Health & Safety Adviser

Location: Ashington (base office) with agile working across all of Bernicia’s offices and geographical operational areas.

Salary: Up to £43,282 per annum (inclusive of car allowance) depending on skills and experience

Hours: 37 per week, Monday to Friday

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 5pm on Monday, 25th May 2026

Are you passionate about health and safety and want to make a real difference to the environment of colleagues, customers and contractors? If so, we have a new opportunity for 2 Health and Safety Advisers!

Role Benefits:

• 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) for full-time employees.
• Working from home up to 2 days per week subject to operational requirements.
• Health cash plan membership so you can save money by claiming cash back – over £1000 each year - towards essential healthcare such as dental, optical, physio and loads more. We’ll also cover the costs of including any dependent children in the scheme – up to the age of 21 or 24 if in full time education – that you may have.
• Access to savings on gym memberships plus cash back and discounts on purchases from major retailers including supermarkets, travel, cinema and more.
• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3 x salary.

About the Health and Safety Adviser Role:

This role will involve:

• Undertaking a full range of health and safety and related admin duties across Bernicia. This includes liaising regularly with all of our stakeholders, auditing, providing advice and guidance, developing and reviewing risk assessments, accident/incident investigation, supporting our H&S training programme, contributing to the delivery of our values and developing a strong culture embedded in safety, health and welfare.

Your Experience:

Successful candidates will need:

Essential:

• NEBOSH General Certificate as a minimum with intention to work towards and obtain NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent.
• A proven track record as an accomplished Health and Safety professional.
• Auditing skills and experience, relevant to this role including maintaining audit action plans.
• Able to effectively coordinate several workstreams at once, delivering on project work from start to finish and advising on key milestones throughout.
• Proactively manage development opportunities to keep knowledge, skills, experience and continuous professional development up to date.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office.
• Good communication skills and a collaborative approach, with the ability to engage and influence others.
• Good standard of literacy and numeracy for reporting writing and data analysis.
• Be a role model for our values and behaviours.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and deliver to deadlines.
• Takes accountability and works with minimal supervision.
• Current and valid driving licence and access to a car to use for work purposes.

Desirable:

• NEBOSH Construction Certificate.
• Willingness to develop experience in particular fields of health and safety such as construction, and COSHH.
• Membership of a professional body and willing to participate in evidencing continuous professional development.
• Experience of working in a social housing or construction environment.
• Experience of delivering engaging Health and Safety training.

About us:

We’re all about helping people in need of housing. We believe a good home makes lots of other things possible, so we provide great homes and services that do just that.

We’ve built Bernicia to be a business that people want to be a part of. We’re one of the North East’s largest and most successful housing providers; building, renting, selling and managing homes as well as providing services to over 60,000 customers.

We operate within a set of simple, but effective values, which blend perfectly to create our unique ‘Bernicia Way’ culture. This ensures we are customer focused, through working together, respecting each other, being accountable for our actions and demonstrating integrity and leadership.

In order to be considered for shortlisting for this role, you must include a covering letter demonstrating how you meet the criteria associated with this post along with your CV.

Interviews will be taking place week commencing 1st June 2026 at Ashington.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than advertised, should we receive a large volume of applications.

The Group is fully committed to the promotion of equal opportunities and we particularly welcome applicants from groups who are currently under-represented at Bernicia.