Health & Safety Team Leader

About the role

At Bromford Flagship LiveWest, safety is fundamental to everything we do. We're looking for an experienced Health and Safety Team Lead to provide leadership, direction and professional expertise across our organisation, helping to ensure colleagues, customers and contractors can work and live safely. This is an opportunity to influence how health and safety is delivered across a large, complex organisation. You'll lead a team of health and safety professionals, support operational leaders, and play a key role in embedding a positive safety culture that balances compliance with practical, customer-focused solutions.

What You'll Be Doing

You'll lead and manage the delivery of operational health and safety support across the business, ensuring effective systems, controls and assurance activities are in place and consistently applied.

Responsibilities

• Leading, coaching and developing a team of Health and Safety professionals
• Setting priorities and providing day-to-day direction and support
• Supporting the implementation of health and safety strategy across operational teams
• Providing expert advice, guidance and constructive challenge to leaders and managers
• Coordinating assurance activities, audits, inspections and compliance monitoring
• Supporting the investigation of incidents, including significant and RIDDOR-reportable events
• Identifying opportunities to improve health and safety performance, systems and culture
• Ensuring learning, best practice and continuous improvement are embedded across the organisation
• Building strong relationships with stakeholders and operational teams to influence safe behaviours and effective risk management

Requirements

• Significant experience leading or supervising health and safety teams within complex, multi-site organisations
• Strong knowledge of health and safety legislation, compliance requirements and management systems
• Experience delivering audits, assurance activities and performance monitoring
• Experience supporting and leading incident investigations, including serious and RIDDOR-reportable incidents
• The ability to build effective relationships and provide expert advice to leaders and operational teams
• Experience producing and presenting health and safety reports, insights and recommendations
• A passion for developing others and embedding a positive safety culture
• Strong communication, coaching and stakeholder management skills

Qualifications

• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent qualification
• CertIOSH membership and working towards Chartered membership (CMIOSH)
• A full UK driving licence

It would be advantageous if you also hold, or are working towards, a Level 3 learning, training or coaching qualification.

Benefits

• Flexible and hybrid working; many roles support working across our main locations and home
• Performance related pay based on shared success
• A choice of pension schemes with employer contributions of up to 10%
• Employee Assistance Programme that provides 24/7 virtual GP access, prescription service, and talking therapies for you and your family
• Annual allowance of £500 to spend on benefits of your choosing, including healthcare plans, dental care, gym membership and much more
• Generous holiday, occupational sick pay and paid family leave
• Fully funded professional membership, if a requirement of your role
• Continuous learning and development opportunities