What skills and experience we're looking for
This is an exciting opportunity to join OHC&AT as a Health, Safety, Environment & Sustainability Coordinator, playing a key role in supporting the health and safety team to deliver efficient and compliant services across the organisation. You will assist in streamlining operations, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations and promoting a culture of safety and sustainability. Your responsibilities will include managing health and safety systems, overseeing risk management, coordinating external audits and supporting the development and maintenance of training programs.
This is a hands-on position, and the successful candidate will need to develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders, including site Premises Officers, Principals, senior managers and external partners, to ensure smooth operations and effective safety management. You will be responsible for the accurate management of health and safety data, generating reports, tracking audit actions, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.
Ideal for someone seeking to grow within the health and safety field, this role offers the opportunity to make a tangible impact, promoting a proactive safety culture, managing risk and ensuring high standards of health and safety and sustainability are maintained across OHC&AT.
The right person for this role will have:
• A solid understanding of health and safety legislation, risk assessment processes, and incident management techniques.
• Proven experience in supporting health and safety systems and compliance activities.
• Strong organisational and communication skills with the ability to build effective relationships at all levels.
• Proficiency in using health and safety software systems and Microsoft Excel.
• A NEBOSH qualification or willingness to pursue one, with experience in a similar role, preferably in an educational or similar setting.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details on the role and the skills, experience and knowledge we are looking for.
For an informal discussion about the role, candidates are invited to contact Jo Bailey, Head of Health, Safety, Environment and Sustainability at jbailey@ohcat.org.
What the school offers its staff
Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust (OHC&AT) is a family of specialist education providers for over 1500 pupils and students from nursery to further education across 14 academies and 9 college centres in London, Surrey, Sussex and Berkshire. Supporting our academies and college, OHC&AT also operate learning support, such as nursing and therapy, and a central business support team which includes HR, finance and IT.
Pupils and students within the OHC&AT family have a wide range of learning abilities and additional needs including autistic spectrum disorder; speech, language and communication difficulties; social, emotional and mental health; profound and multiple disabilities; and physical disabilities including multi-sensory impairment and complex health needs.
OHC&AT is a rewarding and inspirational place to work, where everyone works together to create the best possible outcomes for students. To find out more about us, and what makes us a special place to work please visit
Enhanced Benefits package
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.