Health, Safety & Wellbeing Officer (Highways & Transportation)

As a Health, Safety and Wellbeing Officer (HSW), working within Highways and Transportation, you’ll thrive on keeping people safe, ensuring safety standards remain high and legislation is adhered to., * Health, Safety & Wellbeing Support: Provide day-to-day health, safety, and wellbeing advice across the Highways and Transportation service area, ensuring a safe workplace and safe activities.

• Accident & Incident Management: Ensure the correct reporting and investigation of all accidents, incidents, and near misses in line with policies and procedures.

• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with the Corporate Health, Safety & Wellbeing Team on initiatives and liaise with Safety Representatives, both union and non-union, attending Safety Committees as required.

• Training & Development: Support the training and development of staff in health and safety procedures and competencies.

About the role

We are looking for a proactive and skilled Health, Safety & Wellbeing Officer to join our dynamic team. This is a pivotal role supporting managers and teams to create a positive culture around Health, Safety, and Wellbeing. Your expertise will drive compliance with statutory health and safety regulations and ensure alignment with Council policies, standards, and procedures, ultimately fostering a safe and supportive environment for all employees.

You will advise on best practices and compliance, conduct audits and risk assessments, manage consultations and develop performance metrics and reporting frameworks to assess health and safety management.

You’ll also oversee accident investigations and share findings to promote continuous improvement, lead corporate health and safety projects and facilitate local health and safety committees.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a positive health and safety culture in a forward-thinking organisation. If you are a dedicated professional with a passion for Health, Safety, and Wellbeing, we would love to hear from you., Support and advice managers to meet create a positive HSW culture and improve compliance with all statutory Health and Safety requirements and relevant Council Policies, standards and procedures., * Assist, lead and support teams and managers to provide health, safety & wellbeing advice on a day-to-day basis to ensure a safe workplace and activities across all sections of the service.

• Ensure all accidents, incidents and near misses are correctly reported, and provide support to investigation teams in accordance with our policies and procedures.

• Conduct regular reviews and provide summaries, analysis, and reports to support the management of risk, consultation, and improvement.

• Conduct manual handling, Personal Risk and COSHH plus PUWER assessments.

• Undertake internal monitoring/inspection of compliance and working practices to provide assurance that systems are operating robustly.

• Comply with all internal health, safety and wellbeing Policies, Procedures, Practices and Legislation.

• Assist with the training and development of staff across the Service on health and safety procedures and competencies.

• Work with and assist the Corporate Health, Safety & Wellbeing Team on a range of improvement initiatives.

• Liaise with union and non-union Safety Representatives and attend Safety Committees as required.

• Develop excellent relationships with key stakeholders in support of overall and local health and safety objectives, in particular managers at all levels, Trade Unions, HR etc.

The duties outlined are not meant as an exhaustive list and will also comprise any other duties within the spirit of the post commensurate with the job evaluation outcome for this post., * Understand and embrace Leeds City Council Values and Behaviours and codes of conduct

• Committed to continuous improvement in all areas and work towards delivering the Best City

• Ambition of Health & Wellbeing, Inclusive Growth and Zero Carbon

• Able to understand and observe Leeds City Council equality and diversity policies.

• Willingness to actively participate in training and development activities

• Flexible and adaptable to change to assist other services as required commensurate to grade.

• Participate in appraisal, training, and development activities.

• Be aware of and comply with Leeds City Council policies and procedures.

• Be aware of and support difference and ensure equality for all working in an anti-discriminatory manner, upholding, equality & diversity policies of Leeds City Council.

• Recognise and appropriately challenge any incidents of racism, bullying, harassment, victimisation, and any form of abuse, reporting any concerns to the appropriate person

• The Council has adopted a flexibility protocol, and the role will be expected to work within these parameters.

Qualifications A minimum of NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent.

Essential Requirements It is essential that the Candidate should be able to demonstrate the following criteria. Candidates will only be shortlisted if they can demonstrate that they meet all the essential requirements.

• Experience of working within a H&S role.

• Detailed knowledge of current health and safety legislation.

• Confident, well organised, with a flexible ‘can-do’ attitude, have attention to detail and be a team player who supports and influences others

• Excellent communication and organisation skills to encourage, educate and support colleagues make good HSW choices.

• Good IT knowledge and able to use a range of M365 and in-house applications.

• A full driving license is required for this role.

• Experience of workplace risk, compliance, legislation, data trend analysis and control measures to drive improvement and injury reduction.

• a competitive salary and annual leave entitlement plus statutory holidays

• membership of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund with generous employer contributions

• flexible and hybrid working arrangements subject to service requirements

• a clear career pathway and continuing professional development opportunities

• a range of staff benefits to help you boost your wellbeing and make your money go further

If you have any queries or would like an informal chat about the role, please contact Jason Boasman at Jason.Boasman@leeds.gov.uk