Job description

Job responsibilities

Here at Hope House Children’s Hospices, Our Purpose is to ensure that every local child with a life-threatening condition has access to professional care, which improves the quality of their life from the point of diagnosis.

We have an exciting opportunity for a new Health and Safety Advisor to join our team based in Oswestry, working 22.5 hours per week, on a permanent basis.

In return, our Health and Safety Advisor will receive a competitive salary of £29,697 - £35,301 (FTE) per annum.

About the Health and Safety Advisor role:

Your role as Health and Safety Advisor is to help us deliver Our Purpose through developing a positive Health and Safety culture, where our children, families, staff, volunteers and supporters feel protected and their safety is maintained.

Your focus will be to provide concise, balanced, and pragmatic Health and Safety advice to the retail management team. You will also ensure that we operate a structured and compliant Health and Safety system designed around concise and coherent policies, procedures, and risk assessments, safe systems of work, training and compliance audits.

You will need to be able to travel across our retail estate throughout Shropshire, Cheshire and Mid and North Wales on a weekly basis, and for this reason a Full UK Driver’s License and access to a vehicle is required.

We are looking for a Health and Safety Advisor who:

• Holds or is working towards Technical Membership of IOSH TechIOSH (or equivalent)
• Has excellent organisational, communication and IT skills
• Can build relationships and influence at all levels
• Can draft concise and accurate risk assessments, procedures and safe systems of work
• Can contribute towards the development of policies and systems
• Can interpret technical law/ best practice and apply this through concise, pragmatic & balanced advice/recommendations
• Holds up to date knowledge of emerging H&S trends and best practices
• Has an understanding of HSE Management Systems and UK H&S legislation
• Can bring retail/service industry health and safety experience to the charity

About us:

As a valuable member of the Hope House team, we will support you with:

• Great career development, training and progression opportunities
• The opportunity to transfer your NHS Pension scheme or join our occupational pension scheme
• Flexible working opportunities
• Up to 33 days annual leave (increasing with long service up to 38 days)
• 1 Wellbeing leave day per annum
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• Counselling Support through Health Assured
• Practical support with your work through Access to Work
• Blue Light Card - Shopping and Leisure discounts
• Funded access Medicash Healthcare Cash Plans - including wellbeing services and treatments cashback, access to GP’s, discounted gym membership, and shopping discounts
• Access to a Bike to Work Scheme
• Subsidised meals in our hospices
• Free Hospice uniforms, DBS checks, flu vaccinations and car parking
• We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that will help you meet like-minded people

Closing date: 7th July

Interview date: 16th July

If you think you have what it takes to be our Health and Safety Advisor then please click ‘apply’ now! We are welcoming informal discussions with our Recruiting Manager Chris Head of Organisational Development contact us on 01691 679679. We’d love to hear from you!

Hope House and Ty Gobaith Children’s Hospices are committed to equality of opportunity and meeting the needs of children, young people and families. The care we provide and the environment we create to deliver care reflects our ongoing commitment to respecting the diversity of the communities we serve, and the individual physical, spiritual and emotional needs of each person and their loved ones.

Person Specification

Essential Qualifications

Essential

• Currently holds or is a student working towards Technical Member of IOSH TechIOSH within 12 months. (Could also be through NEBOSH affiliative membership to IOSH.)
• Demonstrable experience in a health and safety advisory role

Desirable

• Experience of managing H&S services in a retail environment (Desirable)

Essential Skills

Essential

• Excellent organisational and IT skills
• Outstanding communication skills
• Ability to build relationships and influence at all levels
• Drafting concise and accurate risk assessments and procedures and safe systems of work
• Contributing towards the development of policies and systems
• Interpreting technical law or best practice and applying this through concise, pragmatic & balanced advice/recommendations
• Training design and delivery and coaching skills
• Ability and willing ness to travel between our shops in Shropshire, North and Mid Wales and Cheshire on a weekly basis

Desirable

• n/a

Essential Knowledge

Essential

• Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel
• Up to date knowledge of emerging H&S trends and best practices
• Understanding of HSE Management systems
• Understanding of UK H&S legislation

Desirable

• n/a

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .

Employer details

Employer name

Hope House Children’s Hospices

Address

Nant Lane

Morda

Oswestry

Shropshire

SY10 9BX