Operational Team Leader, Product Safety Team (Band 2/Grade 7)

Engagement and Policy Division (EPD) is at the heart of how HSE reduces risk and protects people and places it leads on HSEs communications and business insight interventions and helps shape our policy and frontline inspection interventions.

This is an operational delivery post leading a product safety team in the Technical Support and Engagement Group (TSEG), one part of EPD, responsible for providing technical, regulatory, and industries-related skills and knowledge.

This post sits in TSEGs Operational Delivery Unit and requires the successful candidate to be able to bring experience of the regulation and investigation of product safety issues.

The Product Safety team undertakes frontline regulation for product safety issues, working closely with other government departments, market surveillance authorities and international regulators. The teams work to protect the GB marketplace from unsafe and substandard work equipment and machinery, which risks the health and safety of users, undermines standards and puts businesses at a competitive disadvantage. You will manage a range of investigative activities to support HSEs effective regulation of workplace product safety.

The frontline product safety team comprises experienced HM Inspectors of Health and Safety, Product Safety Operations Officers who are experienced in aspects of product safety and market surveillance, Product Safety Support Officers and Product Safety Administrative Officers.

Part time working hours are available for this role. We can accept part time applicants who can commit to working a minimum of 30 hours per week.

We are seeking a Team Leader with experience of product safety regulation to lead and manage this frontline function.

You will lead a frontline team and be responsible for regulatory decision making and operational performance. The role will include a range of enforcement decisions under implementation of the GB product safety framework, providing support and professional advice to team members and the unit on operational and regulatory matters, developing and ensuring delivery of the unit/team workplan.

The role will carry a high level of personal responsibility for operational leadership and decision making, applying sound operational regulatory experience ensuring the timely delivery of frontline interventions in line with policies and procedures including the following responsibilities:

• Leading a team to deliver quality outcomes from its intervention activities, strengthening the product safety function for workplace equipment, working efficiently and ensuring staff perform effectively, managing consistency and quality of regulatory intervention decisions.
• Planning, managing, prioritising and delivering work plans in consultation and agreement across the Operational Delivery unit and with the support of specialist inspectors when necessary.
• Providing operational and regulatory leadership; making sound decisions and judgements on product safety and market surveillance issues.
• Managing and developing the team and individuals in it, including identifying and addressing capability and capacity gaps to achieve successful delivery of operational performance and strategic alignment with HSE and wider government objectives.
• Providing leadership and management to ensure staff health and wellbeing.
• Representing HSE, maintaining and promoting HSE standing with dutyholders, stakeholders, Other government departments (OGDs) and Market Surveillance Authorities (MSAs), and the media.
• Personal commitment to innovation and continuous improvement, including new ways of working and organisational change.

Essential Skills & Criteria:

• An understanding of the GB product safety framework.
• Experience of regulatory decision making and enforcement.