Health and Safety Business Partner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Health and Safety Professional to lead a team of H&S advisors and make a strategic impact at Hampshire County Council.

The Health and Safety Business Partner will join the Organisational Resilience Service, which delivers the Council’s key risk and resilience activities. You will manage a team of experienced and qualified H&S advisors tasked with embedding Health and Safety (H&S) best practices across business areas by partnering with senior leaders. This is a newly created role, with the opportunity to shape the H&S systems and culture across a large organisation.

What you’ll do:

• You will build relationships with key stakeholders to embed H&S practices, partnering senior leaders to understand challenges and drive improvements.
• You will focus on driving positive H&S cultural change through engagement and influence.
• You will provide sound H&S professional advice drawing on your extensive experience in industry, using data analysis to understand trends and risk profiling for H&S risks.
• The role includes leading H&S/Risk working groups to address challenges and develop improvement procedures.
• You will lead and manage the Corporate Health and Safety Team to ensure success across all H&S areas, delivering on a new team structure and way of working.
• You will ensure team practices are consistent with corporate direction and H&S regulations.
• You will drive team innovation by leveraging technology, AI, and automation within a new Corporate Model.
• You will improve internal H&S communications and develop strategies to ensure key messages are understood by all staff, using evidence to design solutions, measure impact, and continuously improve.

What we’re looking for:

Qualified to NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent level, you will bring a blend of H&S knowledge and experience with the ability to take people with you. You will use your strong stakeholder management skills to encourage ownership of H&S, your in-depth industry experience to provide professional advice and ability to drive change through innovation and continuous improvement.

Hampshire County Council is recognised nationally as one of the highest performing local authorities in the UK. A modern, forward-looking local authority, it offers a pleasant, supportive, and collaborative working environment.

There are many reasons why we are a great choice for your next career move:

• Hybrid working: This role is based in Winchester with a hybrid working arrangement consisting of office and home working, all to suit operational requirements.
• We are committed to inclusion, diversity and wellbeing. Staff are encouraged to get involved in a variety of internal Networks (BME, staff disability, Carers and working parents, and LGBT+) - see our Inclusion Strategy for further information.
• Flexible and family friendly working patterns such as compressed hours, flexi leave, accrued extra working hours and part time.
• Generous annual leave plus bank holidays and paid sick leave.
• Discounts for gyms, retailers, car hire, insurances, holidays, hotels, theatres, theme parks, restaurants, and eyecare.
• Opportunities to develop your skills and experience, informally, or formally.
• The support of a wider team who will value you and what you achieve.

Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) applies. We are a Disability Confident Employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.