Health & Safety Officer in Cardiff

Health & Safety Officer

Job no: 510095
Work type: Full time
Salary: 40,583
Location: Cardiff, Newport, Swansea
Categories: Health & Safety
Job Description: Property & Investment

About the role

Join our Health & Safety team and play a key role in supporting colleagues and customers across the business to create safe, healthy and compliant working and living environments. This 37-hour per week role offers the option of a 9-day fortnight and the opportunity to work closely with teams across a wide range of services.

You’ll be supporting the business in safe ways of working and helping to ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of staff, customers and anyone affected by our activities. Providing day to day health and safety support across the organisation, carrying out audits and inspections, advising colleagues, and helping to manage risks effectively. You’ll also lead on key operational areas such as lone working, develop engaging training and learning materials, and spend time out and about working directly with teams to promote a positive safety culture.

This is a varied, people focused role that combines practical health and safety work with relationship building, training and continuous improvement. There is an expectation that much of your working week will be working face to face with our colleagues and customers.

Skills and Experience Needed

We’re looking for someone with experience in a health and safety compliance, advisory or assurance role, ideally within social housing, care, healthcare, property maintenance, or trades-based environments. You’ll possess a sound knowledge of health and safety legislation and be confident applying this knowledge in a practical and proportionate way.

You will work collaboratively with managers and teams to drive continuous improvement, you’ll be an excellent communicator with a can-do approach who can build positive relationships, influence colleagues at all levels and provide clear, practical advice. You’ll be comfortable influencing others and navigating situations where health and safety requirements and operational priorities need to be carefully balanced.

You’ll also be organised, able to manage competing priorities and comfortable working independently as well as part of a team.

To be successful in the role, you’ll hold a NEBOSH General Certificate and have experience producing risk assessments, carrying out audits and inspections, and supporting a proactive health and safety culture. Knowledge of landlord compliance, food safety, HACCP and infection control would also be beneficial. A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle are essential as travel across our services is required.

Values

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.

Perks, Benefits and a glimpse into our Codi world

This is a permanent 37 hour per week role and with a competitive salary, along with a great package designed to support you at work and beyond.

• £40,583 per annum

• 26 days holiday, pro rata entitlement plus Bank holidays. Rising to 31 days with an extra day for each full year of service.

• Continuous professional training and development

• Blue Light Card Eligibility giving discounts at 15,000 brands.

To explore the full range of benefits, perks and rewards, visit: Careers - Codi

FREDIE

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.