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One of my local government clients are currently recruiting an experienced Senior Safety & Resilience Officer on a temporary basis. This is a 3-month minimum contract with the possibility of the role being extended further to work Monday to Friday 9:00am to 5:30pm.

Hybrid working role were, however, you will be required to attend the office 2/3 times a week.

Overview:

* Drive behavioural change to ensure excellence in health, safety and welfare of employees and provide assurance to SMT of health and safety standards.

* Identify, create, organise, run and record appropriate health and safety training for staff. Where necessary investigate and organise suitable providers for specialist training.

* Assist with planning, implementation and monitoring the effectiveness of our Health and Safety policy and procedures.

* Manage the Health and Safety Coordinators; DSE assessors; Fire Marshalls; and First Aiders, championing their work to ensure competent, efficient, and productive delivery of objectives in line with prioritised health and safety cultural improvements.

* Provide appropriate and competent health and safety advice and assistance.

* Support resilience at RBC, including emergency planning and business continuity portfolio of work.

* Support the Safety and Resilience Manager, and when necessary, deputise for him.

Responsibilities:

* Support and audit local managers’ health and safety management and liaise with the appropriate manager to ensure that issues are addressed within an appropriate time frame.

* Create action plans in response to audits and monitor delivery.

* Investigate Town Hall incidents and audit incident investigations for non-Town Hall incidents.

* Maintain an incident record database; analyse incident data to produce quarterly and annual reports for Management meetings.

* Develop and deliver competent effective and efficient health and safety training to staff (internal and external).

* Support Comms in maintaining an H & S folder on the extranet.

* Conduct regular inspections and audits of council’s work sites and activities.

* Work in partnership with the Safety & Resilience Team to develop best practice, such as monitoring of behaviours and cultures, while ensuring that we can still get the job done (risk aware not risk averse).

* To support the Safety and Resilience Manager with regard to business continuity and emergency planning to ensure resilience of the unit including supporting Managers reviewing and testing of BC plans locally and supporting RBC in cooperation with the Warwickshire Local Resilience Forum.

* Provide appropriate health, safety, or welfare management information, including quarterly newsletter.

* Support risk assessment work across the Council.

* Respond to employees and Trade Union health and safety complaints/concerns as appropriate.

* Administrate for and run the 6-weeekly H & S coordinator meetings, or similar if appropriate.

* Support Corporate Property in fire safety measures.

* Coordinate fire drills, including review and lessons learnt.

* Create and maintain Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans in liaison with local managers.

* Where appropriate liaise with the HSE or other relevant enforcing authority.

If you are interested in this vacancy, please send your CV to Jahker Miah from Coyle Personnel Ltd