Health and Safety Consultant

JOB TITLE: Health & Safety Consultant

REPORTING TO: Head of Health & Safety

SALARY: Basic Salary + Commission

LOCATION: Head Office located at Windsor House, Troon Way Business Centre, Humberstone Lane, Thurmaston, Leicester LE4 9HA (Preferred Location North - M1 Corridor)

Permanent   

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join our established H&S Consultancy Team at Quest Business Services Ltd. This is a field-based role with regular nationwide travel to client sites and occasional overnight stays.

The SME client base is varied, from manufacturing and engineering, to hospitality and retail. You will provide tailored support and guidance to ensure compliance and improvements to our H&S procedures. The role is varied and challenging, covering a range of Health & Safety arrangements, risk assessments, and training. You will establish and maintain positive and collaborative working relationships with the clients.

The ideal candidate must have extensive knowledge of Health & Safety legislation, as well as broad operational and technical expertise, gained from your work history, to enable you to provide commercial and pragmatic advice while case managing your workload. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal at all levels, along with the ability to understand and adapt to the challenging needs of the service and clients is essential. The ideal candidate will have a dynamic, adaptable, and open and honest approach, with effective decision making and planning skills. You must have the ability to take initiative, prioritise and plan effective, and work towards tight deadlines.

JOB SUMMARY:

• To undertake Health & Safety audits and produce a report of the findings highlighting risks and how to implement a suitable health and safety management system, as well as assisting clients in the implementation of the agreed action plan.
• Draft Health & Safety manuals, policies, and procedures to meet client needs and compliance.
• Effectively account manage clients; to ensure compliance and determine their Health & Safety operational and strategic needs. de;overomg services in line with agreed SLAs.
• To provide Health & Safety advice to clients; ensuring the advice given offers best practice and commercially practical solutions, while explaining the risks and liabilities with associated solutions.
• To advise on and undertake ad-hoc consultancy tasks including risk assessments at client sites; such as Fire Risk Assessments (FRAs) and DSE, for example.
• To develop and implement Health & Safety training programmes to meet client needs.
• Operational awareness of the various ISO standards and other accreditation systems, such as SSIP and CHAS, to support clients maintain and achieve their certification where applicable.
• Work effectively with the wider team to support consistent delivery to clients, ensuring continuity of advice and practical support for client support issues where required.
• To support the business development team by identifying opportunities for additional services. 

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

• NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent is essential.
• Minimum 2 years of experience working in a H&S Consultancy or H&S Management role.
• Working knowledge of Health & Safety at Work Act 1974, as well as all supporting regulations.
• Fire Risk Assessment certificate is essential.
• Ability to engage and develop relationships remotely, and to adapt support at all levels of organisational hierarchy.
• Ability to analyse and interrogate available information from a Health & Safety perspective to get to the root of the cause, identify risks, and provide solutions and the varied options available.
• Ability to influence key decision-makers in organisations.
• Excellent communication skills and unafraid to have difficult conversations.
• Experience of working to deadlines in a pressurised environment.
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload while thinking outside the box.
• The ability to work effectively as part of a team, as well as autonomously on own initiative.
• Good IT skills; a working knowledge of Windows (Word, Outlook, and Excel).
• Must have a full driving license as use of own vehicle as travel throughout the UK will be required.

THE BENEFITS:

In addition to basic salary, we have a competitive benefits package including commission, pension, death in service, 26 days holiday as base (increases with length of service), Employee Assistance Programme, and free car parking. We operate a hybrid working model.

PLEASE SEND YOUR CV TO GROSSI@QUESTCOVER.COM