Regional Health Safety & Security Manager in Southport

Based at: Aintree & Haydock Park Racecourses

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 40 hours per week

About the role

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Regional Health, Safety & Security Manager to join our Operations team based at Aintree Racecourse – home to The Grand National. This role will provide the overall day to day responsibility for the operational delivery of the security/stewarding/crowd medical provision for racedays and conference & events as well as being the site champion for Health & Safety.

About The Jockey Club

The Jockey Club stages thrilling sporting occasions and live events nationwide including The Grand National, The Cheltenham Festival & The Derby. Owning & operating 15 courses, millions of people every year enjoy the special experiences we offer through racing, music, food and entertainment on racedays and beyond. As the largest commercial group in British racing, we are guided by our mission to act for the long term good of the sport. Every penny we make goes back into racing to promote excellence within Britain’s second biggest spectator sport. Our people are what makes this possible. At The Jockey Club people are at the heart of what we do and drive our success. We are inclusive and actively seek to attract people with unique backgrounds and perspectives. Diverse, collaborative teams are pivotal to our success and support the potential and growth of all our people.

The Regional Health, Safety & Security Manager will:

• Lead compliance and licensing for all race days and events, ensuring adherence to the Licensing Act 2003, premises licences, and all relevant regulatory requirements.
• Champion health and safety across the racecourse, ensuring operations are risk-managed in line with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974, industry guidance, and best practice.
• Act as Safety Officer for race days, overseeing event safety operations, pre- and post-race checks, and ensuring consistent safety standards across regional sites.
• Manage relationships with key authorities including local councils, police, Safety Advisory Groups, and counter-terrorism teams to ensure safe, compliant event delivery.
• Lead event safety planning, including emergency, medical, and risk management plans for all race days, conferences, and large-scale events.
• Oversee security, stewarding, and medical provision, including contractor management, deployment planning, and training programmes for event personnel.
• Drive continuous improvement in safety standards through audits, risk assessments, fire safety reviews, and Health & Safety committee activity across the region.
• Maintain and update operational and safety documentation, ensuring racecourse operations manuals, policies, and procedures remain compliant and current.
• Support the implementation of the Group HSE Management System ensuring alignment with Group policies, procedures, and standards.
• Lead or support accident and incident investigations, ensuring that learning is captured and shared across the region.
• Monitor and oversee the completion of near misses and hazard reports to ensure actions are implemented and trends are identified.
• Conduct the bi-annual HSE assurance/compliance audits across the region and ensure actions are tracked through to completion.
• Support external audits and inspections (e.g. regulators, insurers or other third parties) and ensure any actions are effectively managed.
• Support the review and quality of risk assessments, method statements, and safe systems of work across regional operations.
• Promote positive safety leadership and engagement across the racecourses within the region.

About you

• Knowledge of health and safety planning and implementation.
• Proven experience of Health and Safety role within a commercial environment.
• A leading communicator comfortable influencing a wide range of stakeholders.
• A proactive approach to work with the ability to provide solutions to problems and see them through to fruition.
• Confident establishing and maintaining a positive and productive working environment with close working relationships.
• An excellent organiser with great planning skills and outstanding attention to detail.
• Level 4 NVQ in Spectator Safety qualification.

What we offer in return

• All colleagues can go along to any of our race day or music events free of charge – along with 3 friends or family with our TeamPass Ticket scheme.
• An award-winning pension scheme provider with a generous employer contribution.
• A healthcare cash back plan enabling you to claim money back on health & wellbeing services.
• 25 days annual leave.
• Access to a suite of Learning & Development training resources from renowned providers.
• A whole host of other benefits including free eyecare vouchers, a ride to work cycle scheme & discounts across varying retailers & services.

If you think you have everything we’re looking for and more, then we’d love to hear from you. Don’t hang around, our closing date for this vacancy is April 16th but we reserve the right to bring this forward if we have many applications.