Health, Safety & Compliance Lead
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Reports to: Audience Experience & Operations Manager
Location: The Glasshouse International Centre for Music
Department: Operations
Working hours: 36 hours per week
Salary: SCP 36, £36,012 per annum
Closing date: 9am, Friday 19th April
About The Glasshouse International Centre for Music
We are an international music centre based on the banks of the River Tyne. We are a unique venue where artists from across the
world perform and audiences from a wide range of backgrounds come to hear, make, and enjoy all types of music.
We support local people to be creative, to develop a passion for music and put music at the heart of communities. Our artist
development programme provides local artists with the opportunities they need to develop a career in music. We support young
people to make music in our building and in the wider community through programmes such as In Harmony Newcastle Gateshead.
We believe our work makes life better for people in the North East. We’re building a creative, diverse, and passionate team and
that’s where you come in.
About you
Are you self-motivated, happy working in a team environment and flexible enough to adapt to a changing environment? If this sounds
like you, here are some specific types of experience that will help you hit the ground running.
You must have proven experience of:
• Leading the health and safety function within a multi-faceted organisation for a minimum of two years.
• Engaging with all teams to create a culture of health and safety, ensuring teams are aware of their health and safety
responsibilities and are motivated to assess risk and work safely.
• Strong decision-making and problem solving.
• Leading change projects.
• Monitoring, investigating and reporting upon safety incidents, monitoring trends and making and delivering proactive
recommendations for change.
• Training others to upskill their safety knowledge e.g manual handling, creating risk assessments, fire safety.
• Setting up and monitoring compliance processes, to ensure regulatory requirements are met across all departments for example;
licensing, charity reporting, certification or similar.
Skills and knowledge:
• Methodical approach
• Good time management and well organised
• Highly motivated, with a positive attitude to lead and influence others
• Excellent communicator
• Project Management
• Coaching skills
• Training skills
• Living the organisational values with each decision and interaction
• Exceptional organisation and administrative skills and ability to multitask many complex projects to deadline
• Knowledge General Data Protection Regulations May 2018
• Excellent computer skills and knowledge of Microsoft Programmes
• Able to write policies and procedures that are accurate and effective
• Able to oversee action plans through to completion
• Good attention to detail
Qualifications:
• General NEBOSH
• IOSH Qualification
It also helps if you have:
• Training qualification or experience of delivering effective training
• GDPR expertise
• Working within a charity
• A passion for live music.
If you’re not a perfect match for the job description and criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are more interested in
your determination, positivity, and willingness to get stuck in.
About the role of Health, Safety and Compliance Lead
This is a key role within The Glasshouse International Centre for Music and divides into two sections.
1. Health & Safety – To lead Health & Safety for the organisation providing expertise, guidance and advice to teams, developing a
true culture of health and safety and continuous improvement.
2. Compliance –Ensuring that the charity, its employees and its projects comply with all relevant regulations and specifications.
This could include health and safety, environmental, legal or quality standards.
Overall purpose of the role
The purpose of this role is to hold the organisation’s health and safety and compliance processes and practices.
Work with teams to ensure that a culture of health and safety is lived by all. Guiding others to ensure safe processes and
practices are in place with excellent levels of supporting paperwork. Monitoring and ensuring incidents are investigated to
promote continuous improvement.
Lead all of the charity’s compliance requirements, engaging with teams to fulfil their responsibilities. This will include
collating and managing a database of all compliance requirements, and proactively monitoring actions and updates as and when
required.
Work with the Health, Safety and Safeguarding committee to ensure that organisation focus is maintained, and actions (both health
and safety and compliance) are being monitored and completed.
Providing analysis reporting and insights to the leadership team as a way to ensure leadership focus and overall improvement for
future practices.
Your responsibilities:
• Drive cultural change and behaviour, demonstrating best practice towards health and safety, and compliance.
• Continuously improve the organisations Health and Safety procedures, standards and processes.
• Lead the Health & Safety committee to deliver organisation change
• Keep up to date with changes in health & safety law and advice
• Ensure teams maintain compliance against latest legislative criteria.
• Ensure a zero incident culture within health and safety
• Work with teams to help them to embrace methods to reduce incidents leading to increased health in the team, leading to better
working environment
• Work with teams to define and monitor safe working procedures and risk assessment
• Conduct health and safety investigations where applicable and ensure actions are implemented with the support of the Senior
Management Team and Health & Safety Committee
• Set up and maintain controls and documentation procedures.
• Monitor performance by gathering relevant data and produce statistical reports.
• Review existing policies, ensuring that any changes and improvements are implemented.
• Measure performance and identify any areas of weakness, recommending and working with teams to implement improvements.
• Mentor and coach other managers and staff, providing training, tools and techniques to enable others to achieve the highest of
standards, including risk assessment and manual handling.
• Facilitate and coordinate all aspects of Counter Terrorism actions that arise out of Counter Terrorism meetings and security
scoring as assessed by Counter Terrorism Policing.
