CNC Police Staff
Health & Safety Manager
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Based at Harwell/Bisley/Griffin Park - Hybrid working
Salary up to £62,509 plus a £2,000 South East Allowance (if relevant) and generous benefits package
Permanent, 37 hours per week
The Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) is an armed police service that’s dedicated to the nuclear industry. Our vision is to be recognised as a provider of a world-class service for the protection of nuclear material and facilities. Given the critical nature of our work, it’s vital that we recruit skilled and committed professionals to join our high-performing team.
The Health and Safety Manager will support the Head of OH, Safety and Wellbeing to provide leadership and management to the health, safety and wellbeing team to support the development and delivery of a proactive and robust Health, Safety and Wellbeing service that supports the implementation of the CNC people strategy.
The post holder will lead on the health and safety workstream, providing information and advice to stakeholders on any strategic health and safety matters with the potential to impact upon constabulary operations and delegating work to the team where required, in doing so, ensuring compliance with legislative and policy requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Working closely with the Head of OH, Safety and Wellbeing and other managers to ensure the department delivers holistic and co-ordinated health, safety and wellbeing services across the organisation
- As a member of the Senior Management Team, support the Head of Department and People Director with implementation of relevant strategies, whilst providing strategic and day-to-day leadership to drive the delivery of functional and local plans
- Lead and manage key contracts for external health and safety services, ensuring tender processes are managed effectively and in a legally and budgetary compliant manner
- Act as senior health and safety business partner to the CNC by providing expert advice at relevant forums such as Risk Assessment Panels, change projects and project group meetings driving forward any identified pieces of work as appropriate
- Ensure compliance with regulatory, legislative and policy requirements
- Carry out environmental scanning on relevant aspects of health and safety to continuously identify and address relevant emerging issues associated with the health, safety and wellbeing of people in the workplace and to ensure that CNC policies and practices and health and safety services remain compliant with developments in legislation and national best practice. Provide advice and recommendations to Senior Managers, highlighting risks and opportunities for development
- Take ownership and responsibility for implementation of relevant health and safety initiatives and projects
- Provide high quality coaching and training to the organisation regarding all matters related to health and safety and provision of presentations at external forums championing the work of the CNC as appropriate
- Lead and develop the team of CNC risk assessors ensuring regular CPD is maintained and act as an escalation point for assessors.
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Skills and Experience
- A proven track record in health and safety management and provision of strategic level advice in a police force or similar organisation, ideally within a firearms environment
- Membership of IOSH or equivalent health and safety body
- Experience in undertaking management roles preferably in a geographically dispersed function
- Experience of contributing to the development, implementation and evaluation of strategies and policies
- Experience of provision of H&S advice at a senior level
- Knowledge of typical Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing issues in an armed police service and the inter-relationships and inter-dependencies of the areas
- Highly developed analytical and report writing skills
- Ability to critically analyse complex information and evaluate a range of options to identify service improvements
- Excellent communication: verbal and written, and ability to communicate at all levels
- Qualified or working towards NEBOSH National Diploma for Occupational Health and Safety Management Professionals or equivalent is desirable
This role has been assessed as suitable for hybrid working with a 60% / 40% split, which will be discussed and agreed with the successful individual.
Benefits of working for the CNC:
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- 27.5 days annual leave (rising by 1 day after 2 years’ service, and 0.5 days every year thereafter until a total of 32.5 days is reached) plus Bank Holidays
- Additional 30 minutes time worked during the week to accrue additional leave of 3 days, which can be used for period between Christmas and New Year
- Generous pension scheme (20.7% employers contribution).
- Flexitime working scheme
- Free parking on site
- Eligible to join the national Blue Light Card scheme, which offers discounts on a variety of products and services
- Enhanced family friendly and wellbeing policies
- Cycle to Work scheme
As police staff, the public expect us to display the highest standards, values, and professional qualities at all times. The CNC values and Code of Ethics applies to all police staff and sets out the principles and standards of behaviour we expect to see, and you are responsible for displaying and delivering these to the highest standards.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are central to the values of our organisation. At CNC we value and embrace the unique experiences, identities and abilities that each of us bring to our roles. We strive to empower everyone to bring their authentic self openly and safely to work.
Through the dedicated commitment of our affinity networks, ED&I team and wider HR departments, we are on a journey to embed our ED&I commitments, ensuring the CNC is an employer of choice; where everyone feels included.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
The video links below which will give you an overview of the vetting process that you will be required to go through if you are successful in your application to join the CNC:
- Vetting: An Overview - https://youtu.be/lRit8RA7Zpo
- Vetting and Finances - https://youtu.be/JmZP7r-9MEE
- Vetting and Life Experiences - https://youtu.be/jVPHvgpB8nc
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