this post is £49,992 per annum for applicants who fully meet the requirements of the post. Applicants, who do not meet all the requirements of the post, will start 5% or 10% below the spot salary.
You’ll also receive:
- 28 days paid holiday (pro-rata excluding bank holidays) per year rising by 1 day per year up to a maximum of one working week.
- A choice of Pension Schemes including a Defined Benefit Scheme with a 7.5% member contribution or a Defined Contribution Scheme with a 4% member contribution and 4% employer contribution. Both pension schemes provide Life Insurance Cover.
- Option to purchase additional holiday of up to 2 of your working weeks (at managers discretion.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- "Hapi" Benefits App with multiple discounts.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- What skills/behaviours do you need to be a Health & Safety Manager?
- NEBOSH National Diploma or equivalent
- Enthusiasm and the drive to deliver meaningful change
- Evidenced sector knowledge and a desire to improve safety standards in social housing
- Fantastic interpersonal and communication skills allowing you to communicate effectively across the entire organisation
- Experience in managing a remote team
- Experience in developing policies and procedures and an understating of HSG 65 and ISO 45001
Location: The successful candidate will be required to live within a commutable distance to our Peterborough office with travel throughout the south and east region as required.
We’re a keen promoter of agile working and encourage working from home, as long as we meet our customers’ needs. We’ll provide you with the equipment and software you’ll need for the purpose of your role however it will be your responsibility to have an appropriate space to work from as well as a suitable broadband connection/provider.
Interview Process
First stage – competency interview over Teams on the 21st/22nd October.Second stage – Behavioural Assessment, presentation and final interview in person at our Peterborough office on Monday 28th October or Bradford on Tuesday 29th October.
Who are Accent?
At Accent, we believe that everyone should have access to an affordable, sustainable, and safe home, and our work across the country aims to do just that. We’re a national organisation, but with a community focus. We were formed in 1966 and have grown in the time since, and now provide homes and services to over 40,000 customers.But we are not just about building new homes. We invest in our existing homes to make sure they offer our customers the very best in living standards by adapting to meet new ideas, environmental changes, new regulations for safety and security and modern technology to make them a home for life, in every way our customers need them to be.
Caring for our customers also means caring for their environment. With our ambitious energy-efficient development plans, and our retrofitting projects which are modernising our current homes; we are putting sustainability at the fore so that we can drive value for customers now and in the future.
As anchor institutions in the communities where we work, it’s important we leverage partnerships and seek opportunities for customers that provide the foundations for better living. We build relationships which accelerate and advance our work to ensure customers are supported if they need it and can be happy living in their homes.Our new operating model puts our colleagues in the heart of our communities. We are committed to building strong relationships with our customers and we work alongside them to co-curate the services we deliver.
We never stop evolving – we are ambitious and driven and understand that great performance is a product of an inclusive and supportive environment, where colleagues can thrive and achieve their best. With a new people strategy and corporate strategy which will sets out our commitments from 2024-2027, it’s an exciting time to join Accent.
If you require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, please let us know we will ensure requirements are met.
Please don’t delay in submitting your application. Where roles are urgent or we receive a high volume of applications, we may interview and conclude the process prior to any closing date indicated. Please note candidates must have current eligibility to live and work in the UK, Accent do not currently hold sponsorship.
We are excited about our future and if you are too, we’d love to hear from you.
You may have experience in the following roles: Health & Safety Officer, H&S Consultant, Risk Manager, H&S Advisor, Environmental Health Officer, Compliance Manager, Occupational Health and Safety Manager, Safety Compliance Manager, etc.
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