Deputy Director of Parliamentary Safety
- Civil Service
- Full Time
- London
- 73,806 - 86,444
Job Description
Job summary
As Deputy Director of Parliamentary Safety, youll play a pivotal leadership role within the Parliamentary Safety Team (PST), helping to shape and deliver the strategic direction for safety across the UK Parliament. Working at the heart of the House of Commons, youll operate in a uniquely complex and high-profile environment, ensuring that safety is embedded consistently, proportionately and effectively across both Houses. This is an exciting opportunity to influence safety culture at scale, supporting a major transformation programme in one of the most recognisable institutions in the world.
Job description
Reporting to the Director of Parliamentary Safety, you will lead the development and implementation of the Parliamentary Safety Strategy and oversee the operational, construction and assurance safety teams. Youll be responsible for driving excellence in the Safety Management System, ensuring alignment with ISO 45001, and embedding robust health and safety arrangements across the organisation. Acting as a visible and influential leader, youll work closely with senior stakeholders, providing expert advice, strengthening governance, and ensuring safety remains a clear and consistent priority.
This role is offered on a hybrid working basis, with an expectation of you spending 40% of your time in the office.
Person specification
- Qualifications: A relevant professional qualification, such as NEBOSH Diploma, NVQ Level 5/6 in Safety or degree in a safety related discipline and significant experience in construction and/or facilities management areas. CMIOSH certification or working towards/ equivalent. Experience of successfully managing relevant ISO systems e.g. ISO:45001. ISO accredited Internal Auditor or willingness to obtain within the first year.
- Ability to build strong collaborative partnerships at all levels and create a teamwork environment to achieve organisational goals, taking the initiative as required and upholding and embedding the principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion at all times.
- Significant experience of leading and managing a large team in a complex, multi-site organisation and successful leadership of a professional multi-disciplinary safety team.
- Ability to communicate clearly, confidently and persuasively with people at all levels, both orally and in writing.
- Demonstrable experience of leading and driving process and operational improvement, collecting, analysing and presenting data in a compelling way to aid managerial decision making, developing and implementing proactive safety approaches, innovating, through the use of technology and delivering measurable and sustainable results.
- Demonstrable experience of managing stakeholders in a sensitive and political environment with the ability to understand their requirements and to provide effective solutions to meet these.
