Housing Health and Safety Business Partner

Discover yourself in Lewisham where what you do makes a difference to our vibrant and culturally diverse communities!

We have a rich history of welcoming people from all over the world and are proud to be recognised as the UK’s first Borough of Sanctuary, for our work in championing the rights of refugees and migrants.

Introduction

To provide health and safety advice and support, ensuring the Housing Service within the London Borough of Lewisham deliver its legal obligations across all relevant statutory health and safety legislation and guidance.

The Housing Health & Safety Business Partner will provide strategic leadership and operational oversight across all housing‑related health and safety functions. To contribute to a process-based best practice approach to health & safety and act as a subject matter advisor for managers within the housing directorate. To drive and enable suitable and sufficient risk assessment of tasks and activities within the Council housing directorate.

What’s the role?

This role is central to delivering safe, compliant, and accountable housing services, to foresee requirements for developments in Health, Safety, Statutory Compliance and Welfare practices to meet changing needs within the Council or in response to legal and legislative changes, working together with other Health & Safety Business Partners and the Council’s Corporate Health & Safety Team.

What’s in it for you?

Excellent training and development opportunities, plus a range of benefits including:

• Generous holiday allowance
• Local Government Pension scheme
• Flexible working and family friendly policies
• Season ticket and bicycle loans
• A range of staff discounts including local subsidised gym memberships
• Supportive staff networks

What we’re looking for

We are looking for someone that has an Understanding of the Health, Safety and Welfare Legal and Statutory requirements, responsibilities and obligations of a large, diverse and complex organisation.

Understanding of the Health, Safety and Welfare policies, strategies, practices, systems, audits, reviews, performance standards and targets needed to ensure compliance with Legal and Statutory requirements, responsibilities and obligations of a large, diverse and complex organisation

Understanding of Local Government structures.

Qualifications.

Nebosh national diploma

Graduate Member of IOSH

Location

The job is primarily based in Laurence House but we operate a hybrid approach where you will be required to work both in the office and from home on a regular basis.

The recruitment process is anonymous and we don’t accept CVs.

Applicant handbook - please read the guidance in this handbook when applying. It is essential that you complete the application fully and that your supporting statement covers how you meet each of the person specification criteria listed.

For an informal discussion about this job, please contact (Peter Whittington via email peter.whittington@lewisham.gov.uk)

Please click here to view the Job Description and Person Specification

Salary

£62,634 - £64,815 per annum (PO7)

N.B: All appointments will be offered at the minimum spinal column point (SCP) for the grade of the role. The only exception to this will be when matching current salary (up to the maximum of the scale), which is subject to evidential proof.

Diversity

Lewisham Council is a Disability Confident employer. We welcome and encourage job applications of all abilities. If you require any reasonable adjustments in the application or interview, please contact the lead contact on this advert. We will make reasonable adjustments to make sure our disabled applicants and those with health conditions are supported throughout our recruitment process. We support the access to work scheme, further details are available at www.gov.uk/access-to-work/apply

The Council reserves the right to close adverts early if there is a large response.

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