Job Title: Quality Health Safety and Environment (HSE) Advisor
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £43,785
Working Hours: Full time 35 hours per week
Working Pattern: Monday to Friday
Location: London/Hybrid
For your application to be considered please attach a current CV and cover letter.
Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.
Why Riverside?
At Riverside, we’re a housing association with a difference – enhancing the everyday for all our customers. For 90 years, we’ve been revitalising neighbourhoods and supporting communities by providing the homes they need to live full, fulfilling and rewarding lives.
We have a portfolio of over 75,000 affordable residential and retirement homes across the UK. Our work ranges from homelessness services to social care, employment support to retirement living, and we need the best people on board to help us.
Working with us, you’ll enjoy:
- Competitive pay & generous pension
- 28 days holidays plus bank holidays
- Flexible working options available
- Investment in your learning, personal development and technology
- A wide range of benefits
Diversity and Inclusion at Riverside:
We are inclusive. At Riverside, we value diversity in all its forms. We foster a workplace where all individuals are respected, empowered, and heard. Our commitment to inclusivity drives our success and enriches the lives of our customers and colleagues.
Application Process:
If you share our values and are excited about making a significant impact as a HSE Advisor we encourage you to apply with your CV and cover letter.
We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the criteria on the job description, at Riverside we recruit to potential not just on skills and experience.
The difference you will make as the HSE Advisor:
You will work with the Head of HSE at Riverside Property Services to develop and implement strategies for health, safety and environmental sustainability and improvement across Riverside Property Services (RPS). To identify health, safety & environmental problems and opportunities and clearly communicate solutions and initiatives across RPS. Work with employees to ensure risks in the workplace are properly controlled and impacts on the environment are minimised.
About you
We are looking for someone with:
- Minimum NEBOSH Certificate accompanied by relevant experience.
- Membership of relevant professional body e.g. IOSH, IIRSM etc.
- Competent in audit and inspection processes including report writing and development of action plans.
Job Purpose
To work with the Head of HSE at Riverside Property Services to develop and implement strategies for health, safety and environmental sustainability and improvement across Riverside Property Services (RPS). To identify health, safety & environmental problems and opportunities and clearly communicate solutions and initiatives across RPS. Work with employees to ensure risks in the workplace are properly controlled and impacts on the environment are minimised.
Role requires you to:
Strategy and Service Development
- Assist the Head of HSE in Riverside Property Services to implement the overall strategy for health, safety and environmental sustainability improvement across the organisation.
- To implement the delivery of the Riverside / Riverside Property Services Health & Safety and Environmental Policies
- Promote good health, safety, and environmental practices across all Riverside activities.
- Assist in the delivery of standardised systems and procedures for the effective management of the organisations health, safety and environmental performance. Including ISO45001
Service Delivery
- Ensure that the operational teams within Riverside comply with policies and procedures relating to all aspects of health, safety and environmental management.
- Ensure a high level of customer service for all employees and managers when providing health, safety and environmental support.
- Carry out or arrange workplace health and safety audits and ensure that any remedial recommendations are implemented. This will require travel to sites across the Southern region.
- Investigate or arrange for all accidents and near misses to be investigated, prepare reports on findings, including recommendations to prevent recurrence and implement approved courses of corrective actions. Where necessary prepare report to external authorities as required by RIDDOR
- Maintain accident statistics, analyse trends and propose and take remedial action where necessary.
- Provide support and advice to the Health and Safety Committee
- Liaise with recognised trade union officials and carry out regular safety inspections in conjunction with trade union appointed safety representatives.
- Provide general Health and Safety Advice •Carry out DSE assessments as required.
- have a flexible approach to covering general health and Safety advisor duties,
- Engage with managers and employees within the organisation to improve the health, safety performance of the organisation.
- To ensure that health and safety requirements are complied with in accordance with Riverside’s policy and procedures and statutory requirements, through a range of onsite visits and inspections.
- To ensure compliance with Riverside’s Equality and Diversity policy, in respect of employment and service delivery
- Ensure that all data is compliant with legislation and policies relating to date quality.
Person Specification
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential:
- Minimum NEBOSH Certificate accompanied by relevant experience.
- Membership of relevant professional body e.g. IOSH, IIRSM etc.
- Competent in audit and inspection processes including report writing and development of action plans.
- Experience of working with Health and Safety & Environmental management systems including ISO9001 ISO45001 and ISO14001
- Competent in the use of IT Platforms such as Microsoft Word and Excel
- High attention to detail.
Desirable:
- Experience in Care and Support environment
- Fire Safety qualification
Additional Information:
- Travel to site locations across all parts of Southern region (Leicester to London). This role will be predominantly on-site with some flexibility for homeworking.
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