Senior Specialist Health and Safety Advisor

This role is within a unit where Surrey Police and Sussex Police work in collaboration, whilst remaining two separate legal entities/employers with different terms and conditions. Both Surrey Police staff and Sussex Police staff are employed in this unit on their own force terms and conditions. Successful candidates may be appointed on the terms and conditions of employment of either Surrey Police or Sussex Police, depending on organisational requirements. A discussion will be held with the successful candidate to confirm the details of location, salary, allowances and hours.

Division / Department: Forcewide

Grade: Surrey Police Level 1 / Sussex Police M1

Status: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary Grade Range: Surrey Police £44,053 - £57,478 / Sussex Police £49,716 - £54,696

Working Hours: 37.0 Hours per Week

Shift Allowance: No

Politically Restricted: No

Location: Forcewide

The starting salary for this role will usually be at the bottom of the salary range and will be pro-rata if the working hours are less than full time.

The Role & Key Responsibilities:

In this role you will be working to support operational policing to manage health and safety in a high risk and professionally interesting environment. You will work with police officers to manage complex safety risks and find solutions which allow officers to take the risks they need to, to keep the public safe. The areas you will be working with will be focused on operational policing and include departments such as Tactical Firearms, Roads Policing, Dogs, Public Order and Neighbourhood Policing. There may be occasions when you will be required to provide health and safety advice in relation to major incidents. You will be part of the Health and Safety Service who support Surrey Police and Sussex Police with colleagues who will support you in undertaking your role and your professional development.

Qualifications Skills & Experience:

• Able to demonstrate competence to carry out the role as required by the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations. This is through a combination of relevant experience and qualification. This could include, but is not limited to:

• NEBOSH Diploma or degree level health and safety or similar qualification.
• Working towards Cert IOSH / Chartered membership of IOSH.
• Good general secondary education to GCSE / A Level or equivalent.

Knowledge, Skills And Experience:

• A policing, military or working in a similar high risk environment would be useful in demonstrating suitable knowledge, skills and experience.
• Specialist knowledge of particular hazard areas and associated health and safety law and the ability to develop new specialisms in relation to service demand and to lead on advice in relation to them.
• In depth knowledge and experience of health and safety risk management in the police service or other similar multi-disciplined high risk environment.
• Robust problem solving skills with the ability to provide realistic solutions in a timely manner.
• Good personal time management, planning and organisational skills with the ability to effectively adapt as necessary with organisational change.
• Confidence and competence to support and guide other members of the service, for example health and safety advisors and assistants.
• Provide specialist advice across all health and safety matters to all ranks and grades of the collaboration.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills with the ability to provide specialist advice across all health and safety matters to all ranks and grades of the collaboration.
• IT literate in Microsoft programs, particularly Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Why Work With Us?

Policing is an exciting 24/7 business and we all have commitments outside work. We are invested in supporting people to balance their life with work and we encourage flexible working. We are open to conversations about job shares and part time working. We encourage agile working, giving you the opportunity to manage your own diary and work wherever you give the best service to the public. This may include flexi-time and home working. We take pride in looking after our people and offer a variety of benefits:

• Career progression
• Contributory pension scheme (LGPS)
• Generous annual leave allowance
• Discounts for everyday spend
• On-site gyms and a range of sports clubs
• Generous and supportive parental leave
• Financial and mental wellbeing guidance and support
• Discounted contributory healthcare scheme

Diversity Statement:

We are only as good as our people. It’s important that our officers and staff can be themselves in the workplace and we know that as an organisation we’ll grow from the variety of thinking, approach, and the skills that diversity brings; all of which help us to deliver a better policing service. We strive to ensure how we deliver our services, provide information and how we recruit is open and accessible to all. We have multiple staff support groups who help to improve our understanding of minority issues and ensure they are reflected in our work. We are proud members of Disability Confident, hold Race Equality Matters Trailblazer status, are a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and are aligned with the Armed Forces Covenant and the HeForShe movement. We are committed to being an anti-racist police service. We promise to challenge injustice, ensure fairness and to uphold anti-racist principles in both our organisation and our communities. We value the differences that people bring from all backgrounds and communities. Regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, disability, social status, or religious belief, we would love to hear from you.

Additional Information:

Following submission of your application you will receive a confirmation email with a copy of your application attached. Occasionally emails from this address can fall into spam/junk folders so please ensure this is checked regularly. You may wish to consider adding to your address/contact list to ensure you receive all communications. This post is being advertised in parallel with Force redeployment processes. Any redeployees who are identified will be given preference. This may result in the post being withdrawn at any point during the recruitment process. Please note that not all jobs are available for internal candidates across both Forces, the current agreed recruitment principles are; vacancies in collaborated units are available to all officers and staff across both Forces vacancies in non-collaborated units are only available to officers and staff within the Force with the vacancy unless it is advertised externally if the vacancy is advertised externally and an officer or member of staff from the other Force is successful it will result in a transfer of employment. Surrey Police and Sussex Police Special Constables, Volunteers and Agency Staff (excluding self-employed workers) covered under the Agency Worker Regulations (AWR) are eligible to apply for internal advertised posts.