Do you have a passion for health and safety and enjoy helping others learn, develop and work safely?
We're looking for a proactive and knowledgeable Health & Safety Advisor to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in creating and maintaining a safe, healthy and compliant environment for our staff, students and visitors while helping to shape a positive health and safety culture across the College.
As our Health & Safety Advisor, you'll work closely with managers and colleagues across the organisation, providing practical advice and guidance, delivering engaging training, supporting audits and investigations, and helping to continuously improve our health and safety management systems. You'll also contribute to business continuity and resilience planning and support a wide range of operational and strategic health and safety initiatives.
What you'll bring
You'll have experience of providing health and safety advice in a professional setting, alongside the confidence and communication skills to influence and support a wide range of stakeholders. You'll be comfortable delivering training, analysing information, managing competing priorities and developing positive working relationships across the organisation.
Essential requirements include:
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NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent)
- Experience delivering health and safety training
- Current knowledge of health and safety legislation and best practice
- Strong planning, organisation and communication skills
- A proactive approach and the ability to work independently and collaboratively.
If you're looking for a role where you can combine your technical health and safety expertise with training, coaching and influencing skills to create a safer and healthier environment for everyone, we'd love to hear from you.
About Gateshead College
At Gateshead College we’re famous for education with Employment Edge, industry inspired education that combines high quality learning with real world skills. This means giving our students the knowledge and skills to be successful in work and life and supporting them to be the best they can be.
This means putting everything we’ve got into making sure our students are the most employable and this is what makes our college such an exciting place to work.
From bringing industry expertise into the classroom and working hand in hand with businesses, to delivering the highest quality teaching and learning and supporting students to develop personally as well as professionally, we’re all about creating experiences that will set learners up for life
If you share our ambition, we’d love to hear from you.
In return we can offer a values-driven organisation and the chance to work with brilliant people who put students first. You’ll be listened to and will have opportunities to make an impact. We prioritise health and wellbeing and your work life balance will be respected.
Our inclusive culture means you’re valued for being yourself and diversity is celebrated, and our commitment to being a sustainable organisation means we always try to do business the right way to make our community better for everyone.
At Gateshead College we all have the opportunity to help our learners succeed and it’s this clear purpose and shared effort that makes us such a great place to work; we hope you think about joining.
Our Benefits:
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Generous holiday allowance of 33 days plus bank holidays
- Mental health and wellbeing support, with 24/7 access to an employee assistance programme and counselling services.
- Career average pension with the Local Government Pension Scheme.
- Travel support including subsidised on-site parking, discounted public transport scheme and cycle to work scheme.
- Retail and travel discounts.
