As our Health and Safety Adviser you'll provide support to teams across the business, playing a key role in the successful implementation of our safety management systems in our Retail division offices and other directorates.80% of your time will be tobuild and maintain relationships with a range of levels of management within our Retail division and their supporting functions, with the remaining 20% supporting our office and field staff.
Playing a key role to embed the safety management systems with all our teams and assisting with policy development and communication, you'll support the H&S manager(s) to develop regular reports based on data and insight to improve the safety and wellbeing culture across the organisation.You'll also be responsible for developing and monitoring standards through H&S inspectionsand audits within directorate premises to provide assurance on compliance with legislation and BHF policy.
Working arrangements
Please note that this position is homebased with frequent travel to our Retail premises and offices. There will also be a requirement to support with fundraising events which may occasionally require working on a weekend.
As this role will cover BHF's northern region, which spans from themidlands, north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland you will need to located in an area that is practical to travel and support the business across the entire region.
About you
With previous H&S experiencewithin a large complex and geographically dispersed organisationyoull hold both the NEBOSH General Certificate & Tech IOSH Membership Status.
Youll have experience of actively working within the Retail sector (ideally multiple sites) and knowledge and some experience in the development and delivery of health and safety management systems or wellbeing programmes.
Youll be IT proficient and competent user of MS Office. With comprehensive knowledge of H&S legislation and best practice as applied to third sector/charities, office premises/Retail, youll be able to influence and instruct BHF colleagues to improve awareness and compliance on H&S standards and have confidence to challenge others on current practice where required.
About us
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. By funding research across six decades, weve helped keep millions of hearts beating and millions of families together. Were investing in ground-breaking research that will get us closer than ever to a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases.
We value and respect every individuals unique contribution, celebrate diversity, and make inclusion part of what we do every day.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy, Igniting Change, along with our internal EDI group, Kaleidoscope, and a growing number of employee network groups (our Affinity Groups), help us create an environment where all our colleagues and volunteers can succeed.
Benefits
To find out more about benefits available at the BHF please download our benefits document at the bottom of this page.
Interview process
The first stage interview will be a one-way video interview. 2nd stage interviews will be held on 7th & 8th May via Teams.
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