Seafarer Safety and Health Lead
- Civil Service
- Part Time
- Southampton
- 57,515
Job Description
Job summary
Can you demonstrate experience of working in a regulatory environment and delivering legislative change?
Have you effectively managed multifunctional teams and built strong relationships with external stakeholders?
Do you have excellent written and verbal communication skills, including producing high-quality submissions and influencing key audiences?
If so, wed love to hear from you!
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the Kings birthday.
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at MCA.
Job description
Your responsibilities will include, but arent limited to:
- Responsibility for
- promoting the health and the safety of seafarers, including lead responsibility for the Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seamen and the continued implementation and review for the maritime sector of occupational health and safety requirements.
- seafarer living and working conditions, particularly, implementation of the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 and the ILO Convention on Work in Fishing (ILO 188).
- seafarer wellbeing.
- seafarer medical fitness regulatory issues, including the development of international standards and review of UK standards.
- implementation of human element principles within MCA and UK shipping industry.
- seafarer documentation, including seafarer employment agreements, identity documents and the Official logbook Regulations.
- regulatory aspects of working time regulation, including MCA input on MCA strategy to address the problem of seafarer fatigue.
- To ensure the continuing efficient provision of -
- a quality medical examination system for seafarers.
- other seafarer medical related services, including advice on medical stores issues and medical facilities on board ship.
- To provide the MCA focal point for liaison between the MCA and HSE on Seafarer safety and Health issues.
- To provide leadership to the Seafarer Safety and Health team, role modelling the MCA way behaviours and ensuring these are reflected in the teams culture and working practices.
- To plan and manage the branch work programme, branch resources and budget effectively and efficiently, setting priorities and identifying and addressing risks to delivery.
- To be responsible for own health and safety and that of others.
- To ensure that own continuous professional development is ongoing and professional knowledge is up to date.
Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
Person specification
You will be required to provide evidence that you hold any essential qualifications/licenses at some point during the recruitment process. If you cannot provide evidence, your application will be withdrawn.
Required experience:
To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:
- Experience of working in a regulatory role and delivering legislative changes.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and proven ability to draft high standard submissions.
- Experience of effectively managing multifunctional team.
- Experience of effectively managing external stakeholder relationships.
Additional Information
Operational Delivery Profession (ODP) is the largest and most diverse professional community across the Civil Service. Many of us will have an association with several professional communities or specialisms, ODP applies to all public facing roles / or a role that is primarily aligned to supporting the work of those with public facing roles. All critical to the delivery of UK public services.
Working hours, office attendance and travel requirements
Full time roles consist of 37 hours per week.
Whilst we welcome applications from those looking to work with us on a part time basis, there is a business requirement for the successful candidate to be able to work at least 35 hours per week.
This role is suitable for hybrid working, which is a non-contractual arrangement where a combination of workplace and home-based working can be accommodated subject to business requirements.
The expectation at present is a minimum of 60% of your working time a month will be spent at either your designated workplace (one of the locations cited in the advert) or, when required for business reasons, in another office/work location/visiting stakeholders. Your designated workplace will be your contractual place of work. There may be occasions where you are required to attend above the minimum expectation.
Occasional travel to other offices and internationally will be required, which may involve overnight stays.
If you have a question about hybrid working, part time/job share hours, flexible working, travelling for work, or require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Vacancy Holder during the recruitment process to avoid possible disappointment later in the process should your working arrangements not be compatible with the requirements of the role (see below for contact details).
Visa Sponsorship
Please note that we do not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker Licence sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship. Candidates must ensure they have the appropriate rights to work in the UK before application.
