Salary: £30,495 – £31,740
Hours: 35 hours per week
Location: Flexible (Any Care Inspectorate office)
Contract: Permanent
About the role
We’re looking for a dedicated Health and Safety Officer to join our team and make a real difference. In this key role, you’ll work closely with the Estates and Health and Safety Manager to drive safety excellence across the organisation, ensuring a safe and well-maintained workplace for all employees.
The successful candidate will assist in the provision of professional advice and guidance to employees on managing Health and Safety and discharging their responsibilities to ensure safe working environment and practice. In addition, deliver an excellent estate maintenance service to our internal and external customers.
About you
We are seeking a skilled Health & Safety Officer to join our team. The ideal candidate will bring considerable experience in a similar role, alongside a NEBOSH Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health (or a willingness to undertake this qualification).
· Proven experience in a similar role
· Ability to manage and track compliance with Health & Safety regulation
· Strong organisational skills, with attention to detail
· A proactive approach to problem-solving and incident management
· Maintain accurate maintenance records and statutory Health & Safety documentation
· Raise purchase orders and process receipts when goods/services are received
· Conduct DSE assessments, risk assessments, and assist with initial incident investigations.
· Full UK driving licence with fewer than six penalty points.
Where previous applicants have further skills, experiences and qualifications to enhance their application please consider re-applying.
Starting Salary
Please bear in mind that new entrants start on the minimum grade for the role.
However, we have a great benefits package; including flexible working, defined benefit pension scheme (CARE) on a career average basis, family focused policies and a generous annual leave package; starting at 32 days (rising to 37 after five years of service) plus 6 public holidays, to see the many more other benefits Care Inspectorate offer please see our website.
About us
We are a unique Estates, Health and Safety team who provides shared services to the Care Inspectorate and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) at the Compass and Quadrant Houses, Dundee.
We are the national regulator and scrutiny body responsible for providing assurance and protection for people who experience care services, their families, carers and the wider public, as well as supporting delivery partners to improve the quality of care for people in Scotland. Our vision is that people across Scotland experience high quality care that meets their needs, rights and choices.
We are a scrutiny body that supports improvement. We inspect individual care services and we also work with other scrutiny bodies to inspect the social care and social work services people are experiencing in their local areas.
Our desire is to achieve an effective and balanced way of working, that enables us to meet organisational needs and achieve a work-life balance that promotes wellbeing and collaboration opportunities. Our hybrid working policy gives you the flexibility to mix working from home with attendance at your base office and other work locations, spending no more than 60% of your working time working from home, measured over a 4-week period.
Next steps
You’ll find more information in the job profile and person specification.
If you would like more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Recruitment team at Recruitment @careinspectorate.gov.scot.
If you believe that your skills, experience and motivation make you a suitable candidate for this post, please complete the online application form by 08:00 on Monday 13 January 2025.
It is anticipated that interviews will be held on Wednesday 29 January at our Dundee office.