Health and Safety Executive
Leadership and Management Capability Lead (Band 2)
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Job Summary
The Leadership and Management Capability Lead will play a critical role in shaping, delivering and embedding a high-quality leadership and management offer across the organisation. The post-holder will lead strategic work to define leadership behaviours, strengthen leadership capability, and ensure alignment with organisational priorities.
Working closely with senior stakeholders, the role will drive succession planning for Senior Civil Service (SCS) and feeder grades, identify leadership capability gaps, and design evidence-based solutions to address them. The role includes line management responsibility for one team member and oversight of external suppliers delivering leadership development interventions.
Part time working hours are available for this role. We can accept part time applicants who can commit to working a minimum of 30 hours per week.
Job Description
- Lead the development and implementation of a coherent leadership and management strategy, aligned to organisational objectives and priorities.
- Define, embed and continuously improve leadership behaviours, ensuring leaders are accountable for demonstrating the expected standards.
- Lead and deliver end-to-end leadership and management development interventions across the full learning cycle, including needs analysis, design, delivery and evaluation.
- Lead succession planning for SCS and senior leadership pipelines, ensuring robust approaches to talent identification, assessment and development.
- Identify organisational leadership capability gaps and develop targeted solutions, including programmes, interventions and experiential learning opportunities.
- Build and maintain strong, credible relationships with senior stakeholders, providing expert advice, constructive challenge and strategic insight where appropriate.
- Commission and manage external suppliers to deliver high-quality leadership development solutions, ensuring value for money and alignment with strategic objectives, while applying project management principles to deliver programmes and initiatives on time and within scope.
- Line manage and support one team member, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, learning and professional development.
Person Specification
Essential Skills And Criteria
- Proven experience of designing and delivering leadership and management development interventions across the full learning cycle, with strong facilitation skills (Lead Criteria).
- Experience of working effectively with senior stakeholders, including influencing, advising and constructively challenging at senior level (Lead Criteria).
- Understanding of contemporary leadership theories and their practical application within organisational contexts.
- Demonstrable ability to identify organisational capability gaps and translate these into practical, impactful development solutions.
- Experience of managing external suppliers and commissioning learning solutions.
- Project management skills, with a track record of delivering complex initiatives successfully.
- Ability to lead and develop others, with experience of line management or coaching.
Qualifications
- Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) qualified or equivalent qualifications in organisational development, learning or HR.
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Behaviours
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Seeing the Big Picture
Hybrid Working
At HSE, we are proud to be able to offer our people the opportunity to work in a hybrid way which combines working from home and the office. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement, and your allocated office will be your contractual place of work.
There will be a requirement to travel to the office for various activities, e.g., collaborative working, supporting and training colleagues. If hybrid working is suitable for you and your role, you will be expected to attend the office, or other business-related site, for 60% of your working week. The arrangements will be determined primarily by business need, but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account.
Therefore, we would encourage candidates to consider if the commute from home to the office is a feasible distance to travel before making an application. Please note that if you are successful, hybrid working will be discussed prior to taking up the post.
Benefits
- Alongside your salary of £62,898, Health and Safety Executive contributes £18,221 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
We invest in our people with:
- Competitive rates of pay
- Access to the highly competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme to which HSE contribute 28.97% far more than in the private sector.
- Family friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career
- Carer friendly policies to help create a supportive working culture
- 185 hours annual holiday increasing to 222 hours after 5 years' qualifying service, plus public holidays and 1-day Civil Service privilege leave (recorded as 7.4 hours in addition to your annual leave balance)
- Parental leave benefits
- As a member of HSE you will gain access to a wide range of fantastic benefits that you can take advantage of such as the Cycle to Work Scheme, E-Gift Cards, and Vouchers via our partner EdenRed.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Selection Process Details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
Application Information
As part of your application, you will be invited to complete an anonymised CV which should include your career history, experience, and qualifications.
Please ensure you tailor your CV to match the Essential Skills and Criteria as listed within the advert.
You will also be asked to complete an anonymised Personal Statement, of no more than 1000 words which demonstrates how you meet the Essential Skills and Criteria of the job advert.
Application Guidance
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Please access the following link for guidance on how to apply and how to complete a Personal Statement How to Apply
Sift Information
The sift will take place week commencing 21st September 2026 when you will be assessed on your CV and Personal Statement
IMPORTANT: Please note an initial sift will be conducted on your CV. If you meet the benchmark for the CV element, you will be progressed to a full sift in which the Personal Statement will also be scored. If you do not meet the standard for the CV, you will not receive a score for your Personal Statement.
In the event of a high number of applicants at sift, we will assess on the Lead Criteria listed within the Essential Skill and Criteria.
Interview Information
Interviews will take place week commencing 12th October 2026 when you will be assessed against the behaviours detailed within the job advert and strengths and experience.
As part of your interview, you will be required to deliver a short presentation. Further details of this will be sent to candidates invited to interview.
Please note, all dates are subject to change depending on panel availability.
The lead behaviour, Changing and Improving will be used in the event of a tie-break.
Sponsorship
This role is not open to application from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should you apply for this role and require sponsorship your application will be rejected, and any provisional offers of employment will be withdrawn.
Further Information
Please note that a Reserve List will be held for the period of up to 12 months. There is no guarantee you will be offered a role from our reserve lists, so if you see a vacancy on Civil Service Jobs that you are interested in, we recommend you apply.
HSE reserve the right to conduct additional checks, including Google and social media checks, when recruiting candidates into a role within HSE. These checks will be carried out in line with the Civil Service Commission Principles and, if used all candidates will be subject to these additional checks.
From 23rd June 2025, if you are successful at interview, as part of your pre-employment checks, HSE’s Recruitment Team are required to check your details against the Internal Fraud Hub (IFH), using your personal details – name, NINO, and date of birth. If you are included on the database, you will be refused employment. If you believe that there has been an error in the inclusion of your data and wish to make an appeal, please contact the CO email box internal.fraud@cabinetoffice.gov.uk.
Details of the types of internal fraud/dishonesty covered by this process are defined by the Cabinet Office and can be found here Internal Fraud Register privacy notice - GOV.UK
It is the candidate’s responsibility to ensure they are aware of the terms and conditions they will adopt should they be successful in their application. For a summary of HSE terms and conditions as part of Civil Service Reform, please see the attached HSE Terms and Conditions document.
Progression through pay ranges is subject to annual pay awards as permitted within annual Civil Service pay remit guidance and negotiations with Trade Unions.
HSE is proud to be a part of the Disability Confidence Scheme (DCS). As a Disability Confident employer, we positively welcome applications from disabled people. We are committed to making workplace adjustments to ensure anyone can participate in the recruitment and selection process.
If, during the application or interview process, you require any assistance due to a disability or a
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