Health, Safety and Environment Manager

We are looking to appoint a Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Manager 

Job Summary

Oldham College is seeking an experienced and dedicated HSE Manager to lead health, safety, and environmental sustainability efforts across the College’s diverse operations.

Reporting directly to the Head of Estates, this role involves shaping and implementing Health and Safety strategies, policies, and compliance frameworks, ensuring the College remains a safe and compliant learning and working environment. 

Role Responsibilities

In this critical role, the HSE Manager will develop and drive the Health and Safety strategy, aligning it with legislative requirements and the College’s strategic priorities. They will oversee Health and Safety policies and the implementation of an agenda that promotes a culture of safety, positively impacting students, staff, and visitors. Responsibilities also include conducting audits, assessing College-wide safety performance, and identifying opportunities for improvement, thus ensuring legal compliance and adherence to best practices.

Reporting and compliance are central to the role, with the HSE Manager preparing comprehensive reports for governance, maintaining relations with regulatory authorities, and ensuring the College’s policies for critical incidents, fire safety, and risk management are up-to-date and rigorously implemented.

A key part of the role involves fostering communication around Health and Safety across departments, delivering training, guidance, and tools to encourage safe practices. They will also oversee the College’s risk assessment processes, analyse incidents and accident data, and provide insights to prevent future risks.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will hold a NEBOSH Certificate (or equivalent) with a preferred NEBOSH Diploma or HSE Degree, demonstrating a strong track record in Health, Safety, and Environmental management, including compliance and performance enhancement.

They should possess excellent knowledge of HSE legislation and best practices for educational settings, proven leadership and team management experience, and a collaborative and adaptable approach to problem-solving. Strong communication and relationship-building skills are essential, as is a proactive attitude toward service excellence. Additionally, this candidate will demonstrate a commitment to safeguarding and equality.

Candidates must have their own transport and flexibility to occasionally work outside normal hours to meet College needs. 

Joining our Journey:

When you join our college, not only will you benefit from an annual reviewed salary but have access to numerous benefits and facilities:

• Generous Pension Scheme  
• Fantastic Staff Benefits and Rewards platform
• Very generous holiday entitlement
• Employee Assistance Scheme
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity provision
• Staff Development days/week (Jan, July, Aug)
• Free confidential counselling service
• Staff recognition awards
• Car Scheme
• Subsidised car parking
• On-site Day Nursery
• On-site hair and beauty salon

Oldham College is a great career choice for ambitious professionals. With a “good” Ofsted rating, one of the best apprenticeship programmes in the region, excellent 16-18 results and truly outstanding GCSE English results, we are already a high performer.

But we want to deliver much more than this.  Our ambition is to be “The Best Place to Learn and Work” and we have a clear Strategic Plan which sets out what this means and what we will do to deliver it.  We will keep on improving and innovating, and we are investing in new provision, new facilities, and new technology; including our state-of-the-art clinical simulation suite.

We expect a lot from you, so we want ambitious, open minded candidates, who are ready to give their best.  But we give a lot in return, from training to pensions, our own benefits package, and one of the best and most helpful group of colleagues you could ever wish to meet.  

The role will require you to embed and work to the college’s values; working with Integrity, having Ambition to help our learners succeed and being Inclusive to learners and colleagues alike.

At Oldham College, our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We encourage everyone to join us, as we create a workforce that is as diverse as our wonderful student community. We do monitor responses to our diversity questions in our application, to ensure that we can continue to build a workforce that is representative of the community that we serve.

We understand that not everyone works to the same timetable, and offer a range of flexible working options, including flexible start and finish times, part-time, term-time only or hybrid options, where the role permits.

We will do everything we can to support you during your application.  If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, contact our HR team who will be happy to advise.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable laws, a pre-employment screening could include, employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the role.

Oldham College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.

Any appointments will be subject to enhanced DBS checks and a check of the DfE Barred List.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation Act 1974. It is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children and vulnerable adults.