Health and Safety Adviser

Salary: £33,366 to £37,035 per annum

Grade: I

Contract: Full Time

Hours: Permanent

Location: County Hall Campus, Northallerton

As one of the country's largest local authorities, North Yorkshire council are welcoming applications from ambitious, passionate, and committed individuals, to strengthen our Health and Safety Team.

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Health and Safety Risk Adviser to join our Shared Health and Safety Team. The NYES Health and Safety Service team deliver high quality health and safety services to schools covering a wide geographical area.

This is an excellent opportunity to join our expanding team.

This role is initially classified at Grade I, with the potential to progress to Grade J/K based on your qualifications, experience, and successful performance management.

The post is home based, and the role is to deliver the NYES Health and Safety Service to educational establishments, predominantly schools, across Craven, Selby, Northallerton, depending on the successful candidate's location. We have a particular need for advisers ideally locally based and able to deliver to customers in the area. However, whilst you will work and be based in a particular locality, we offer flexibility around the specific work base location and welcome applicants to discuss this with us.

We are supported with modern technology and accessibility to enable flexible and agile working from other work bases or from home and patterns of work, centred on the needs of our customers.

As Health & Safety Risk Adviser you will be focused on delivering health and safety advice and guidance to school-based staff, so we particularly welcome applicants with experience of working and undertaking health and safety duties in an educational/school-based setting.

You will deliver services to your allocated premises, manage your own workload, and build up long term relationships with your clients who will recognise and value your expertise.

To be successful you must:

·Hold the NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent qualification).

·Have effective influencing and negotiating skills

·Demonstrate good interpersonal skills

·Be able to work to deadlines and performance indicators

·Have the ability to work on own initiative and make evidence-based judgements

·Be able to problem solve, find pragmatic solutions in professionally challenging situations

And ideally

·Demonstrate experience of working and undertaking health and safety duties in an educational/school-based setting

·Have a proven track record in delivering customer focused services

·Have experience of undertaking fire risk assessments.

We are committed to delivering excellent services to our clients, so we challenge ourselves and our team to look at ways to continually improve. This requires our team members to think innovatively and be supportive of colleagues which on occasion can be in challenging situations.

In return we can offer you the opportunity to:

·work for a forward thinking, reputable organisation

·progress your career through continual professional and personal development

·deliver services on a commercial basis

·access a range of benefits including generous leave entitlement, flexible working, a local government pension scheme, salary sacrifice and employee discount benefits.

We value the unique skills and experiences each candidate brings and are open to discussing how your background aligns with the role and potential for progression. We encourage open dialogue to ensure mutual understanding and alignment with your career aspirations.

We are committed to developing our advisers, so we are particularly interested in hearing from professionals that are interested in career progression.

For an informal discussion regarding the role, please contact Dale Barton on 07788 564533 or dale.barton@northyorks.gov.uk.

Key dates:

Closing date: 27^th April 2025

Interview date: 1^st May 2025

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***DBS*** Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post. NYC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies. We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

North Yorkshire Councils' purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other's contributions, we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. North Yorkshire Council (NYC) advertise vacancies on behalf of schools and external organisations (third parties) in North Yorkshire. NYC are not responsible for the recruitment/employment practices of third parties and accept no liability in relation to the vacancy and any subsequent recruitment/employment processes. Enquiries regarding the vacancy or practices should be made directly with the third party.

North Yorkshire Council are committed to the health and safety of our employees and of others including the general public. It has a responsibility to ensure employees who hold a position that is deemed to be safety critical as it requires the performance of duties which are directly related to the safe operation or security of a facility, piece of equipment or vehicle, handling of chemicals or work at height or in confined spaces and which, if not performed properly, could result in a serious safety risk or environmental hazard to employees, a facility or the general public , do not attend work whilst under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Individuals offered employment with North Yorkshire Council will be subject to the Workplace Substance Misuse policy. For safety critical roles as detailed above, random alcohol and drug testing may take place during the course of employment.

It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with adults at risk.

We are committed to the inclusion, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk*