Health and Safety Adviser

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Job details

Job title Health and Safety Adviser Job reference 000012361 Date posted 21/07/2026 Application closing date 04/08/2026 Working Pattern Blank Salary Grade H SCP 26 - 29 £37,280 to £39,862 a year. (Subject to increase with pending NJC Pay award) Contractual hours 37 Basis Full time Job category/type Health & Safety Attachments Blank Job description

Location: Council House
Hours: 37 hours per week
Closing Date: 04/08/2026
Contract Type: Permanent

At Derby City Council, we are committed to ensuring the health and safety of all our employees and customers.
We have an exciting opportunity to join the Council’s Corporate Health and Safety Team. You will play a key role in delivering ‘safety beyond compliance’ by supporting services to manage their health and safety risks in a proactive way by delivering impactful change and assurance that services are managing their H&S responsibilities.

Who We Are

Here at Derby City Council, we’re dedicated to delivering nearly 250 first-class services to citizens and businesses in the heart of the Midlands. People are at the centre of all that we do, and we have an outstanding track record of recruiting and developing talented individuals by providing them with varied and fulfilling career opportunities. Find out more about what it’s like to work for us.

What We Offer

• Flexible work/life balance scheme
• Hybrid working
• Modern office environment
• Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations
• 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years' service), plus bank holidays
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Team Derby Rewards - retail and leisure discounts
• Tusker Car Benefit Scheme
• Cycle2Work Scheme & free cycle training
• Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Calendar and Support
• Access to our Equality Employee Networks - LGBTQ+, Disabled Employee Network & Carers and our Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Employee Support Network and Neurodiversity Network
• Support for colleagues who are carers

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Corporate Health and Safety Team Manager you will work closely with health and safety team colleagues and all council services.

You will:

• Provide strong, bold, visible, proactive, and functional health and safety leadership
• Deliver high quality, professional advice and proactive support
• Influence and empower services to shape and implement robust health and safety plans that drive performance improvements where required
• Develop policies and processes to assist and enable the council to comply and achieve improved outcomes
• Undertake health and safety audits and inspections ensuring that preventive actions are implemented
• Undertake accident /incident investigations

About You

You will be:

• Progressive and forward thinking
• Highly engaging and have a compelling communications style
• Demonstrate experience of managing risk
• Ambitious and results driven
• Take ownership of health and safety issues and empower others to do the same
• Able to work supportively in a team environment and able to effectively work independently
• Demonstrate you care about what we want to achieve

Applicants must hold at least the minimum of the NEBOSH Diploma or an equivalent level qualification in Health and Safety and current membership of a relevant health and safety professional body such as the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) or the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management (IIRSM).

Next Steps

The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on 04 August 2026. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.

Interviews will be held: on Wednesday 19th August 2026, in person at the Council House, here in Derby.

Important Information

Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below.

All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job.

Before you complete your application, please read our guidance on filling in your application form.

Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification.

Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.

We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.

Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we’ll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality.

If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01332 640844 (Relay UK - 18001 01332 640 844) or at recruitmentteam@derby.gov.uk . https://www.derby.gov.uk/signing-service/

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