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About the role
Sense are looking for a dynamic, solution focused Health & Safety Manager to join our established Quality and Compliance Team at TouchBase Pears located in Selly Oak, Birmingham.
This is a Permanent position, working 37.5 hours per week flexibly from Monday-Friday on a hybrid working pattern. As a Health & Safety Manager, you will receive £45,000 per annum.
In this role, you will be expected to lead the organisation on Health and Safety requirements and initiatives providing legal and technical advice to Directors, Managers, and frontline services across our Operational, Charity and Trading directorates. This role covers multiple sites across Northern Ireland, England and Wales and will require occasional travel.
You will be developing and maintaining the Organisations Safety Management System, ensuring that any changes to statutory obligations are reflected in Policy and Procedure and compliance with UK legislation is achieved. You will be working alongside our central Quality team to promote policy into practice, engaging with all Sense staff and stakeholders and supporting them to understand their role and responsibilities within health and safety across sense. Key Skills and Experience:
Provide expert legal and technical advice on all Health & Safety matters across the organisation, if necessary, by visiting the premises to understand the issues and develop local solutions.
Successful track record of change management, including negotiation and persuading to achieve expected outcomes.
In depth knowledge of Health & Safety law and practice.
NEBOSH Diploma or Degree with relevant post-graduate Health & Safety qualifications.
At least three years post experience in a Health and Safety practitioner role within depth knowledge of Health & Safety law and practice.
For full details of the role and personal specification, please refer to the Job Description attached to this advert. About Sense
For everyone living with complex disabilities. For everyone who is deafblind. Sense is here to help people communicate and experience the world. We believe that no one, no matter how complex their disabilities, should be isolated, left out, or unable to fulfil their potential.
Working at Sense can be incredibly rewarding; we offer the opportunity to work in a large, diverse and successful charity where people can develop their skills, knowledge and careers in a supportive and flexible environment.
In addition, we have excellent training and development, the opportunity for you to join our Group Personal Pension scheme, a great rewards scheme and a generous annual leave entitlement. To apply
Please use the link below to complete your application. Managers will use your application to shortlist candidates for interview; in relation to the Personal Specification. Therefore, it is very important you complete this section thoroughly. We would recommend that you read the candidate guidelines, job description and person specification (found at the base of this advert) before applying.
Please note to avoid disappointment, we advise you to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close posts at any time.
If you require any further assistance, please contact the Recruitment Team on 0121 415 6735 or [email protected]
Sense is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. Therefore, all offers of employment, where appropriate, are subject to a DBS check; level dependent on the nature of the role.
For this role we particularly welcome applications from candidates from underrepresented ethnic minority backgrounds and candidates with disabilities. Sense is committed to equality of opportunity, and to promoting and celebrating the diversity of staff, volunteers and the people we work with. Everyone's contribution is valued and we ensure they're given the opportunity to realise their potential. We welcome applications from talented people from all sections of the community who share our values and belief that no one, no matter how complex their disabilities, should be isolated, left out, or unable to fulfil their potential. For more information please visit: https://www.sense.org.uk/about-us/equality-and-diversity/
No agency submissions please: any submissions without prior authorisation from the Sense Recruitment Team will be treated as our own and as such no fee will be payable.