Health and Safety Manager

Your new company
I am working with a leading European financial institution offering global banking, investment, and asset management services. This company operates in over 50 different countries and provides services to individuals, businesses and governments.

Your new role
Reporting to the Director of Health and Safety, the Health and Safety Manager will be responsible for the development and support on the effective delivery of the health and safety management system, covering Corporate inclusive of Central Functions, Residential and Commercial (excluding Property Management) business divisions, providing excellent technical knowledge and advice. They will also play a critical role in supporting estate teams working across national offices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide guidance and advice on health and safety risk management across the business and influence operational divisions leads to a culture of best practice.
• Create and review policies, procedures, forms, and guidance documents as needed, considering best practise and improvement opportunities.
• Support the Director of Health and Safety in reporting and updating. Prepare slide decks for reporting of progress, projects and risk exposure (data).
• Identify national legislative regulatory changes and best practice, highlighting to business key changes and potential risk exposure.
• Demonstrate leadership in health and safety issues, ensuring that the H&S Management System and Standards are readily used across all business lines and across the estates, involving coaching of the Operational Teams.
• Develop an audit programme, to enable compliance measurement reporting of health and safety against the agreed company standards to Senior Management, inclusive of compliance status report and associated action plan as necessary, where the company is non-compliant.
• Manage health and safety training, inclusive of creating a training matrix to enable a gap analysis to identify and create a training programme, inclusive of budget estimation. Train and influence staff through training programmes and presentations.
• Lead on high level incident investigations, producing an investigation report inclusive of root cause analysis and making recommendations to prevent reoccurrence. Consulting with our key stakeholders on key learning opportunities and providing the business with incident trend analysis.
• Overseeing supplier relationships and ensuring contractual requirements are met with our key suppliers.
• Supporting the business on tender submissions inclusive of Health and Safety and pre-qualification requirements for our supply chain with key stakeholder groups.
• Establish a system of dashboard reporting to the Statutory Board, Excom and the business line executives. Provide advice to the various boards on all Health and Safety matters.

What you'll need to succeed

• National General Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health - accredited by NEBOSH (essential)
• Working towards National Diploma (level 5/6) in Occupational Safety and Health (or similar i.e. NVQ) - accredited by NEBOSH.
• Proven track record of corporate health and safety within organisations with a large portfolio background would be preferred.
• Customer-focused style and approach, with an engaging, likeable communication character
• Excellent understanding of all Health & Safety legislation and mandatory and statutory requirements for building compliance
• Collaborative team player with an adaptable and pragmatic approach. Used to working within a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Able to engage with other H&S teams within the organisation.
• Member of IOSH or equivalent professional body or working towards accreditation.

What you'll get in return

• Health & Leisure benefits
• Private medical cover
• Generous annual leave + bank holidays (option to buy 5 additional days)
• Generous pension contribution
• Wellbeing support
• Travel and retail discounts
• Plus many more

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