Lead Busway Health and Safety Officer

at  Cambridgeshire County Council

About the role
Cambridgeshire County Council is at the forefront of innovation to move our communities around safely and sustainably. We operate the world’s longest tracked Busway System allowing safe and reliable access to the city and science campuses that encompass our historic university city. We have an exciting role to lead our small, dedicated Busway Health and Safety team.
The Lead Busway Health and Safety Officer will provide health and safety advice, guidance, oversee inspections and timely remediation solutions to meet the demands of this vital service, ensuring regulatory compliance and management of the Busway Health and Safety Team.
They will contribute to our health and safety culture across the Council and its stakeholders.
This role will build effective stakeholder relationships which encourage collaboration and inform decision making. It will understand and respond to stakeholder needs and deliver a service which makes a real difference to how the Busway manages health and safety risks, including the ability to challenge and negotiate to bring about positive change.
In person interviews will be held on Wednesday 27 November 2024 at Stanton House, Huntingdon.

ACCOUNTABILITIES -

• Leads the delivery of the health and safety agenda across the whole of the Busway infrastructure. Promote health and safety awareness and good practice to stakeholders.
• Works collaboratively with stakeholders to provide a support and advice service, as well as the necessary tools and guidance to enable them to effectively manage health and safety hazards associated with Busway activities and its commissioned services.
• Reviewing health and safety policies and guidance which are well communicated and understood across the whole Busway team.
• Delivers health and safety training across the Busway team, including external clients where necessary.
• Responsible for carrying out health and safety risk assessments ensuring ongoing regulatory and policy compliance, delivering reports to highlight findings and recommendations and escalating concerns where necessary.
• Works closely with stakeholders to ensure health and safety best practice, industry standards and statutory requirements are met, including addressing queries provided from users and specific special access needs groups.
• Acting as a subject matter expert for health and safety, works closely with the team to provide updates and share their knowledge.
• Supporting Functions in the delivery of H&S committee meetings for Highways and Transport.
• Supports stakeholders in the use of health and safety management systems, including up to the minute fault management data.
• Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.
  About you

THE EXPERIENCE YOU WILL BRING -

• Educated to NEBOSH Level 3, Degree or equivalent.
• Evidence of continuing professional development and expert knowledge in relevant professional area (Busway and Tracked Transport Systems).
• Has experience of working in a health and safety related role within a complex organisation.
• Excellent customer service skills with experience of building collaborative relationships by engaging with services and influencing decision making.
• Proven track record of carrying out risk assessments, inspections, audits and writing reports.
• Experience of delivering health and safety training.
  About us
  Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
  Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
  We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
  Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network ‘IDEAL’ and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
  We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
  Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
  https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
  Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more

Please refer the Job description for details