JOB SUMMARY

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.

• We’re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
• We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
• We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

JOB DESCRIPTION

You will support the delivery of the Met Office’s Safety Management System, helping to promote and foster a positive health and safety culture. You will maintain our information, tools hub and coordinate our training and systems.

Your key duties:

• Co-ordinate health and safety inspections and audits.
• Review health and safety key performance indicator (KPI) compliance data to identify gaps or trends in compliance.
• Prepare statistics and analysis for health and safety papers.
• Review DSE self-assessments completed by staff and organise second level assessments, where required.
• Co-ordinate first aid training, including monitoring of certificate expiry dates.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Keep evolving: Ability to critically analyse data in order to identify patterns, gaps, trends, and root cause.
• Better together: Proven ability to effectively build and maintain relationships with internal and external business stakeholders.
• Expert by nature: Evidence of using Microsoft Office 365 applications to support business operations including SharePoint, Power BI, Forms, Excel, Word, Planner etc in addition to bespoke systems.
• Force for good: Proven ability to prepare written reports, update internal records, and dashboards that will help support our organisation’s purpose of helping to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.
• Live and breathe it: Proven ability to support the daily operation of internal management systems and identify key business requirements within areas of responsibility.
  Desirable Criteria:

We encourage you to apply if you believe you meet our essential criteria, but we’re also keen to discover if you have:

• Completed health and safety training or entry level course (e.g. IOSH Managing Safely or similar) or experience with desk-based ergonomics and display screen equipment assessments.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Your key duties:

• Co-ordinate health and safety inspections and audits.
• Review health and safety key performance indicator (KPI) compliance data to identify gaps or trends in compliance.
• Prepare statistics and analysis for health and safety papers.
• Review DSE self-assessments completed by staff and organise second level assessments, where required.
• Co-ordinate first aid training, including monitoring of certificate expiry dates