Assistant Health and Safety Adviser Frenchay, England
University of the West of England
Full Time
Frenchay, England
24715 - 28131 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Salary
£24,715 - £28,131
Contractual hours
37
Basis
Full time
Region
Permanent - Full time
Job Type
Administrative
Job reference
R05905
About the vacancy: The UWE Bristol’s Health and Safety Team have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Health and Safety adviser who is looking to further develop their career in a future-focussed University.
The team provides health and safety advisory service and support to all Professional Services and Colleges, formulates policies, undertakes audits and delivers a comprehensive training programme.
This is a front facing campus-based role where you will work closely with the rest of the team and specifically provide support and assistance across the full range of team work activities and projects.
The role will provide a proactive business partnership service to support a number of selected Professional Services and support the team with administration to include input and monitoring electronic health and safety management systems.
A significant part of the role will be actively monitoring and directly completing Health & Safety Team actions generated from audits and risk assessments and completing the annual fire drill programme throughout the UWE Bristol Estate.
As a Team we take pride in ensuring a professional and courteous approach, at all times, we work in partnership with our customers and seek to ensure our communication is jargon free and risk proportionate. We aim to engage and encourage ownership and above all ensure the sharing of best practice across the University to build a perpetual health and safety culture.
Through our work the University has already achieved a strong devolved health and safety approach to ensure collective leadership on this critical agenda and to support staff and student engagement. As the University looks ahead to 2030 and the implementation of its Strategy 2030, there will be a focused continual improvement on health and safety. This will be achieved through the implementation of the ‘Health, Safety and Workplace Wellbeing’ Roadmap 2030’ which has eight objectives and also annually set milestones to ensure this improvement.
About you: This role will best suit a proactive and highly motivated person with excellent communication skills, who is customer-focused and able to apply a pragmatic approach to health and safety.
We are looking for a candidate who has practical health & safety advisory work experience and is able to demonstrate an analytical approach to problem solving.
NEBOSH General Certificate qualified and (preferably) a member of IOSH who is highly organised with the ability to work in a team and with a high level of autonomy using your initiative to complete work objectives to an exacting standard within set timeframes.
You will require excellent IT skills with experience across, MS Office including Word, PowerPoint, Excel to expert level is essential as is experience of analysing and interpreting data, drafting complex reports and delivering training and briefings to others.
Where is this role based?
This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed – £300m has been invested in new state-of-the-art learning spaces and accommodation while we continue to develop incredible new facilities to enhance our offer even further.
Frenchay campus has excellent transport links; as well as being located near the motorway network we are within walking distance of two train stations, our bus terminus connects us to the local bus and metrobus network and we also have a range of cycling and changing facilities.
Given the nature of this role there will also be requirement to work at:
Our Glenside Campus which is set within beautiful grounds in Stapleton, just three miles north east of Bristol City Centre. Home to UWE's Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, Glenside Campus offers excellent teaching facilities, these include a selection of inter-professional simulation suites, enabling students to practice and develop professional competencies, and one of the best health care libraries in England and
Our City Campus in Bristol city centre which comprises of Bower Ashton Studios, Arnolfini, Spike Island and Watershed and is home to UWE Bristol's creative and cultural subjects. Through a combination of University sites and partnerships with creative and cultural organisations in the city, we have developed a network of cultural and creative spaces. These enable our students and staff to develop their professional practice in inspiring learning environments as well as provide opportunities for creative collaboration and networking.
Why UWE Bristol?
We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with 32,000 students, 250,000 alumni and 4,000 staff from across the globe. We are both globally connected and regionally embedded, with a strong network of employer and partner connections.
We have a lot to be proud of at UWE, our achievements include scoring above sector average for student satisfaction, we are ranked 24th in The Guardian Best UK Universities 2022 and 39th in the latest Times Higher Education 'Table of Tables'.
We are an ambitious and values led university. We're focused on solving future global challenges through outstanding learning, world-leading research and a culture of enterprise and we are looking for people who share our core values to help us achieve those aims.
With inclusivity as a core value, UWE Bristol recognises the power of a truly diverse university community. We support and celebrate the diversity of our staff and students as a key driver for innovation and success, promoting pathways and achievements to inspire and generate confidence and ambition.
In addition to progressive pay rates, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including:
- a generous holiday allowance of 25 days per year
- up to 12.5 bank holiday/closure days per year
- career average pension schemes available for all staff groups
- access to employee assistance programme
- 1st month free to our Centre for Sport facilities for all new starters
- family friendly policies and wellbeing initiatives
- onsite nursery at our Frenchay Campus.
- Retail savings via the Wider Wallet scheme
- option to participate in the cycle to work scheme
We also offer a wide variety of in-house training courses and development programmes and provide a tailored professional programme to support our academic colleagues in delivering the highest in professional teaching standards.
Add your individuality to ours
Proud to be part of a vibrant, multicultural city that celebrates diversity, we’re always on the lookout for talented people from all backgrounds to join us. Our people are our strength, and diversity enhances our creativity and leads to better decision-making and problem-solving. Bring your talent and ambition to our growing staff community of over 4,000 individuals and find yourself in a stimulating and supportive environment where you’ll thrive. Add your individuality to ours to help set us apart.
We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Multiple Heritage or Other Minority Ethnic and (fe)male candidates as we are currently under-represented in these areas within UWE Bristol however all appointments are made strictly on individual merit.
Further information
All candidates are strongly encouraged to contact Mark Scott on 0117 328 2214 or email: [email protected] for an informal discussion.
This is a full-time, permanent post working 37 hours per week, and is not available on a job share basis
The University’s normal practice is that new appointments will be made at the starting point of the grade.
We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role under the Home Office Skilled Worker visa route. As we are unable to sponsor anyone requiring a visa for this role candidates must therefore be able to provide their own right to work in the UK.
Should you be shortlisted you will be asked to provide your right to work documents at your interview. Please refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist which provides details of which documents are acceptable.
Please note that UWE does not cover any visa or health surcharge costs.
