Health & Safety Business Partner

Directorate BHCC: Governance, People & Resources Contract Fixed Term Closing Date Apply by 5 June 2024LocationJob Summary Job reference
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Brighton & Hove City Council Job introductionHealth & Safety Business PartnerAre you an enthusiastic, experienced, Health & Safety professional?Are you an effective communicator, able to work effectively and sensitively with a wide range of people? Do you have great attention to detail? Have you got experience of working in the waste sector or with a manual labour team? The varied nature of our work means it can be challenging as well as rewarding.If so, this position in our Health & Safety team might interest you!As a Health & Safety Business Partner you will join a busy team of enthusiastic people to help managers ensure the quality and consistency of health and safety performance within their area and across the council, this role will have a specific focus in our City Clean service.We are recruiting a Health & Safety Business Partner to work in our Corporate Health & Safety team, working with the council’s waste services and workshop teams, Cityclean in Hollingdean. The role offers an exciting opportunity to work with managers, employees and all other stakeholders to ensure the quality and consistency of health and safety performance both within their area of responsibility and across the council generally. This exciting role needs someone with exceptional self-motivation and organisation skills, who is comfortable working in an often complex environment, is an influential communicator and has a proven track-record of delivering excellent Health & Safety management. You will have an appropriate level of Health and Safety qualifications, ideally Nebosh Diploma or equivalent and experience of working in a Health and Safety role in a large organisation. Good project management skills will be an advantage.If this is you then we would love to hear from you.As part of your application, you will need to complete your education and work history and provide answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk)
as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.Additional informationYour starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.We offer the opportunity for the suitable candidate to choose to work in a hybrid way. Your specific working arrangements will be subject to team and service working arrangements already in place alongside Government guidance. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.
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