Safety Data Officer
Salary: £34,360
Location: Oldham (Hybrid Working 3 days per week in office)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week
Improving lives in Oldham
First Choice Homes Oldham (FCHO) has an exciting opportunity for a Safety Data Officer to join our Safety and Assurance team.
This is a key role supporting the delivery of our safety and compliance responsibilities, helping ensure that the data we rely on to keep our customers and colleagues safe is accurate, complete and trusted.
You’ll work across a range of safety and compliance areas including fire safety, gas, electrical compliance, lifting equipment, water safety and asbestos management. Through data analysis, validation and assurance checks, you’ll help us understand our performance, identify risks and provide confidence that our regulatory and legal obligations are being met.
Please see the full Job Description attached at the bottom of this page.
The impact you’ll make
You’ll play an important role in strengthening how we manage and assure safety and compliance information across FCHO.
Working closely with our compliance risk leads, Safety and Assurance Manager and Data and BI teams, you’ll help ensure that property and compliance information is accurate, up to date and supports effective decision-making.
You will:
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Analyse and validate safety and compliance data, identifying trends, gaps and areas requiring further investigation.
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Carry out regular audit and sample assurance checks of compliance certification.
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Maintain and continually update our property compliance register to reflect changes across our homes and property portfolio.
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Work with compliance risk leads to ensure our legal obligations and any exemptions are accurately recorded and evidenced.
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Help ensure property hierarchies, tenure information, portfolio groupings and compliance component data are accurate.
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Support second-line assurance activity and external quality assurance across our safety workstreams.
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Work with our Data and BI teams to support accurate KPI, performance and regulatory reporting.
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Use data to support investment planning for safety and compliance components and equipment across our homes.
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Analyse safety and compliance expenditure, helping budget managers understand trends and monitor spend.
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Help continually improve the quality, accuracy and confidence of our safety data.
Our ideal candidate
We’re looking for someone who enjoys working with data, has excellent attention to detail and understands the importance of accurate information in a safety and compliance environment.
You’ll be confident analysing information, identifying discrepancies and working with colleagues across different teams to resolve issues and improve data quality.
You’ll have:
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Strong data analysis and reporting skills.
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Experience analysing and interpreting data using Excel.
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Excellent attention to detail and a strong focus on data accuracy and integrity.
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Experience producing reports that turn complex information into meaningful insight.
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Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities.
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Experience working with stakeholders to gather information, resolve problems and improve processes.
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The confidence to work independently and use your own initiative.
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Strong communication skills and the ability to build effective relationships across an organisation.
Knowledge of building safety, property compliance or relevant legal and regulatory obligations would be advantageous, as would experience of systems such as NEC, Riskbase, TCW or Notify.
Why join FCHO?
First Choice Homes Oldham is a housing association providing safe, affordable and high-quality homes across Oldham and the surrounding areas. We own and manage over 11,500 homes and have the highest regulatory G1/V1 governance rating.
Every day, we’re proud to make a real difference in our communities.
Our work is guided by our Corporate Plan, focused on providing quality homes, excellent services and thriving communities. We care deeply about our customers, colleagues and neighbourhoods and are committed to improving lives across Oldham.
What’s in it for you?
We offer a fantastic range of benefits designed to support your wellbeing, work-life balance and career development, including:
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A salary of £34,360 per annum.
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A 37-hour working week with hybrid working options.
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30 days’ annual leave plus 8 bank holidays.
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Option to purchase additional annual leave.
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Defined contribution pension scheme with up to 10% employer contribution and salary exchange option.
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Death in service benefit.
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Healthcare cash plan covering dental, optical and physiotherapy treatments.
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Private health insurance.
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Employee Assistance Programme offering 24-hour confidential support.
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Doctorline, giving you and your family 24/7 GP access.
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Access to our colleague benefits platform, including retail discounts and wellbeing tools.
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Discounted gym membership.
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Professional subscriptions paid where essential for the role.
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Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and sick pay.
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Access to our on-site wellbeing room and café.
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Long service awards.
Interested?
If you’re passionate about using data to improve safety, strengthen assurance and help us deliver safe and compliant homes for our customers, we’d love to hear from you.
Please submit your application by 15/09/2026.
Please note we reserve the right to close this advert early should we receive a high volume of applications.
We are committed to building an organisation that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. As an equal opportunities employer, FCHO is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective colleagues and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.
We care that you have a great experience with us at FCHO. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to make your experience smoother, please let us know and we’ll do all we can.
