Job Title: Senior Safety & Resilience Officer

Location: Based at Work Services or Town Hall - Working from Home 1 day per week if needed

Rate of Pay: £28 Umbrella per hour OR £17.59 PAYE per hour

Working Hours: Full Time - 37 hours

Type: Temporary Role - 8 Weeks

Opus People Solutions are working with Rugby Borough Council to recruit for a Senior Safety & Resilience Officer.

Purpose of the Job:

• 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.
• SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES - The post holders will line manage health and safety coordinators. - To set an example to others in excellence in health and safety at work.
• FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES - Responsible for authorising expenditure and monitoring expenditure against agreed budget for personal protective equipment and health and safety training.
• EXTENT OF PUBLIC CONTACT - Most of the duties will involve contact with council staff and senior officers. There will be irregular contact with elected members, Trade Unions, local and national external bodies and the public.

Criteria:

• Extensive experience within Health & Safety Management
• Ability to influence champion and enforce excellence in health, safety and welfare at work. Understand the need for political awareness and sensitivity and the importance of building and maintaining sound working relationships.
• Competent effective and efficient health and safety trainer.
• Nebosh Certificate Holder, but with a willingness to work towards NEBOSH Diploma
• Communication skills to deal with a range of people often using persuasion skills, including computer literate with a drive to support the digitalisation agenda.
• A commitment to work within our CAN DO values

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