Health & Safety Manager

Salary: Up to £55k depending on experience, pro rata
Role type: Permanent, 5 days per week, Monday to Friday. Part-time will be considered.
Location: Hybrid with some nationwide travel required, particularly to Cornwall and Kent
Reporting to: Director of Operations, Installs
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About Hometree Join Hometree at the most exciting moment in our story. Founded in 2015, we've become one of the fastest-growing challengers in the UK home services market, spanning home cover that protects the essential systems in the home, renewable installations like solar, batteries and heat pumps, and the financing that makes them affordable. Together, we help homeowners look after their homes and move to greener, lower-carbon living.
We're now going through the biggest step change in our history. By acquiring OVO Energy's Home Services division, including the trusted CORGI Home Plan and Home Heat brands, we're becoming one of the UK's leading home services groups, with fresh investment to fuel our next phase of growth. It's a genuine inflection point, and we're looking for people who want to help us build what comes next.
Key Achievements UK's third-largest home cover provider: our latest acquisition makes us the third-largest provider of home cover in the UK.
7 Acquisitions - We've expanded our operations by acquiring 6 key companies across financing (Hometree Finance - formerly Bewarm), Home Cover (Your Repair) and energy services (Geowarmth, The Little Green Energy Company, IMS and Green Gen). And we have most recently announced the acquisition of OVO Home Services and CORGI Homeplan (subject to FCA approval).
500k Homes Covered - We cover over 500 hundred thousand homes across the UK
550+ Employees - We have over 550 passionate employees transforming the industry across the Group, one home at a time

The Role You'll be the person responsible for health and safety across every business that installs for Hometree: heat pumps, solar, batteries and boilers, in homes all over the UK.
You'll set the standards, get out on site to see whether they're embedded, and put things right where they aren't. It's a broad brief with real autonomy, reporting straight into the Director of Operations, Installs and advising senior management through our Health and Safety Committee.
We're open on background. This is a step up for an experienced Health and Safety Advisor or Officer ready for their first manager role, and it's equally a good fit for an established Health and Safety Manager who wants the autonomy to shape a function rather than inherit one. Either way you'll have specialist technical support from our retained health and safety advisory provider behind you, and we're happy to invest in your growth and development as the role grows.
Responsibilities

• Build and embed the installer health and safety framework: policies, manuals, safe systems of work and emergency response plans, aligned to UK legislation, CDM 2015 and MCS scheme requirements, and built to support a Just Culture across the division
• Lead the relationship with our external health and safety advisory provider, drawing on their specialist expertise where you need it and making sure we get real value from it
• Run the risk assessment programme across both field activity (working at height, electrical isolation, refrigerant handling, manual handling, lone and remote working, driver safety) and premises (storage facilities, warehouses and installer offices, including fire risk assessment and racking inspection)
• Set, communicate and audit the health and safety standards our contractors and subcontractors work to, and verify competence at onboarding and in use
• Coordinate investigations into accidents, near misses and safety incidents: establish root cause, ensure RIDDOR compliance, produce toolbox talks and track corrective actions through to closure
• Spend time on site building relationships, coaching teams, constructively challenging unsafe behaviour and leading by example
• Design and deliver training for employees, contractors and subcontractors, and ensure sufficient trained resource across every installer business covering first aiders, fire wardens and local health and safety officers
• Run the audit and inspection programme, monitor compliance and maintain accurate documentation
• Report performance, incidents, trends and recommendations to senior management and the Health and Safety Committee, and advise on strategy, priorities and continuous improvement

What we’re looking for

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