Health and Safety Advisor

at  Bright Horizons Family Solutions

HEALTH & SAFETY ADVISOR

Salary: £42,000 + Car Allowance
Hours: 37.5 per week / Monday-Friday
Job Type: Permanent, Fulltime
Location: Field based covering South of England

QUALIFICATIONS:

• NEBOSH General Certificate (Essential)
• GRAD IOSH or working towards (Desirable)
• Level 2 Food Safety Hygiene (Desirable)
• Fire Safety experience (Desirable)
• DSE Assessor (Desirable)
• Full clean driving licence
  This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS check.
  We look forward to receiving your application!
  If you experience any problems, please email europe.recruitment@brighthorizons.com and we will be happy to help

THE ROLE

The Health and Safety Advisor is responsible for providing assurance to the company that its health, safety and other compliance policies, procedures and requirements are applied across operations and support functions consistently and effectively to mitigate risks and fulfil our Keeping Everyone Safe responsibilities.
The Health and Safety Advisor will support the Health and Safety Manager (Operational) in general Keeping Everyone Safe work as directed, including but not limited to carrying out and managing investigations including accidents and incidents, providing dedicated support to a nominated Division, providing advice for general H&S enquiries across the business through the H & S inbox, supporting with DSE assessments, support with fire risk assessment outcomes, attending regional meetings and undertaking regular support visits at nurseries etc.
The Health and Safety Advisor works in collaboration with the Health and Safety Auditors and appropriate key stakeholders to continuously learn from Keeping Everyone Safe audits and ensure that a culture of continuous improvement is embedded across nurseries and support offices.
The Health and Safety Advisor will advise, support, coach and train nursery managers and other colleagues in Keeping Everyone Safe best practice.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• To support the H & S Manager (Operations) in the development and implementation of health and safety policies and procedures.
• To support the H & S Manager (Operations) in ensuring that key health and safety messages are communicated to nurseries and the support functions in a timely and effective manner i.e. KES Newsletter, attendance at cluster calls etc.
• To support nurseries in developing and maintaining robust risk assessments and health care plan assessments.
• To support nurseries and the Support Offices with fire safety enquiries and ensuring fire risk logs and fire risk assessments have been kept up to date and maintained.
• To support nurseries in embedding a positive health and safety culture.
• To be the main point of contact for all nurseries located in a nominated division supporting with all health and safety requests.
• Attending nurseries and support offices as part of regular support visits to monitor compliance, provide advice and guidance and to seek continuous improvement in health and safety compliance across the nominated division.
• Keeping Everyone Safe by continuously improving the practices, processes and behaviours that underpin a safety culture.
• Setting the highest standards of behaviour consistent with the HEART principles.
• Work with the relevant Health and Safety Auditor to ensure that actions arising from Keeping Everyone Safe audits are completed within an allocated time frame.
• Develop and maintain strong and positive relationships with key stakeholders working in collaboration and maintain a thorough knowledge of the business and regulatory environment.
• Support the H & S Manager (Operations) in complying with the Display Screen Equipment Regulations for all applicable support and nursery colleagues.
• Support company project activities with the aim to improve internal control measures and risk mitigation.
• Attend regional/divisional meetings to provide health and safety coaching/mentoring/advice and guidance.