Job Introduction
Are you passionate about making workplaces safer and helping people feel protected? We’re on the hunt for a new Health and Safety Advisor who’s ready to step in and support our Corporate Teams well as help the organisation to build great health and safety systems and engagement to ensure teams stay safe while they do amazing work.
If you’re someone who can foster a positive health and safety culture and enjoys getting stuck in, solving problems, and making a real difference, then this could be the role for you!
About Yorkshire Housing
You can probably already tell that we’re not your typical housing provider! With around 20,000 homes (and more in the pipeline), we’re on track with our growth plan to build 8,000 new homes across Yorkshire.
You’ll be joining a team that’s all about making a positive impact, not just for our colleagues but for the communities we serve. We’re committed to building safer environments where everyone feels protected, valued, and heard. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of health and safety at Yorkshire Housing and help create a lasting culture of safety excellence.
What will I be doing?
Reporting to the Health & Safety Manager, you'll be supporting on operational Health & Safety issues within our Corporate services team, this involves supporting the delivery of health and safety excellence for our People, Finance, IT, Governance and Customer Service Teams. We’ve broken down some key responsibilities here:
Supporting Safety Excellence: Help deliver best-in-class health and safety systems, from risk assessments to safe systems of work, training, coaching, health and safety promotions, inspections, accident/incident prevention and investigations, health and wellbeing programmes and building a great health and safety culture.
Training and Coaching: Work with team leaders to develop health and safety training needs and training plans, deliver health and safety training, toolbox talks, and coaching programmes, ensuring everyone knows how to work safely and feel safe.
Inspections & Audits: Conduct regular health and safety inspections and audits, ensuring compliance and promoting accident and incident prevention.
Accident & Incident Support: Help investigate accidents and safety concerns, providing practical solutions to prevent them from happening again.
Collaborative working: You’ll work with our corporate services line managers, team leaders and colleagues in delivering the highest standards of health and safety and promoting safe working practices and safe working environments.
What do you need from me?
- Experience in health and safety advisory roles, ideally in environments like social housing, residential property, or facilities management.
- Knowledge of personal safety, DSE & ergonomics, accident investigations and wellbeing initiatives.
- Strong communication and people skills – you’ll be training and working with colleagues at all levels.
- The ability to manage multiple tasks, solve problems, and meet deadlines.
- Experience using IT systems, databases, and Microsoft Office.
- A ‘can-do’ attitude, attention to detail, and the ability to work on your own initiative.
It would also be great if you hold a Health and Safety Diploma or NVQ Level 6 – with CertIOSH (or NEBOSH General Certificate with evidence of working towards Diploma/NVQ. Take a look at the Role Profile which has lots more details!
What’s in it for you…
This a full-time permanent role with a salary of £43,642.50, 25 days annual leave (rising annually to 30 days) plus Bank Holidays.
We offer a reward package to suit everyone. At YH, you can claim back for prescriptions, eye tests and more with our cash plan, make the most of a variety of retail discounts and take advantage of our pension scheme where we’ll match your contributions up to 9%, just to name a few.
Our people’s health and wellbeing are one of our top priorities, and you can make the most of our readily available wellbeing support package. This includes access to a library of free fitness classes, as well as an instant My GP service and free counselling sessions with a trained professional.
Now you’re really interested?
At YH, we’re actively building a working environment that’s inclusive as well as diverse, where everyone can contribute their best work and be themselves. We believe difference is what makes us stronger and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting communities we serve, so we welcome and encourage candidates from all backgrounds for this role.
We know that not all candidates will meet every single requirement. If you’re experience looks a little different from what we’re looking for and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you so please apply!
If you require any additional support with your application, or have any further questions please contact our fab recruitment team via email at recruitment@yorkshirehousing.co.uk
The fine print
The closing date for applications will be the 1st of December 2024, but we might close it early if we get lots of great candidates, so don’t hang around.
If you’re applying for this role internally, you must inform your current line manager (it’s the right thing to do!).
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