Health and Safety Advisor

ACCENT housing • Stockton, CA

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

As our Health and Safety Advisor for the North, you’ll provide expert health and safety advice and assurance across our social housing operations, helping us meet our legal and regulatory obligations as a housing provider. You'll support managers and colleagues to manage risk effectively within a housing environment, ensuring the safety of both customers and employees while contributing to a strong safety culture across the organisation. This will be achieved through delivering colleague safety training programmes, supporting and advising colleagues in your areas and auditing to a schedule in order to monitor and analyse the performance of the health and safety management system. You'll also be involved in accident investigations and providing a responsive service to colleagues and customers when they need advice on Health & Safety matters. We're particularly interested in candidates who have experience providing health and safety advice within social housing, local government, healthcare, education, or other public sector environments, where customer safety, regulatory compliance and stakeholder engagement are key priorities. It's an exciting time to join the Health and Safety team due to the changing regulatory landscape in social housing. Your role will make a real impact by improving safety for our customers and colleagues. You'll also support in driving changes to policies and procedures ensuring that we're able to deliver a first class service.

Requirements

• NEBOSH General Certificate.
• Deep understanding and experience of current UK health & safety legislative and regulatory requirements and how to apply them.
• Experience of internal auditing or auditing in a variety of health & safety fields.
• Experience of applying health and safety legislation and risk management principles within a housing, social housing, local authority, healthcare, education or other public sector environment.
• Experience of providing practical health and safety advice to operational managers in a customer-facing housing or public sector setting.
• Driven, inquisitive, accountable, open and honest.
• Taking ownership of situations from beginning to end to ensure the best possible outcome.
• Fantastic relationship building skills which enables you to build rapport with all stakeholders.
• Current eligibility to live and work in the UK.

Nice To Haves

• Experience within the social housing sector is strongly preferred.
• Experience working within a regulated public sector environment, such as local government, healthcare, education or housing, would also be highly regarded.
• Ideally you'll have a customer focused mindset.
• Familiarity with Health & Safety management systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert health and safety advice and assurance across social housing operations.
• Support managers and colleagues in effective risk management within a housing environment.
• Ensure the safety of customers and employees.
• Contribute to a strong safety culture across the organisation.
• Deliver colleague safety training programmes.
• Support and advise colleagues in designated areas.
• Conduct audits to monitor and analyse the performance of the health and safety management system.
• Participate in accident investigations.
• Provide responsive service to colleagues and customers on Health & Safety matters.
• Support in driving changes to policies and procedures.

Benefits

• Generous time off – 28 days holiday plus bank holidays, an extra day for your birthday, and the option to buy more.
• Health & wellbeing support – Cash health plan, Health MOTs, online GP access, gym discounts, and a dedicated volunteering day for a cause you care about.
• Financial perks – Car leasing options, salary sacrifice schemes, and exclusive discounts through our benefits platform to help your money go further.
• Future-focused benefits – Access to both Defined Contribution and Defined Benefit pension schemes through salary sacrifice, plus life assurance at three times your salary for peace of mind.
• Family-friendly policies – Enhanced parental leave, flexible working options, and support for work-life balance.
• Career development – From Stepping into Management and Management Essentials training to our Leadership Academy, apprenticeships, and more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED