Shared Services Partnership
Health and Safety Officer WCC624766
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Job Details:
Salary range: £34,359 - £44,235 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: 23 August 2026
Interview date: 7 September 2026
About Us:
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF HAYLEA’S UNBEATABLE SPIRIT
Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where people use their optimism and talent to achieve more than anyone thought possible. Nobody personifies this more than Haylea Navarro. Born with cerebral palsy and paralysed down one side since birth, Haylea has been gleefully proving people wrong ever since. Now a project officer, she brings faster broadband connectivity to Westminster businesses, boosting the economy for all. Throw in her gong at the 2020 London Apprenticeship Awards, and it’s clear for all to see just what can happen when you never give in.
Please view the extraordinary story of Haylea’s Unbeatable Spirit here.
The Role:
As a Health and Safety Officer, you too can make a powerful contribution. You will be joining our newly formed Corporate Health and Safety team. Together, we’re creating a modernised and resilient health and safety function that supports our ambition to be a world-class council built on trust, innovation and care. Help shape our direction and foster a collaborative, human-first approach to safety throughout Westminster.
This role entails supporting over 3,600 staff to manage complex health and safety risks and compliance obligations. You will assist with the administration of all Health and Safety training courses, including face-to-face and online training, e.g. First Aid, Manual Handling, Risk Assessments, Health & Safety induction, etc. This will include monitoring and managing DSE (Display Screen Equipment) training and self-assessment records including referrals for all WCC’s Directorates. Plus, you’ll record training on the corporate Learning Management System (LMS). So that we can improve, you’ll collate information from feedback questionnaires and surveys. From policies to procedures, you'll help ensure our documentation remains well maintained, easy to navigate and fit for purpose.
We’d also like you to assist Directorates with risk assessments, inspections and audits. You will produce and submit incident and accident data, including Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDORs). Alongside this, you’ll help to produce Health and Safety performance reports on accidents, incidents, near misses and more.
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This is your opportunity to transform health and safety at Westminster City Council. Your skills will be recognised, your ideas valued, and professional growth supported at every step.
Please refer to the Job Description for more information.
About You:
We’re looking for someone that brings service support experience, in Health and Safety, at a large, complex organisation. You’re familiar with working in the Public Sector and different departments in Health and Safety. From this, you will have gained an understanding of Health and Safety legislation and regulations, such as the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974, Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations.
It’s important that you can communicate clearly in English, including in writing, as this role involves conveying information effectively to all levels of the Council. As well as this, you’ll bring organisation and planning skills, with the ability to be diligent and accurate. You will be proficient at using MS Office Suite (incl. MS forms: Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint).
This role will involve working unsupervised in accordance with agreed work programmes. You’ll coordinate and deliver your own tasks and workload effectively to meet goals. As such, we’re looking for someone self-motivated, resilient, and level-headed.
A NEBOSH Certificate or Level 3 NVQ are useful for this role.
Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.
The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' ( formerly known as B.A.M.E, Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.
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We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.
What We Offer:
Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is Our Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/
As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.
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