Health and Safety Lead

Health and Safety Lead Hospitality, Leisure and Child-Care – London Up to £55,000 plus Benefits Irwin and Colton have partnered with one of London\’s fast-growing family-oriented hospitality, leisure and child-care organisations, who are looking to recruit a Health and Safety Lead. This role is brand new to the organisation, and the first permanent health and safety professional to come onboard, in order to guide and lead the organisation through overall health and safety advancement, overseeing the likes of site development, customer safety and overall performance, reporting to the Senior Leadership and Operations team. The organisation has a variety of spaces within their commercial portfolio, such as commercial offices, accessibility to child nurseries, soft-play areas, restaurants, gymnasiums, swimming pools, as well as physiotherapy and wider wellness groups/classes. Responsibilities of the Health and Safety Lead will include: Strategically lead a culture of best practice health and safety across the business and property portfolio, ensuring regulatory compliance Provide expert guidance and leadership to the Operation Directors and engage with all staff across the organisation on health and safety issues Ensure activities across the portfolio are properly managed, risk assessed and regularly audited to evaluate performance Develop and manage the ISO-management systems, seeking opportunities to improve and enhance the overall health and safety strategy Ability to work with local authorities and implement legislation for the likes of food safety, security and safeguarding of childrenThe successful Health and Safety Lead will have: NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent) and relevant membership body Experience and knowledge of food safety is advantageous Proven experience in a similar role within a similar customer-facing environment, such as leisure, hospitality, or directly in child-care Experience and knowledge of delivering/supporting fire risk assessments Experience in influencing and engaging, from contractors to the internal staffThis is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly growing hospitality company, taking the role as their own. For more information on this opportunity or to discuss your next career move, contact Matthew Cathcart on +44(0) (phone number removed) or apply here. Irwin and Colton are a specialist Health and Safety recruitment company based in the Southeast of England we recruit across the UK. We recruit all roles in the health and safety industry from Health and Safety Manager, Health and safety Director through to Health and Safety Advisor positions. Irwin and Colton Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job, you accept the T&C\’s, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at (url removed)