Health & Safety Specialist

We’re supporting our client’s Health & Safety (H&S) team in delivering their H&S strategy, plans, and procedures, helping to drive continuous improvement across their UK operations. We now have an exciting opportunity to join the team on a 12-month fixed-term contract as a Health & Safety Specialist.

This role is either London or Regionally based.

Main Duties

Will be involved in working collaboratively in the following areas:

• Ensure records are maintained in the H&S system in line with specified requirements.

• Carry out DSE assessments both in person and virtually with the client staff.

• Accident and incident investigation, reporting and corrective action.

• Undertake actions to support the following H&S processes:

• New and expectant mothers risk assessments
• Young person’s risk assessments
• Homeworkers’ risk assessments
• Event risk assessment process
• PEEPs
• ensuring the staff and WEM understand the actions to be taken
• Emergency Response
• observe and write report of planned evacuations
• Carrying out triage tasks such as the event RA tracker
• There will be adhoc tasks/projects that will come up from time to time

Specific:

• Communicate key issues with the H&S Operations Lead promptly.

Personal Specification

Professional Qualifications and Experience:

• DSE experience and qualification from a recognised provider

Personality:

• Self-motivated, positive, reliable, tolerant, inquisitive, resilient and determined

Team Player:

• Able to get on with others and work collaboratively

Influencing:

• Can demonstrate an ability to persuade and influence others

Appearance:

• Well presented as appropriate to the working environment

Equal Opportunities at SPS

We are proud of the progress we've made in building a truly inclusive workplace where Equal Opportunity is more than a principle, it’s a commitment in action. We have an ambitious equality, diversity and inclusion approach recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity drives innovation and enables us to deliver the highest quality service to our clients.

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. All applicants with a disability who fulfil the role criteria will be progressed to the next stage of the process. Please let us know what reasonable adjustment, if any, you require.