Job Introduction
Are you a passionate health, safety and wellbeing professional ready to lead, inspire and shape services that protect thousands of people across Staffordshire and beyond?
We are a highly regarded Traded Service, delivering expert advice, support and training to council services, maintained and academy schools, and a growing range of external customers across Staffordshire and the wider West Midlands. Our work helps organisations create safer, healthier environments where colleagues, service users, pupils and communities can thrive.
As our Health, Safety & Wellbeing Manager, you'll play a pivotal leadership role within our management team, driving excellence across our Children & Families and Health & Care Directorates, as well as our Joint Venture Company, Entrust. This is an exciting opportunity to lead and develop a team of dedicated Health & Safety Advisors, coaching and mentoring them to deliver outstanding customer service and professional expertise.
You'll have the chance to influence strategic direction, lead service improvement projects, analyse health and safety performance trends, and help shape innovative solutions that strengthen compliance, wellbeing and customer outcomes. Working closely with the Head of Health, Safety & Wellbeing, you'll also contribute to business growth, expanding our reach and reputation while ensuring our services continue to meet the highest standards.
Main Responsibilities
You will be involved in
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Team Leadership: Lead and develop a team of Health and Safety Advisers to deliver a customer-focused, modern, and professional service.
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Expert Advice: Provide expert, professional, and ethical health, safety, and wellbeing advice to senior managers and customer leadership teams, supporting them in identifying and implementing effective improvement and transformation plans. Including supporting emergency incident management within the council.
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Policy Development: Develop and implement health, safety, and wellbeing policies, operating procedures, and management tools to ensure legislative and regulatory compliance and support organisational objectives.
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Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external partners (e.g., NHS, Local Resilience Forum, UKHSA, DHSC, DFE, HSE, and other enforcement bodies) to ensure effective information sharing and risk management.
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Learning and Development: Identify, develop, and deliver learning and development opportunities on health, safety, and wellbeing topics to ensure managers have the required knowledge and skills.
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Operational Management: Lead the operational management of health, safety & wellbeing service within Children & Families, Health and Care and Entrust, ensuring quality of service, commercial benefits, and supporting traded growth.
The Ideal Candidate
It is essential you have:
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A degree-level education and hold a NEBOSH Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety (or a recognised equivalent). They will have Chartered membership of IOSH or an equivalent professional registration and demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development through training, research-based practice, and the expansion of their knowledge and experience.
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Significant leadership and management experience, with a proven track record of leading professional advisors and managing complex issues and transformation projects within a complex environment.
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Substantial experience in creating and maintaining effective and influential networks that collaboratively shape and deliver better health, safety, and wellbeing outcomes.
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Demonstrable understanding of the political context of service delivery and its challenges in the public sector, ensuring effective support to Elected Members, is also essential.
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An effective and values-led leadership style that inspires, motivates, and empowers. Be a confident communicator, adept at engaging with stakeholders at all levels within and outside the council.
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Thrive in a fast-paced, changing environment, including emergency situations, and will be skilled at working in ambiguity and taking initiative.
“We’re happy to talk flexible working”
Interviews will be held week commencing 10th August 2026
Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences, and qualifications, for an informal chat about the role please contact Justine Acheson at [email protected]
Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role. Please note: The minimum essential criteria in the ideal candidate section detailed above will be used if you are applying under one of our Interview Guarantee Schemes, detailed below.
About Staffordshire County Council
We are no ordinary county council:
Our Values:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.
Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.
We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.
Our benefits:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire
Our recruitment process:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities
As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
