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Package Description
What you'll do
As a Health and Safety (H&S) Adviser you will be supporting the Director of Health and Safety and Head of Health and Safety to deliver on the health and safety strategy for Notting Hill Genesis (NHG). Your role will help to develop and maintain high standards in health and safety for employees, customers and contractors and working and delivering on our better together strategy.
As an integral member of the Health and Safety team, you will drive a customer centric ethos and continuous improvement culture within our H&S team, ensuring all our services deliver the best outcomes for our residents.
How you'll do it
- Advise on H&S matters to various stakeholders.
- Responsible for promotion, communication and guidance across all safe working practises.
- Proactively promote a positive H&S culture across the organisation.
- Undertaking of H&S inspections amongst our stock and business areas.
- Development and reviewing of NHG health and safety policies and procedures.
- Undertake incident investigations and produce reports as required.
- Conducting DSE reviews and advising on recommendations and solutions.
- Reporting on RIDDOR incidents and Mandatory Occurrence Reports (MOR) to the HSE.
- Assist in maintenance of Health and Safety Management System
- Developing and maintaining relationships with external governing bodies.
- Development and delivering on H&S training when required.
The Ideal Candidate
We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation.
The position requires an individual with strong written and verbal communication to establish themselves in this role. You will be familiar with current health and safety regulations and hold a NEBOSH General Certificate accreditation (NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent being desirable).
In addition, you will need the following:
- Extensive experience of working within a H&S environment preferably within the housing industry.
- Experience of being a H&S adviser.
- Extensive working knowledge of H&S applicable statutory and regulatory requirements relating to this area.
- Have a membership with IOSH.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills for diverse audience engagement; work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders
- Proven ability to challenge, influence and persuade others whilst maintaining relationships and working in partnership.
What's in it for you?
Once you join us, you'll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You'll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.
Benefits include:
- Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply).
- Generous pension scheme.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply).
- Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
- Health cash plan.
- Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
- Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Life Assurance x 4 annual salary.
All about us
Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 60,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,500 staff.
For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:
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We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments. To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: (url removed)/diversity-is-our-strength/
Selection Process
Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now! Closing date is 26/01/25
Step 2: Successful candidates will be invited to an interview that will include a presentation.
Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via (url removed).
For any queries or questions regarding the job, please feel free to get in touch at (url removed).
NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.
Retinue Solutions is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Retinue Solutions is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
