Health and Safety Advisor

About Us

Hull City Council established its Building Safety Team in 2024 in response to major legislative changes, including the Building Safety Act, Fire Safety Act, and Fire Safety (England) Regulations, introduced following the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Our team is dedicated to ensuring the safety of multi-occupancy dwellings across the city. This includes oversight of:

• 19 high-rise buildings
• 7 medium-rise buildings
• 4 sheltered blocks
• 445 low-rise blocks

In addition, we are responsible for the fire safety of all corporate buildings circa 160 units. We work in close partnership with the Housing Investment Team, which manages responsive and cyclical maintenance, specialist compliance works, planned improvement projects, and refurbishment schemes for a stock of 24,000 domestic properties. In addition, we collaborate with the High-Rise Tenancy and Facilities Management teams to deliver a comprehensive approach to building safety.

As a social landlord, we are particularly focussed on excellent customer care and support to persons living in our homes, aiming to provide the best possible customer journey/experience, and are always looking to tailor our service delivery to accommodate individual customer needs.

The Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Health and Safety Advisor (CDM) position within the Building Safety team. You will be responsible for providing dedicated Health and Safety (H&S) support and guidance on all building safety and construction related issues and to ensure legislative compliance. This will involve reviewing H&S legislation and leading on the development and maintenance of key H&S policies, processes, documentation, risk assessments and safe working procedures, to ensure HCC and its contractors are compliant with key legislation, particularly key duty holder responsibilities within the Building Regulations and Construction (Design and Management) Regulations.

You will also be responsible for the development of individualised H&S training plans for team members, identification of competence of colleagues and contractors and the development of service delivery plans for building safety within Hull City Council housing stock.

You should hold a degree or equivalent level of experience in H&S or related compliance field and have experience of delivering, monitoring and planning services at an operational level, alongside a good understanding of planning and project management. You must have good communication and interpersonal skills, be able to write structured and concise reports and procedures and be able to manage and lead a team effectively in a challenging environment.

Working Arrangements

This is a full-time, permanent role, 37 hours per week, which include a generous benefits package for working for Hull City Council, including the ability to work from home for part of the week, as appropriate, via hybrid working arrangements. The nature of this work allows for an interesting, rewarding, fulfilling and varied job, with many exciting challenges and obstacles to overcome, in an exceptionally busy environment. If you feel you have the required skills, knowledge and experience, are ready for a change or would like to further your career, this may be an opportunity for you.

Please ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria against the person specification as listed in the job description.

How to apply

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Rebecca Franks, Head of Service on 01482 616237 or rebecca.franks@hullcc.gov.uk. Please click below for further guidance on how to apply and benefits of working for Hull City Council.

We are committed to increasing the diversity, equity, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

We reserve the right to amend the dates associated with this advert, which may include closing the advert early where required. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

Hull City Council embraces the principles of WorkSmart and this post has been identified as a suitable role. WorkSmart principles create opportunities facilitating a combination of working in the office, ad hoc homeworking, or working from various locations, therefore being flexible about where/ how you carry out your role, the specific opportunities available will be discussed at interview.