Health and Safety Advisor

This is a fantastic opportunity for a passionate Health and Safety Advisor to join a well-established Health and Safety Team with a varied health and safety portfolio based from our Head Office at Stockport with travel across the country. You will work with many different teams across Creative Support to help services undertake work activities in a safe way. You will provide advice, support services and go out to our services around the UK. You will be expected to work closely with colleagues to support Creative Support’s health and safety and risk management policies, procedures and systems.

The main focus of your role will be to:

• Conduct planned health and safety inspections and audits
• Carry out responsive inspections and safety reviews
• Undertake specific risk assessments and devise risk management plans
• Produce written inspection and other reports on a timely basis
• Contribute to health and safety related training
• Provide practical and professional health and safety advice and assistance to staff.

You will need the following qualities and skills:

• You enjoy helping people and solving problems
• You have excellent attention to detail
• You have some knowledge of social care or property services.
• You are confident using Microsoft Word, Excel and databases.
• You display a professional and confident approach in dealing with people.
• Good written communication skills
• You will need to be flexible and adaptable.
• You’re happy with travelling to different locations and complete on-site inspections and visits
• Experience of working within a health and safety role or compliance role would be an advantage.

This role offers the chance to work within a rewarding environment and have the responsibility of supporting and managing the Health and Safety function while making improvements to process, practices and procedures. This role will require you to spend time away from the office in services during the week. The general working pattern will be Monday to Friday with very occasional travel on the weekend. The working pattern and hours are flexible due to the nature of the role however you must be prepared to travel and work from the office. This role is also open to candidates who would like to job share.

We will support employees to complete the NEBOSH Award if not already achieved.

Other benefits include:

• Comprehensive induction
• Ongoing fully funded professional training to develop your career.
• Friendly, open, flexible work culture
• Mileage allowance or travel and hotel expenses reimbursed
• 33 days annual leave per year, inclusive of bank holidays
• Company sick pay scheme
• Electronic ICT equipment provided
• Free Life Insurance Scheme
• Weekly management support from the Health and Safety Manager
• Full Corporate Support from an established Not for Profit Provider
• Exclusive online retail discounts scheme
• Free Employee Assistance service

Permanent contract/ Full-time up to 37.5 hours or Part time minimum of 22.5 hours per week.

About Creative Support: Creative Support is a dynamic, charitable organisation providing support to individuals with a wide range of care and support needs across England. We are also a Registered Provider of Social Housing with over 1,000 tenants with support needs in properties that we own or manage. We are regulated by the CQC and HCA and must demonstrate high standards of health and safety compliance. As a large employer of over 5,000 staff we seek to promote high standards of safety awareness and good practice.

Applications for this role must be submitted via the Creative Support website.

We are a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organization - Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received Investors in People Gold awarded. Applications are reviewed as they are received, we do not provide feedback for unsuccessful applications. We can only accept applications from candidates who are located in and eligible to work within the UK.