• Hold a central database of compliance requirements, and engage with teams to ensure each are addressed in a thorough and timely
way.
• Coordinate and facilitate GDPR activity across the organisation both proactively, and when concerns arise.
Our commitment to your development
At The Glasshouse, we’re always learning. Through training and support, we’ll help you develop the skills and knowledge you need
to thrive in your role. This may be through gaining a qualification, on-the-job training or learning within your team.
We provide you with training in areas such as health and safety and safeguarding when you start work, and you’ll receive annual
refreshers.
Every staff member is on their own training and development journey. You’ll work closely with your manager to identify what your
journey will look like at The Glasshouse. If you have a specific interest or you would like to develop your skills in a certain
area, we want to hear about it.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion
At The Glasshouse, we encourage a working environment that’s welcoming, inclusive, and diverse. Different backgrounds, views and
experiences are valued so everyone can be themselves.
Our venue and programmes are for everyone, so we want to make sure this opportunity is available to everyone, no matter your
background or the challenges you’ve faced.
For example, we would love to hear from you if you:
• Are D/deaf. Have a disability, learning difficulty or significant long -term health condition which affects your daily life
• Describe yourself as neurodiverse (this might include dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, ADHD, autistic spectrum, and others)
• Grew up in a family receiving Universal Credit or state benefits
• Have ever lived in council or social housing or been on the housing register
• Have ever lived in sheltered accommodation or experienced homelessness
• Experienced being in care at any point in your life
• Have been a refugee or asylum seeker
• Are from the African, South, East and South–East Asian, Middle East, Latinx or North African diaspora, or have experienced
racism
• These are some common examples of challenging circumstances but there may be others. Everyone is welcome to apply.
• We do not discriminate because of race, colour, religion, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation or expression, age,
disability or any other protected characteristic as outlined in the Equality Act 2010.
Safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expect all of those
that work with us to share this commitment. We operate a robust safeguarding framework and continuous assessment and development
to support safer working practice across out workforce. Our roles are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes
relevant background checks and the disclosure of criminal records, sanctions, and investigations where appropriate.
Our application process
Closing date for applications: 9am, Friday 19th April
Interview date: 25th April 2024
We understand that interviews can be a nerve-racking experience. We want you to feel comfortable so you can be yourself and
shine!
If you have any questions about the role or the application process, please contact Lois, People Coordinator
at recruitment@theglasshouseicm.org [recruitment@theglasshouseicm.org]
Reports to: Audience Experience & Operations Manager
Location: The Glasshouse International Centre for Music
Department: Operations
Working hours: 36 hours per week
Salary: SCP 36, £36,012 per annum
Closing date: 9am, Friday 19th April
About The Glasshouse International Centre for Music
We are an international music centre based on the banks of the River Tyne. We are a unique venue where artists from across the
world perform and audiences from a wide range of backgrounds come to hear, make, and enjoy all types of music.
We support local people to be creative, to develop a passion for music and put music at the heart of communities. Our artist
development programme provides local artists with the opportunities they need to develop a career in music. We support young
people to make music in our building and in the wider community through programmes such as In Harmony Newcastle Gateshead.
We believe our work makes life better for people in the North East. We’re building a creative, diverse, and passionate team and
that’s where you come in.
About you
Are you self-motivated, happy working in a team environment and flexible enough to adapt to a changing environment? If this sounds
like you, here are some specific types of experience that will help you hit the ground running.
You must have proven experience of:
• Leading the health and safety function within a multi-faceted organisation for a minimum of two years.
• Engaging with all teams to create a culture of health and safety, ensuring teams are aware of their health and safety
responsibilities and are motivated to assess risk and work safely.
• Strong decision-making and problem solving.
• Leading change projects.
• Monitoring, investigating and reporting upon safety incidents, monitoring trends and making and delivering proactive
recommendations for change.
• Training others to upskill their safety knowledge e.g manual handling, creating risk assessments, fire safety.
• Setting up and monitoring compliance processes, to ensure regulatory requirements are met across all departments for example;
licensing, charity reporting, certification or similar.
Skills and knowledge:
• Methodical approach
• Good time management and well organised
• Highly motivated, with a positive attitude to lead and influence others
• Excellent communicator
• Project Management
• Coaching skills
• Training skills
• Living the organisational values with each decision and interaction
• Exceptional organisation and administrative skills and ability to multitask many complex projects to deadline
• Knowledge General Data Protection Regulations May 2018
• Excellent computer skills and knowledge of Microsoft Programmes
• Able to write policies and procedures that are accurate and effective
• Able to oversee action plans through to completion
• Good attention to detail
Qualifications:
• General NEBOSH
• IOSH Qualification
It also helps if you have:
• Training qualification or experience of delivering effective training
• GDPR expertise
• Working within a charity
• A passion for live music.
If you’re not a perfect match for the job description and criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are more interested in
your determination, positivity, and willingness to get stuck in.
