What You'll be Doing:

• To support the Head of Health and Safety in the development and implementation of health and safety policies and procedures.
• To support the Head of Health and Safety in ensuring that key health and safety messages are communicated to nurseries and the support functions in a timely and effective manner i.e. KES Newsletter, attendance at cluster calls etc.
• To support nurseries in developing and maintaining robust risk assessments and health care plan assessments.
• To support nurseries and the Support Offices with fire safety enquiries and ensuring fire risk logs and fire risk assessments have been kept up to date and maintained.
• To support nurseries in embedding a positive health and safety culture.
• To be a main point of contact for all nurseries located in a nominated division supporting with all health and safety requests.
• To attend nurseries and support offices as part of regular support visits to monitor compliance, provide advice and guidance and to seek continuous improvement in health and safety compliance across the nominated division.
• Keeping Everyone Safe by continuously improving the practices, processes and behaviours that underpin a safety culture.
• Setting the highest standards of behaviour consistent with the HEART principles.
• Completion of KES audits in the allocated regions of your Division, ensuring that actions arising from the audits are completed with an allocated time frame.
• Work closely with the Health and Safety Manager (Audit and Compliance) to target trends and influence positive change across the nominated division.
• Develop and maintain strong and positive relationships with key stakeholders working in collaboration and maintain a thorough knowledge of the business and regulatory environment.
• Support the Head of Health and Safety in complying with the Display Screen Equipment Regulations for all applicable support and nursery colleagues.
• Support company project activities with the aim to improve internal control measures and risk mitigation.
• Attend regional/divisional meetings to provide health and safety coaching/mentoring/advice and guidance.
• Providing assurance to the company that its health, safety, environmental and other compliance policies, procedures and requirements are applied across operations and support functions consistently and effectively to mitigate risks and fulfil our Keeping Everyone Safe responsibilities.
• Providing independent assurance through conducting internal KES audits, working in collaboration with appropriate stakeholders, continuously learning from the audits, and recommending improvement solutions for audit processes and risk mitigation.
• Advising, supporting and coaching Nursery managers and other colleagues in Keeping Everyone Safe best practice.
• Be a main point of contact for all health and safety queries, accidents and investigations for a nominated Division.
• Embedding a positive health and safety culture across the nominated Division and across the business as a whole.

Essential Experience:

• Demonstrable experience of having worked previously in a health and safety support role, preferably as a Health and Safety Advisor or similar.
• Proven track record in effectively undertaking the key tasks to the role, leading best practice and making a difference.
• Being able to work independently and prioritise.
• Sound knowledge of multiple areas of health and safety including safe systems of work, fire safety, risk assessments, RIDDOR, DSE and COSHH.

Preferred Experience

• Childcare/ Education sector
• Multi-site company
• Health and Safety training/train the trainer/coaching experience

Qualifications:

• NEBOSH General Certificate (Essential)
• GRAD IOSH or working towards (Desirable)
• Level 2 Food Safety Hygiene (Desirable)
• Fire Safety experience (Desirable)
• DSE Assessor (Desirable)
• Full clean driving licence

Personal Attributes:

• Excellent influencer, change-maker and effective communicator (oral and in writing).
• Highly motivated and driven, achieving positive impact and meeting deadlines.
• Ability to take the initiative and find solutions.
• Ability to build trust and develop cohesive teams – strong empathy, clear expectations and fair-minded.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to liaise with staff at all levels.
• High energy and thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a calm approach and ‘can-do’ attitude.
• Encourages colleagues to realise their potential and empowers high performers.
• Due to the multi – site structure, an ability to travel within the UK, including occasional overnight stays; flexibility to work at home or from a regional office as required.

Bright Horizons is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This post is subject to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check, which will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.

We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all ages and backgrounds to apply. We will consider reasonable adjustments required by applicants.

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