Safety Officer Broadstairs, England
Job description
About The Role
EKC Group are seeking to recruit a Safety Officer to lead on all aspects of operational health and safety across our Group. Both roles will report to the newly created role of Head of Health and Safety and work as part of a team to ensure that the health and safety framework is embedded and complied with across EKC Group and its diverse range of Colleges and business units.
- Support the Head of Health and Safety in an operational capacity on health, safety and environment matters.
- Act as an advisor to leadership and management teams in the implementation of EKC Group’s health & safety policies and procedure.
- Work proactively with the leadership, management and staff to maintain and further promote the culture of safe working practices.
About You
As Safety Officer, alongside your technical knowledge and experience of working in a health and safety context, you’ll have great people skills and will be able to work collaboratively with colleagues to ensure that health and safety goes beyond mere compliance. You’ll be a self-starter who has a meticulous and methodical way of working. You’ll be qualified to or working towards NEBOSH Certificate level and be passionate about health and safety in the workplace.
In return for your dedication and enthusiasm, we offer many benefits as an employer including a generous annual leave entitlement and an excellent pension scheme. We have a fantastic wellbeing policy to support a work life balance that includes paid time off to look after dependants and paid time off for child’s first day of school, as well as access to occupational health, free counselling and much more. We also offer salary sacrifice schemes for bicycles, technology and lease cars as well as a range of discounts from your local high street retailers.
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About Us
East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.
Commitment to Safeguarding
EKC Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles. The Group’s designation as a ‘designated establishment’ means that all posts within EKC Group are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. We therefore have an obligation to carry out robust checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults; applicants are therefore advised that appropriate safeguarding checks (including an enhanced DBS check) will be undertaken on all successful applicants; job offers will be made on the basis of satisfactory DBS and other checks, including the receipt of two references. If you are successful in obtaining an interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process. Applicants should note that it is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so. All applicants are required to complete and submit a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children and vulnerable adults.
Commitment to Equal Opportunities
EKC Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce. We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Award; this confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. Similarly, our commitment to Care Leavers means that we will interview applicants who meet the minimum criteria and who have declared on their application that they are a Care Leaver.
We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.
