Health and Safety Officer

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Grade H SCP 29 - £39,862 to SCP 34 - £45,091 with a professional bar at SCP 31 £ 41,771**

Hours Per Week: 36 hours

Base

Location:

Tame Street Depot, Stalybridge

Assessment Date
:
To be arranged

Tameside Council is looking for an experienced Health & Safety Officer who relishes the opportunity to take on a varied and challenging role. The Health & Safety Officer will work as part of a team supporting the Health and Safety Manager in providing a professional health and safety service to Council services and external clients. The role will facilitate effective management of health and safety risks, ensuring governance, statutory compliance and best practice.

It will also involve giving advice and support to Council employees for their health and wellbeing, contributing to the implementation of the Council’s Health & Wellbeing Strategy.

Applicants must have an excellent understanding of health and safety legislation and best practice, with experience delivering training, carrying out audits and inspections, completing accident investigations, and implementing safety policies and procedures. The role requires substantial experience working within health & safety in a large organisation, ideally within a Local Authority.

Come shape the future of Tameside with us!

Message from Julian Jackson, Director of Place at Tameside Council.

Since joining Team Tameside in September 2022, I’ve been proud to work alongside a hardworking and passionate team that’s making a real difference to our borough. Our Place Directorate is at the heart of shaping Tameside, covering everything from planning and highways to parks, culture, arts, environmental services, and facilities management. Whether it’s keeping our streets clean, improving green spaces, or driving forward exciting regeneration projects, our work makes a direct impact on the lives of residents and businesses every day.

We’ve already delivered some amazing projects, like Ashton Old Baths, and are currently working on master plans for our town centres in Stalybridge, Hyde, with projects like Ashton Mayoral Development Zone, and Godley Green Garden Village also set to create new homes, jobs and commercial spaces. But it’s not just about developments, day to day it’s about making sure our core services are modern, efficient, and able to support thriving communities and safeguard our heritage buildings and assets for the future.

To do that, we need passionate people to join us. If you want to be part of a team that’s driving real change, improving local services, and shaping the future of Tameside, we’d love to have you on board. Come and be part of something great. Let’s build the future of Tameside together!

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do.

We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

** This post is classified as being in a professional job category. As such the grade for the job has a professional grade development bar which employees can progress through subject to meeting the following criteria:

• Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above, AND
• Minimum of 2 years post…