Health & Safety Adviser

About the vacancy

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Health & Safety Adviser to join our multidisciplinary Health and Safety Team at the UWE Bristol. We provide professional advice, support and guidance across the whole of the University on a wide array of relevant legislation.

The Colleges operate across all three of our major campuses and their teaching and research activities include art and engineering workshops, healthcare skills suites, laboratories and collaborative initiative working with other institutions and organisations. Staff and students also undertake a range of activities to include fieldwork and overseas travel. 

As a business partner you will be the first point of contact providing coaching, advice, support, training and audit support to the portfolio area within your remit.  You will also work collaboratively with the rest of the Health and Safety Team as part of our day-to-day work. UWE Bristol is a campus-based University and it is important for our success and the delivery of an outstanding health and safety service this role is front facing and campus based.

About you

To be successful in this role you will need to demonstrate the following attributes:

• a proactive professional health & safety adviser
• able to work and advise across a diverse range of risk topics
• experienced at working in a large complex organisation
• enthusiastic and able to engage and influence at all levels
• skilled with core health & safety competencies of auditing, training, developing and implementing policy’s
• able to demonstrate your commitment to continual development
• holder of NEBOSH Diploma or similar and Certified (CertIOSH)

This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus. However, given the nature of this role there will also be requirement to work at our other campuses, City campus and Glenside campus

Why UWE Bristol?

We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with 38,000 students and 4,000 staff from right across the globe. We offer a wide range of employee benefits including progressive pay rates, generous annual leave and career average pension schemes as well as retail savings, onsite nursery and opportunities for training and personal development.

We particularly encourage applications from global majority candidates as we are currently under-represented in this area of the organisation, however all appointments are made strictly on individual merit.

As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability.

Further information

For further details about the vacancy please contact Mark Scott on 0117 328 2214 or email: Mark4.Scott@uwe.ac.uk for an informal discussion.

This is a full-time, permanent post working 37 hours per week.

This post is not available on a job share basis.

Interviews are provisionally scheduled for week beginning 10^th of March 2025.

The University has a legal responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK. You will therefore be required to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK, please refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist for information on which documents are acceptable.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role under the Home Office Skilled Worker visa route. If you do not have current right to work in the UK you may wish to explore other visa options.

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