Head of Health & Safety in Cardiff

Join us to lead and shape our Group Health & Safety function as the organisation’s appointed Competent Person. In this pivotal role, you’ll set the strategic direction while ensuring excellence in everyday delivery, championing a strong, positive safety culture across our properties, customers and workforce. You’ll drive continuous improvement by designing and embedding robust Health & Safety strategies, systems and assurance frameworks that go beyond compliance. Leading and inspiring a skilled team, you’ll provide high‑quality, pragmatic advice in line with the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations, CDM Regulations, the Building Safety Act (Wales), Renting Homes (Wales), and all relevant statutory requirements—helping the organisation manage risk confidently while keeping people safe.

Codi is a not-for-profit with a big heart and an even bigger mission. As Wales’ largest provider of housing, care, and support, we’re here to help people live well, feel supported, and rise to their full potential. We look after almost 25,000 homes across Wales and are gearing up to build more than 4,500 new ones in the next five years. Every day, our teams support nearly 17,000 individuals with services that make a real and uplifting difference to people’s everyday lives. With over 3,000 passionate colleagues, Codi is a major player in the Welsh economy—powered by strong partnerships, shared values, and a genuine love for helping communities thrive.

This full‑time, permanent role offers the flexibility of agile working and the opportunity to drive real, lasting impact on Health & Safety across the whole Group. Working closely with the Group Property & Health & Safety Director, you’ll drive our strategy, strengthen governance, and ensure we stay ahead of legislation and best practice. You will lead the Health & Safety function, delivering high-quality, compliant services across our diverse environments — from corporate offices and homes to care, support, trades and community settings. You’ll also play a vital part in incident response — acting as an out-of-hours contact for serious events — and work collaboratively with regulators including HSE, Fire & Rescue and Local Authorities.

We’re looking for an accomplished senior Health & Safety leader with a strong track record in complex, multi‑site organisations—ideally within housing, care or the public sector—who thrives in environments where safety, compliance and culture truly matter. You’ll be confident operating at executive level, providing clear, credible assurance to Executive Teams and Boards, and offering sound judgement, insight and challenge when it counts most. A natural, people‑centred leader, you’ll have experience leading multi‑disciplinary Health & Safety teams, driving meaningful cultural change, elevating performance and building long‑term capability across an organisation. You’ll bring strong expertise in CDM, building safety and property compliance, with proven experience overseeing safe systems of work, contractor assurance and compliance‑driven operations within complex environments. You’ll also hold a degree‑level Health & Safety qualification—such as an MSc, NCRQ Level 6 or NEBOSH Diploma—providing the professional credibility and technical foundation required to lead at this level. Above all, you’ll be motivated by influence, improvement and making a real difference—bringing confidence, integrity and a genuine passion for keeping people safe.

At Codi, our values are Compassionate, Authentic, and Progressive. When you join us, you’ll embrace these principles and thrive in an environment shaped by them.

Pay and Pensions: £71,526.00 per annum. Pension Choices: Defined Contribution (DC) Scheme with matched contributions up to 10%. Defined Benefit (DB) 1/80th of final salary for every year of service. 3 x Life Cover linked to pension membership. Saving scheme with competitive interest rate. Give As You Earn scheme for tax efficient charity donations. From 1st April 2026 the option to be either weekly or monthly paid.

Time off and Flexibility: 26 days holiday, pro rata entitlement plus Bank holidays. Rising to 31 days with an extra day for each full year of service. Flexible working opportunities dependent on role. Maternity & Adoption Leave: 20 weeks. Paternity Leave: 3 weeks.

Wellbeing: Sick Pay, rising with length of service up to 6 months full pay after 4 years. Eyecare: Up to £100 reimbursement towards eye tests and glasses. Free counselling, coaching, wellbeing team, and OH service to all colleagues. Annual Health Check. Health Cash Plan.

Getting Around: Mileage paid at 45p plus 5p per passenger per mile. Salary sacrifice Electric Vehicle Lease Scheme (subject to eligibility). Cycle to Work Scheme.

Personal Development: Continuous professional training and development. Leadership development programmes. Professional memberships needed for your role are reimbursed. Career coaching. Support with funding and time for qualifications.

Perks and Recognition: Long Service Awards. Blue Light Card Eligibility giving discounts at 15,000 brands. Colleague Discount platform.

At Codi Group we are guided, in all that we do, by a group of principles that we call FREDIE, these are: Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, Engagement. This means that whatever your background, you will have an equal opportunity to rise with us and we encourage you to apply now.

If you would like any support with your application or to discuss any adjustments that you may require to support you to application process, please contact talent@codigroup.co.uk or 0300 373 5262.

If you have the skills and experience required, please follow the prompts to apply now. Interviews are planned for 2nd and 3rd March 2026, which will consist of a panel interview and 10‑minute presentation.