• keeping people safe;
• creating great environments; and
• enabling impact.

You'll lead our approach to health and safety, providing the expertise, assurance and systems we need to meet our responsibilities and manage risk well. But you won't be expected to become the organisation's "health and safety police". We work on the basis of trust, shared responsibility and good judgement. Your job will be to build confidence and capability across the Wise Group so that leaders and colleagues understand the part they play in creating safe environments.

You'll also lead and coordinate our approach to property, facilities and our physical workplaces — helping us make good decisions about existing spaces and contributing to the development of new ones.

That could mean:

• shaping our health and safety approach so that it is proportionate, practical and easy for colleagues to understand;
• helping a People Leader think through a risk rather than simply handing them a rule;
• making sure our statutory responsibilities, systems, inspections and assurance are rock solid;
• working with landlords, contractors and partners to keep our buildings safe and working well;
• spending time in our hubs, listening to colleagues and noticing the things that could make their working environment better;
• helping us think about accessibility, inclusion, wellbeing and colleague experience within our physical spaces;
• supporting decisions about new hubs, relocations, refurbishments and our future property footprint;
• using incidents, data and colleague feedback to help us learn and improve rather than simply record what happened; and
• making sure our physical environments enable colleagues to focus on what matters most — delivering extraordinary impact for people and communities.

There will be audits, risk assessments, statutory inspections, incident investigations and compliance records. Those things matter. But they are the foundations of the role, not its ambition.

Who we're looking for

You might already be a Health & Safety Manager, Property or Facilities Lead, Estates Manager or Workplace Experience professional. You might come from housing, hospitality, healthcare, education, the public sector or another organisation with multiple sites and a strong focus on people.

We're less interested in the label on your current job and more interested in how you think and how you work.

You'll need strong professional health and safety knowledge and a NEBOSH qualification or equivalent, alongside experience of managing risk, compliance and workplace environments. You'll understand UK health and safety legislation and be comfortable providing professional assurance where it matters.

But technical expertise alone won't make you successful here.

You'll be someone who can walk into one of our hubs, talk naturally with colleagues and understand their experience. You'll be curious before being prescriptive. You'll know when something genuinely needs to change — and when a proportionate, pragmatic solution is the better answer. You'll be comfortable influencing senior leaders while also building trusted relationships with colleagues across the organisation.

And you'll understand that the best safety cultures aren't created by one expert holding all the responsibility. They're created when everyone understands the part they play.

Why the Wise Group?

Because this is an opportunity to do something a little different. You won't be joining a large estates department to maintain a property portfolio exactly as it has always been managed. You'll be joining a social enterprise with significant ambitions for the future and helping us shape what our physical presence looks like as we grow.

You'll have the freedom to bring ideas, challenge how we do things and help us build an approach that reflects the kind of organisation we want to be. An organisation built around relationships rather than hierarchy, trust rather than unnecessary control, and impact rather than process for process's sake.

You'll work with colleagues who care deeply about what they do and who are united by a simple ambition: to help people change their lives. And your contribution to that matters.

Because when our colleagues feel safe, trusted, connected and proud of the places in which they work, they can give more of their attention to the people and communities who need them.

Think this sounds like you?

You don't need to come from the social enterprise sector. You do need to bring the professional credibility to keep us safe and compliant, the judgement to help us manage risk intelligently, and the curiosity and imagination to help us create brilliant places for our colleagues and customers.

If you're looking for a traditional Health & Safety role where success means writing policies and policing compliance, this probably isn't it. If you want to use your expertise to enable people, shape places and contribute to something with genuine social impact, we'd really like to hear from you.

Apply now and help us create safe, welcoming and inspiring places where people can do their best work — and transform lives.

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