Health & Safety Advisor

£40,444 to £45,529 per year, Competitive

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

Yes

Closing Date:

20/09/2026

The Staffordshire Health, Safety and Wellbeing Service is a dynamic team of professionals specialising in health and safety, fire safety, and occupational health.

We provide responsive, supportive advice, guidance, and training to council services, schools, and academies as part of our traded offer.

Our team is innovative, creative, and motivated, continually striving to develop health and safety standards across our organisation.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and self-motivated person to join our service.

You will play a key role in driving the health and safety culture forward within a varied work environment, offering both responsibility and the opportunity to make a real impact across a broad range of services.

You will advise, monitor, and provide practical health and safety support across Children and Families services, with a particular focus on children’s residential settings.

This will include supporting risk management arrangements within residential homes, community-based services, and commissioned provider activities, alongside wider health and safety support to council services, traded customers, and partners.

This role is based out of Staffordshire Place but will work across the county at customer locations to suit business needs.

It is a full time role working Monday to Friday.

As part of the role you will act as Forward Control Officer in emergency situations and may on occasion be called out of hours to assist with such duties.

The main responsibilities of this role include:

Provide professional health, safety, and wellbeing advice and guidance to County Council Service Managers partnership organisations and customers.

Carry out health, safety, and wellbeing audits and produce detailed reports.

Promote risk assessment principles and active accident prevention.

Advise on risk management arrangements for our Health and Care teams and services.

Contribute to continuously improving standards in line with legislative changes and best practice.

Assist and support managers with the development and monitoring of health and safety in their teams.

Deliver and assist in the development of training across all aspects of health and safety.

Act as the key advisor to nominated areas of responsibility (service, business unit,). Lead or participate in allocated project work.

Act as the duty officer for the service on a rota basis, providing first point of contact advice to all customers and reviewing incident reports submitted.

For the purpose of shortlisting, the minimum criteria for the role are:

Hold a NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent qualification.

Have corporate membership of IOSH. Have comprehensive experience in a health and safety role.

Have experience of working in social care, health settings or similar relevant experience.

Have experience in audits, inspections, accident investigations, and implementing health and safety policies and procedures.

Be skilled in delivering health and safety training.

Be effective communicators, able to influence and use initiative to ensure compliance and continual improvement in a complex environment.

Be able to drive as travel across Staffordshire and occasionally outside the county is part of the role.

Interviews will be held week commencing 28th September 2026.

Our Recruitment Process:
We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered.

Please note:

The minimum criteria in the ideal candidate section detailed above will be used if you are applying under one of our Interview Guarantee Schemes, detailed below.

We are…