Job title: Health and Safety Officer

Attributes

Experience

Essential

  • Considerable experience in a similar role.
  • Experience of maintaining statutory H&S information, preparing performance information and case management.
  • Delivery of a high standard of customer support.
  • Communication with all stakeholders including Executive Team, Partnership Forum representatives and staff.
  • Completion of DSE Assessments, risk assessments and initial incident investigation.

Education, qualifications and training

Essential

  • NEBOSH Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health or be willing to undertake this.
  • Full UK driving license with less than six penalty points.

Desirable

  • IOSH membership.
  • Fire Door Visual Inspector.


Skills and knowledge

Essential

  • Excellent working knowledge of all MS Office 365 applications.
  • You will have good communication skills with an excellent attitude towards delivering a high standard of customer support to our internal and external customers.
  • A general knowledge of health, safety and fire regulations and requirements, as well as data protection.
  • Ability to manage conflicting priorities and work to tight deadlines.
  • Aptitude for developing effective solutions to health and safety issues.

Desirable

  • Working knowledge of MS Teams, Sharepoint
  • Experience of MS Forms, Power Automate, Power BI, providing H&S training to others.


Key Performance Outcomes

Effective communication

Essential

  • Ability to select appropriate communication, style and methods depending on the needs and abilities of the audience.
  • Demonstrate clear and concise verbal and written communication skills.
  • Listens actively and questions to check understanding.

Partnership working

Essential

  • Respect others, recognise and value difference and diversity and be aware of the impact of your views on others.
  • Ability to quickly build rapport and collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Objective decision-making

Essential

  • Demonstrates analytical and systematic approach to problem solving.
  • Understands the limits of their knowledge and experience and when decisions need to be referred to others.
  • Ability to act consistently with Care Inspectorate values to achieve the desired outcomes.

Planning and organising

Essential

  • Ability to plan workload effectively in the short, medium and long term in conjunction with others.
  • Ability to forward think and be innovative in developing solutions.
  • Ability to prioritise effectively and achieve deadlines in a changing environment.
  • Demonstrates initiative, drive, and determination to complete tasks and achieve objectives.

Team working

Essential

  • Works collaboratively with a wide range of teams across the Care Inspectorate and SSSC.
  • Demonstrates personal commitment when working with colleagues.


Personal accountability and responsibility

Essential

  • Maintains a high standard of work, ensuring attention to detail, actively seeking out continuous improvement.
  • Demonstrates initiative within own area of expertise.
  • Takes responsibility for own actions and decisions.

Please note – these are key performance outcomes to be used to recruit into the role.
Successful applicants will be assessed against all the performance indicators used in the Performance Development Review System once established in the role.