We are a caring and supportive Team, who want the best for and from our colleagues, and we are committed to developing each other to achieve the full potential of the Team and individuals within it.

You’ll provide specialist health, safety and wellbeing advice and support on a wide range of issues for allocated work streams and contribute to cross-council projects and initiatives.

We take pride in offering the best employee experience, with benefits including:

• a competitive salary and annual leave entitlement plus statutory holidays
• membership of the West Yorkshire Pension Fund with generous employer contributions
• flexible and hybrid working arrangements subject to service requirements
• a clear career pathway and continuing professional development opportunities
• a range of staff benefits to help you boost your wellbeing and make your money go further

How To Apply

Apply for this job online. Please complete the online application form and upload your CV if you have one.

Read our guidance for further advice. Please check your information carefully and ensure you complete all sections before submitting your application.

If you have any queries or would like an informal chat about the role please contact Thomas Hollings - Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager, Thomas.Hollings@leeds.gov.uk

Assessment may include presentations, group work and written based assessment centres and interviews for applicants that successfully pass any presentation and assessment centre stages.

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check against the Children’s or Adults’ barred list as applicable will be carried out on preferred candidates. Read our recruitment of ex-offenders policy.

We welcome applications from everyone and actively seek a diverse range of applicants from all backgrounds and cultures. We particularly encourage applications from, but not limited to, women, carers, veterans as well as LGBT+, ethnically diverse, disabled and care experienced people.

This role is based in the UK. Home Office guidance states that candidates must evidence their right to work in the UK prior to commencing employment, either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa.

If you do not have the right to work in the UK, you must consider your own eligibility for sponsorship for a particular role through the Skilled Worker visa route before applying. To be eligible for sponsorship you'll usually need to be paid the standard salary rate of at least £41,700 per year or meet one of the other eligibility criteria. Ensure you are eligible before applying.

Job Description

Job purpose

Support Health, Safety and Wellbeing Managers and Senior Leadership Team to deliver excellent health, safety and wellbeing services across the council and to external organisations. Key responsibility for day-to-day management of HSW Advisers delivering services to LCC Directorates or traded work streams, providing oversight and direction to the roles carried out by in service HSW Officers, and contributing to organisation-wide health, safety, and wellbeing (and related) projects and initiatives.

Most importantly, this role fulfils that of one of the organisation’s ‘competent people,’ pursuant to the statutory requirement to have access to professional and technical professional and technical health, safety and wellbeing advice.

Responsibilities

• Manage the delivery of allocated health, safety, and wellbeing services, as part of the wider HR team, to support leaders and managers - anticipating, influencing, and ultimately delivering against defined business needs;
• Build a rapport and establishing credibility with Chief Officers, Heads of Service, and service managers leadership teams and managers on all areas of health, safety and wellbeing matters.
• Assist the Health, Safety, Wellbeing and Fire (HSWF) Leadership Team, and HSW Managers by taking responsibility for delivering core elements of the HSWF strategy for LCC. Including key responsibility for day-to-day management of the HSW Advisers delivering services in our key work streams and providing oversight and direction to the roles carried out by in service HSW Officers.
• Liaison with other services in and outside Leeds to ensure that holistic and comprehensive support is provided to service areas and contributes to HSWF improvement across LCC.
• Work closely with directorate management/leadership teams, chief officers, service managers, leadership teams of schools and external organisations to identify issues and provide appropriate health, safety and wellbeing solutions through strategic planning.
• Enable services to improve and ensure compliance with health, safety and wellbeing legislation and good practice, through the provision of effective guidance, advice, monitoring, review and challenge.
• Manage the directorate delivery of HSWF policy, advice and support, as part of the wider HR and HSWF Teams to support Senior Leaders and service managers and anticipating, influencing and ultimately delivering against defined business needs.
• Act as a senior competent health, safety and wellbeing professional for one or more of our key workstreams working closely with senior managers to identify issues and provide appropriate solutions through effective planning. This includes, but is not limited to, Wellbeing, the Directorates in LCC, Risk Management and Compliance across LCC, Training (internally and externally), LCC Schools, and Traded Services.
• In your key work streams, to actively contribute to the development and achievement of LCCs Health, Safety and Wellbeing strategies and ensure the provision of proactive and positive intervention. This includes developing policies, procedures and systems that promote a best practice approach to Health, Safety and Wellbeing as part of embedding a robust, effective safety culture and safety management system across LCC and external organisations.
• Manage and ensure the provision of high-quality appropriate health, safety and wellbeing advice and support in your key workstreams, including ensuring the services provided are professional, effective and, where relevant, tradeable and competitive.
• Provide effective check, challenge and support to managers, stakeholders and external organisations to enable them meet legal, best practice and LCC standards and ensure continuous improvement.
• Provide high quality performance information to senior managers across LCC and external organisations, and the Head of Health, Safety and Wellbeing to enable assessment of compliance with health, safety and wellbeing in line with legal requirements, council standards and good practice.
• Support the management and development of health, safety and wellbeing advisers and support staff