Job title: Health, Safety and Wellbeing Officer
Salary: SO2 £37,280 - £39,152
Hours: 37
Contract: Permanent
Location: various locations across the city
As a Health, Safety and Wellbeing Officer in the Adults and Health Directorate, you’ll thrive in askilled, dedicated, and enthusiastic team, working in the health and social care sector as part of the wider diverse council.
Leeds City Council is one of the largest employers in the region with over 14,000 employees. We seek to recruit and develop talented individuals who embody our council valuesand ambitions.
About you
As a Health, Safety, and Wellbeing Officer you will have:
- Sound understanding of H&S legislation and requirements in a similar/ relevant environment.
- Experience of working in partnership with other agencies. (DEFRA, HSE, Contractors, RoSPA)
- Experience of problem solving, individually and in a group setting
- Highly self-motivated and ability to use initiative, when necessary
- Experience of producing risk assessments and supporting documents.
- The ability to carry out in house health and safety audits and support managers with accident investigations.
- Due to the nature of the job, the successful applicant must have excellent IT and organisation skills, as well as being confident liaising with people at all levels.
About the role
As our next Health, Safety and Wellbeing Officer you will be part of a large, dedicated team, working in varied environments.
You will provide a range of good quality, responsive and flexible health and safety support to a number of stakeholders, including service area staff and managers, to help them comply with health and safety legislation and good practice.
What we offer you
We take pride in offering the best employee experience, with benefits including:
- a competitive salary and annual leave entitlement plus statutory holidays
- membership of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund with generous employer contributions
- flexible and hybrid working arrangements subject to service requirements
- a clear career pathway and continuing professional development opportunities
- a range of staff benefitsto help you boost your wellbeing and make your money go further
How to apply
Apply for this job online. Please complete the online application form
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If you have any queries or would like an informal chat about the role please contact dawn.albentosa@leeds.gov.uk
A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check against the Children’s or Adults’ barred list as applicable will be carried out on preferred candidates. Read our recruitment of ex-offenders policy.
We welcome applications from everyone and actively seek a diverse range of applicants from all backgrounds and cultures. We particularly encourage applications from, but not limited to, women, carers, veterans as well as LGBT+, ethnically diverse, disabled and care experienced people.
This role is based in the UK. Home Office guidance states that candidates must evidence their right to work in the UK prior to commencing employment, either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa.
If you do not have the right to work in the UK, you must consider your own eligibility for sponsorship for a particular role through the Skilled Worker visaroute before applying. To be eligible for sponsorship you'll usually need to be paid the standard salary rate of at least £41,700 per year or meet one of the other eligibility criteria. Ensure you are eligible before applying.
Job Description
Job Purpose: Support and advise managers to create a positive HSW culture and improve compliance with all statutory Health and Safety requirements and relevant Council Policies, standards and procedures.
Responsibilities:
- Assist, lead and support teams and managers to provide health, safety & wellbeing advice on a day-to-day basis to ensure a safe workplace and activities across all sections of the service.
- Ensure all accidents, incidents and near misses are correctly reported, and provide support to investigation teams in accordance with our policies and procedures.
- Conduct regular reviews and provide summaries, analysis, and reports to support the management of risk, consultation, and improvement.
- Conduct manual handling, Personal Risk and COSHH plus PUWER assessments.
- Undertake internal monitoring/inspection of compliance and working practices to provide assurance that systems are operating robustly.
- Comply with all internal health, safety and wellbeing Policies, Procedures, Practices and Legislation.
- Assist with the training and development of staff across the Service on health and safety procedures and competencies.
- Work with and assist the Corporate Health, Safety & Wellbeing Team on a range of improvement initiatives.
- Liaise with union and non-union Safety Representatives and attend Safety Committees as required.
- Develop excellent relationships with key stakeholders in support of overall and local health and safety objectives, in particular managers at all levels, Trade Unions, HR etc.
- The duties outlined are not meant as an exhaustive list and will also comprise any other duties within the spirit of the post commensurate with the job evaluation outcome for this post.
Qualifications A minimum of NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent.
Essential RequirementsIt is essential that the Candidate should be able to demonstrate the following criteria. Candidates will only be shortlisted if they can demonstrate that they meet all the essential requirements.
- Experience of working within a H&S role.
- Detailed knowledge of current health and safety legislation.
- Confident, well organised, with a flexible ‘can-do’ attitude, have attention to detail and be a team player who supports and influences others
- Excellent communication and organisation skills to encourage, educate and support colleagues make good HSW choices.
- Good IT knowledge and able to use a range of M365 and in-house applications.
- A full driving license is required for this role.
- Experience of workplace risk, compliance, legislation, data trend analysis and control measures to drive improvement and injury reduction.
Essential Behavioural & other Characteristics
- Understand and embrace Leeds City Council Values and Behavioursand codes of conduct
- Committed to continuous improvement in all areas and work towards delivering the Best City Ambitionof Health & Wellbeing, Inclusive Growth and Zero Carbon
- Able to understand and observe Leeds City Council equality and diversity policies.
- Willingness to actively participate in training and development activities
- Flexible and adaptable to change to assist other services as required commensurate to grade.
- Participate in appraisal, training, and development activities.
- Be aware of and comply with Leeds City Council policies and procedures.
- Be aware of and support difference and ensure equality for all working in an anti-discriminatory manner, upholding, equality & diversity policies of Leeds City Council.
- Recognise and appropriately challenge any incidents of racism, bullying, harassment, victimisation, and any form of abuse, reporting any concerns to the appropriate person
- The Council has adopted a flexibility protocol and the role will be expected to work within these parameters.
