Health and Safety Advisor

This new full-time post is immediately available on a permanent basis.

This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working – some time on campus and some from home.

The role

Here at the University of Exeter, the Health and Safety Team supports students and staff to carry out high level research in the safest and most productive way possible. Students and staff are at the heart of the safety work we do, and our aim is to continually improve safety provision for everyone.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an outstanding Health & Safety Advisor to provide competent and operationally practicable advice support to staff and managers. The post holder will have a significant role in leading auditing with a strong focus on supporting Faculties and Professional Service to measure their performance in safety.

The University has a devolved risk management structure, and this post will ensure that Faculties and Professional Services have the support, training and management systems available to them to enable them to be successful in these areas.

The post holder will engage with staff at all levels, empower decision making and connect with managers to enable this and specifically their objective will be to nurture effective relationships with the leaders in their designated Faculty including the Department Managers, Directors of Faculty and Heads of Departments.

The team are committed to providing a modern, fresh approach to health and safety management and the post holder will agree with us that “red tape burden” is not the way forward in successful safety management.

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.

The University of Exeter

We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024).  We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community.

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from service people.

Benefits

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• 41 days leave per year
• options for flexible working
• numerous discounts at leading retailers
• onsite gyms on all of our campus’ and a cycle to work scheme
• sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to 6 weeks full pay) and a Fertility Treatment Policy
• stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England

Further information

Please contact Mike Wetherell via email at M.J.Wetherell@exeter.ac.uk or via phone on (01392) 726345.

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