About the role of Health, Safety and Compliance Lead
This is a key role within The Glasshouse International Centre for Music and divides into two sections.
1. Health & Safety – To lead Health & Safety for the organisation providing expertise, guidance and advice to teams, developing a
true culture of health and safety and continuous improvement.
2. Compliance –Ensuring that the charity, its employees and its projects comply with all relevant regulations and specifications.
This could include health and safety, environmental, legal or quality standards.
Overall purpose of the role
The purpose of this role is to hold the organisation’s health and safety and compliance processes and practices.
Work with teams to ensure that a culture of health and safety is lived by all. Guiding others to ensure safe processes and
practices are in place with excellent levels of supporting paperwork. Monitoring and ensuring incidents are investigated to
promote continuous improvement.
Lead all of the charity’s compliance requirements, engaging with teams to fulfil their responsibilities. This will include
collating and managing a database of all compliance requirements, and proactively monitoring actions and updates as and when
required.
Work with the Health, Safety and Safeguarding committee to ensure that organisation focus is maintained, and actions (both health
and safety and compliance) are being monitored and completed.
Providing analysis reporting and insights to the leadership team as a way to ensure leadership focus and overall improvement for
future practices.
Your responsibilities:
• Drive cultural change and behaviour, demonstrating best practice towards health and safety, and compliance.
• Continuously improve the organisations Health and Safety procedures, standards and processes.
• Lead the Health & Safety committee to deliver organisation change
• Keep up to date with changes in health & safety law and advice
• Ensure teams maintain compliance against latest legislative criteria.
• Ensure a zero incident culture within health and safety
• Work with teams to help them to embrace methods to reduce incidents leading to increased health in the team, leading to better
working environment
• Work with teams to define and monitor safe working procedures and risk assessment
• Conduct health and safety investigations where applicable and ensure actions are implemented with the support of the Senior
Management Team and Health & Safety Committee
• Set up and maintain controls and documentation procedures.
• Monitor performance by gathering relevant data and produce statistical reports.
• Review existing policies, ensuring that any changes and improvements are implemented.
• Measure performance and identify any areas of weakness, recommending and working with teams to implement improvements.
• Mentor and coach other managers and staff, providing training, tools and techniques to enable others to achieve the highest of
standards, including risk assessment and manual handling.
• Facilitate and coordinate all aspects of Counter Terrorism actions that arise out of Counter Terrorism meetings and security
scoring as assessed by Counter Terrorism Policing.
• Hold a central database of compliance requirements, and engage with teams to ensure each are addressed in a thorough and timely
way.
• Coordinate and facilitate GDPR activity across the organisation both proactively, and when concerns arise.
Our commitment to your development
At The Glasshouse, we’re always learning. Through training and support, we’ll help you develop the skills and knowledge you need
to thrive in your role. This may be through gaining a qualification, on-the-job training or learning within your team.
We provide you with training in areas such as health and safety and safeguarding when you start work, and you’ll receive annual
refreshers.
Every staff member is on their own training and development journey. You’ll work closely with your manager to identify what your
journey will look like at The Glasshouse. If you have a specific interest or you would like to develop your skills in a certain
area, we want to hear about it.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion
At The Glasshouse, we encourage a working environment that’s welcoming, inclusive, and diverse. Different backgrounds, views and
experiences are valued so everyone can be themselves.
Our venue and programmes are for everyone, so we want to make sure this opportunity is available to everyone, no matter your
background or the challenges you’ve faced.
For example, we would love to hear from you if you:
• Are D/deaf. Have a disability, learning difficulty or significant long -term health condition which affects your daily life
• Describe yourself as neurodiverse (this might include dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, ADHD, autistic spectrum, and others)
• Grew up in a family receiving Universal Credit or state benefits
• Have ever lived in council or social housing or been on the housing register
• Have ever lived in sheltered accommodation or experienced homelessness
• Experienced being in care at any point in your life
• Have been a refugee or asylum seeker
• Are from the African, South, East and South–East Asian, Middle East, Latinx or North African diaspora, or have experienced
racism
• These are some common examples of challenging circumstances but there may be others. Everyone is welcome to apply.
• We do not discriminate because of race, colour, religion, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation or expression, age,
disability or any other protected characteristic as outlined in the Equality Act 2010.
Safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expect all of those
that work with us to share this commitment. We operate a robust safeguarding framework and continuous assessment and development
to support safer working practice across out workforce. Our roles are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes
relevant background checks and the disclosure of criminal records, sanctions, and investigations where appropriate.
Our application process
Closing date for applications: 9am, Friday 19th April
Interview date: 25th April 2024
We understand that interviews can be a nerve-racking experience. We want you to feel comfortable so you can be yourself and
shine!
If you have any questions about the role or the application process, please contact Lois, People Coordinator
at recruitment@theglasshouseicm.org [recruitment@theglasshouseicm.org]
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