Senior Health and Safety Officer

Childrens Services

Integrated Children and Family Service

Best Start Family Hubs Senior Health and Safety Officer

Ref: 001839

Contract: Fixed Term (18 months)

Salary: £40,444 - £44,253 per annum (Grade 7)

Hours: 36.66 per week to be based in Family Hubs across Oldham

Location: Family Hubs across Oldham

Closing Date: Friday 13 November 2026

Interview Date: TBC.

Role Overview:

Working as part of Oldham’s Integrated Child & Family Service the post holder will support the Family Hub Managers by providing a professional health and safety service.

This will support the Council’s aims and objectives and facilitates in the effective management of health and safety across the 6 Family Hubs, in order to ensure governance, statutory compliance and best practice.

Key Responsibilities:

• To assist the Family Hub Managers in the day-to-day running of the Family Hub Buildings, including evening and weekend.
  
• To lead on embedding processes and systems to meet council and statutory compliance.
  
• To build effective relationships with other partners to enable the delivery of projects and programmes of work, including any capital projects.
  
• Provide advice, guidance and support to all staff within the service and partner organisations on health and safety matters and where necessary undertake visits to investigate accidents and incidents and provide onsite support.
  
• Carry out and ensure completion of regular audit and inspection programmes within Family Hubs to determine the standards of compliance against the health and safety management framework, designated policies, procedures and relevant health and safety legislative requirements.

Key Requirements:

• NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety or an equivalent
  
• Graduate Level Membership of Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
  
• Experience employed as a Health and Safety Practitioner applying legislative and practical health and safety standards in a multi-disciplinary organisation.
  
• Experience of writing, reviewing and updating policies, procedures and guidance (proactive and reactive) relating to health and safety in line with new legislation, best practice, criminal or civil interventions, accidents or new initiatives undertaken by the organisation
  
• A thorough knowledge of health and safety law and associated legislation, current approaches and strategies, and the ability to apply these within a Local Authority context and businesses external to the organisation to ensure healthy and safe working environments and practices.

About Us:

We want Oldham to have vibrant, safe neighbourhoods where people are proud to live with opportunities for healthier, more fulfilled lives; and a sustainable, thriving economy. As we look to the future, the challenges may be significant, but so are the opportunities. We’ve identified three missions with our residents and partners, focusing on what will deliver the biggest impact:

A Great Place to Live, Healthier, Happier Lives, and Green and Growing.

We’re looking for candidates who will support us to achieve our ambitions and we encourage you to download our Corporate Plan: Ready for the Future and our Oldham Plan for further information.

Our Values and Behaviours:

By driving innovation, investing in our people, and championing our communities, we will ensure that Oldham continues to be a place where everyone can live their best life. To support this, we have three core values which define who we are and how we operate. These are ‘Proud, Ambitious, and Together’, and they shape our culture, inform our decisions, and inspire us to deliver on our commitments to the people of Oldham.

We have translated these values into five behaviours which guide our actions and are the standards we hold ourselves to, day in and day out:

• Work with a resident focus
• Support local leaders
• Committed to the borough
• Delivery high performance
• Take ownership and drive change

You can find out more about our values and behaviours on our greater.jobs Oldham page

Our Benefits Package:

At Oldham Council we offer a great benefits package for our employees, which includes the following:

• 25 days annual leave which increases after 5 and 10-years’ service
• The option to purchase additional annual leave.
• An attractive LGPS benefit pension scheme with the option to make shared cost additional voluntary contributions.
• Discounted gym membership with Oldham Active.
• Staff discount scheme for shopping, entertainment, eating-out, eating-in, travel, motoring and more.
• Salary sacrifice scheme for home and electronics and Cycle to Work.
• Wellbeing support, including a Mental Health First Aider network and an Employment Assistance Programme that provides 24 hours access to advice and support.
• Staff recognition and celebration events.
• Peer support groups

Inclusive Recruitment:

We work closely with employees to help them work at their best, including making adjustments such as flexible working, describing available working patterns, providing equipment or making changes to the workplace.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and therefore expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

If you have lived or worked abroad for 3 months or more in the last 5 years or 12 months or more (whether continuously or in total) in the last 10 years whilst aged 18 or over, please refer to the link below for details for how to obtain your Certificates of Good Character. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application.

If you’re an applicant with disabilities and have previously been in or currently in care, a carer, someone who has served in the Armed Forces, or you’ve participated in the GM Elevate Programme, and you meet the essential criteria of the role, you are guaranteed to reach the first stage of assessment under our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme.

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Important Information:

Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for a current employee at risk of redundancy, it can be pulled back at any point, up to the post being formally offered to a candidate who is not at risk of redundancy.

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