Health & Safety Business Partner

We’re recruiting a proactive, customer‑focused Health & Safety Business Partner to lead the H&S partnership for Place & Sustainability. This portfolio includes complex, high‑risk operations such as highways projects, guided busways and CDM‑regulated work, where strong health and safety leadership is essential to protect our people, communities, and the Council’s reputation.

You will be the trusted H&S lead for P&S—building effective relationships with service leaders, project teams, and trade union colleagues—providing specialist advice, challenge, and assurance that our Safety Management System and statutory duties are robust and working in practice.

• Partnering & assurance: Act as the dedicated Health & Safety Business Partner for the Place & Sustainability services, attending management forums and project boards to anticipate risks and embed pragmatic, practical controls.
• Risk management & compliance: Lead on service‑specific risk assessments (including depot and site activities), CDM compliance, contractor management, and regulatory interfaces.
• Audit & improvement: Plan and deliver compliance audits across P&S; agree action plans and track delivery with accountable managers.
• Incident learning: Support investigations, identify root causes and trends (including RIDDOR), and translate lessons into measurable improvements.
• Training & capability: Design and deliver targeted H&S training and briefings to build managerial competence in P&S’s operating environments.
• Reporting & governance: Provide timely reports and insights to directorate and corporate H&S & Wellbeing groups, contributing to Council‑wide governance and culture.

Qualified: NEBOSH Diploma (or equivalent) and up‑to‑date knowledge of H&S legislation and industry standards relevant to infrastructure and construction.

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage:

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family.
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme.
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances.
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings.
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth.
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day.
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards.
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes.

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do. We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities.

If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered.

We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager to discuss any adjustment needs.

Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.