Health & Safety Manager in London

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships. We are committed to spend £16bn in the ten years to 2032, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.

We are looking for a Health and Safety Manager to join our People Operations team.

Health and Safety (H&S) is part of the People Team and our daily activities bring us to collaborate with all functions and departments in Wellcome. We are curious about our colleagues and their work so we can fully support their health, safety and wellbeing. While we take our roles very seriously, we strive to be approachable and engaging so we can meet our goals.

The Health and Safety Manager will work with the Health & Safety Lead to ensure that health, safety and fire safety are effectively managed and enhanced across our portfolio, comprising office building, Wellcome Collection inclusive of museum and library and off-site warehouse location. This is an operational role requiring a minimum of 3 days on site per week to support the effective roll out of policies and procedures ensuring compliance with health, safety and fire legislation, developing and delivering training, carrying out audits and inspections and ensuring accidents and incidents are appropriately investigated and followed up.

As a Health and Safety Manager you will:

• Support the development, implementation and continuous improvement of Wellcome Trust’s health, safety and fire safety strategy, policies and procedures.
• Provide expert health, safety and fire safety advice to stakeholders, ensuring risks are effectively identified, managed and mitigated.
• Maintain compliance with all relevant health, safety, fire and CDM legislation through effective risk assessments, documentation, audits and inspections.
• Lead the reporting, investigation, escalation and analysis of accidents and incidents, including RIDDOR reporting and trend analysis for senior management.
• Develop and deliver health and safety training programmes in partnership with L&D and external providers, ensuring accurate training records are maintained.
• Work collaboratively across teams and with contractors to promote a positive, inclusive safety culture while supporting wider organisational governance, budgets and operational priorities.

If you enjoy building strong relationships, influencing positive safety culture and working collaboratively across a diverse organisation, this role is for you. You will combine strategic thinking with hands on health and safety delivery, providing trusted advice, managing risk, leading audits and investigations and driving continuous improvement. This opportunity is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys problem-solving, communicates confidently with stakeholders at all levels and wants to make a meaningful impact within a purpose driven organisation.

Minimum Criteria:

• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent or willing to work towards completion and First Aid at Work certification along with previous experience of working with regulatory bodies e.g. Local Authority, Fire & Rescue Service.
• In depth knowledge of health and safety and fire safety regulations.
• Previous experience in a health and safety manager role, preferably within diverse environments is essential and experience in a visitor attraction or similar public facing sector would be highly desirable/advantageous.
• Experience of delivering high quality projects/pieces within tight deadlines.

Our Hybrid Way of Working: We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best. We are currently working 3 days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) from our Euston Road offices (as part of our hybrid Ways of Working) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office.

Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome. We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition.