Health & Safety and Compliance Manager

Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum

Specific Hours: 35 hours per week

Location: Office Based, Bromsgrove

About Us

We are Polaris, one of the UK's largest leading communities of children's service providers. Within the community, we have independent fostering and adoption agencies who have been passionately improving the lives of young people for over 30 years, as well as Leaving Care services, Residential, Education and bespoke children's services contracts.

Through our therapeutic children's homes and schools, set in a variety of urban and rural communities, our Residential Division are able to support young people's emotional, social, mental and academic progression and enable them to grow and reach their full potential.

As such, we are currently looking for a Health & Safety and Compliance Manager to join the Estates Team and be an integral part in providing high quality Health and Safety management and administration across the group and our stakeholders. You will also be apart of a community who strives in providing the very best service to our young people.

Do you want to work in a role and be a part of making a positive difference to young people's lives? Are you looking for a new challenge and change within your career? Well here's what we need from you…

Main Responsibilities

• To co-ordinate and support the requirement for compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999 with as far as is reasonably practicable
• Maintain up to date and relevant legislative and regulatory knowledge on Health & Safety regulations and communicate key updates to senior management and all staff as required
• To lead and own the achievement of external H&S accreditation as required by the organisation
• Lead and own the production of all Health & Safety policy and procedures
• Embed robust monitoring of all aspects of Health & Safety across all component company offices
• Ensure the delivery of HS related PPM, compliance and regulatory actions and the associated paperwork as required by Ofsted and other governing bodies.
• Embed robust monitoring of all aspects of Health & Safety across our residential property based businesses
• Lead and own a Quality Assurance framework for a rolling programme of audit checks against all requirements of our Health and Safety policy and procedures
• Lead and own a performance monitoring dashboard of Health & Safety compliance across all component companies
• Manage a network of Health & Safety co-ordinators in all component company locations to ensure they have clear roles and responsibilities, engage and support them in their role and hold them to account
• To lead a culture of robust compliance and accountability for Health & Safety
• Work with relevant colleagues to develop suitable training on Health & Safety awareness
• To complete reports for the senior management team and board as required
• To ensure robust record keeping at all times for all aspects of Health & Safety

Essential Requirements

• Excellent computer literacy skills including being able to work with Microsoft Offices and produce reports
• Ability to work part of a team
• Ability to prioritise workloads
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills
• Ability to work under pressure and handle changing priorities

Desirable Requirements

• Previous experience of working within a Health & Safety Environment
• Hold a National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH) certification or equivalent or be willing to work towards this certification
• Experience of working within a Commercial Property Environment

Benefits

• 30 days Annual Leave increasing to 35 days with length of service plus Bank Holidays
• Company Pension Scheme,
• Life Insurance x 2,
• Employee Discount Scheme
• Free Parking
• Refer a friend scheme of £500 per successful placement

Polaris is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. The company is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be subject to a DBS check at enhanced level if successful for the position.