Health & Safety Team Leader

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Contractual base: Flexible across our offices: Tewkesbury, Norwich or Exeter
Operational requirement: Regular travel across the Bromford Flagship LiveWest geography
Closing date: Tuesday 22nd September

Lead the team helping create safer places for colleagues, customers and communities

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.

Your responsibilities will include:

• 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.

What we re looking for

We re seeking a collaborative and credible health and safety professional with strong leadership capabilities and the ability to influence at all levels.

You ll bring:

• 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 and requirements

You ll hold:

• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent qualification
• CertIOSH membership and be 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.

Why join us?

At Bromford Flagship LiveWest, we re customer-driven, ambitious and all-in. This is an opportunity to lead a talented team, influence organisational safety performance and help create safer environments for colleagues, customers and communities.

You ll be part of an organisation committed to continuous improvement, where your expertise will directly contribute to protecting people, improving compliance and strengthening our safety culture.

Important information for internal colleagues:

If you are successful, you will move onto Bromford 2019 terms and conditions (T&Cs). For more information and FAQs about our T&Cs, visit Hub. This will not apply if you are moving into a role as a secondment, in this case, your substantive T&Cs will remain in place for the duration of your secondment, with any exceptions (including job title, salary, work location etc) confirmed to you at the point of offer.

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