Head of Health and Safety

Head of Health and Safety

Location - North East Wales

Duration - Interim for 3-4 months initially however this will be reviewed with the potential to extend further

Day rate - Negotiable depending on experience

Monday - Friday - 37.5 hours a week

Sellick Partnership are supporting a public sector organisation with the recruitment of a Head of Health and Safety to provide operational leadership and strategic oversight on Health and Safety, environmental and sustainability matters, ensuring the effective management of risk, compliance with statutory obligations, incident management, resilience planning and the delivery of a positive safety and sustainability culture across all activities.

Key responsibilities for the Head of Health and Safety

Provide strategic leadership and operational oversight of health and safety, environmental management and sustainability.
Ensure appropriate management systems, policies and procedures are developed, implemented, maintained and regularly reviewed.
Ensure compliance with relevant health and safety legislation, environmental regulations and statutory obligations.
Oversee the identification and management of significant hazards, ensuring appropriate risk assessments are completed and reviewed.
Ensure workplace safety inspections are undertaken at least annually, with appropriate action taken to address identified risks and areas for improvement.
Lead the effective management, investigation and reporting of incidents, ensuring lessons learned are identified and implemented.
Support organisational resilience through effective emergency preparedness, business continuity and resilience planning.
Champion environmental responsibility and sustainability, embedding good practice across organisational operations.

Leadership and people management

The postholder will be responsible for ensuring that employees within their area of responsibility receive appropriate guidance, training and development to carry out their duties safely and effectively.

They will promote a culture of continuous learning, accountability and professional development, supporting colleagues to achieve their objectives while maintaining high standards of performance, service delivery and wellbeing.

Key areas of Knowledge & Experience

Demonstrable experience of successful partnership and multi-agency working

Experience of applying risk management in setting strategy and in identifying and managing principal risks to achievement of objectives

Experience of successful project management and delivering services to set standards
Succesful track record of communicating with stakeholders and partners Qualifications

Leadership/management qualification and/or significant leadership/management experience
NEBOSH certification or willingness to work towards.
Chartered member of IOSHIf you feel you are well suited to the role or would like to discuss it further, please apply or contact Josh Meek at Sellick Partnership Ltd Derby office

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