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Hemel Hempstead, Leeds, London
Vacancy ID:
4544
Position
Finance
Careers Site Advertising End Date
06 Aug 2025
Vacancy Type
Fixed Term/Secondment
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About The Role

Are you an experienced Health, Safety & Environmental Manager who is able to use your extensive safety knowledge and experience and who is looking to work in an interesting and influential role for a 12 month fixed term contract. If yes, we would love to hear from you!

The role will be responsible for maintaining and improving the Health, Safety and Environmental management systems (and their key supporting business systems) to ensure legal compliance is maintained, quality is maximised whilst also reducing Business risk. The individual is also responsible for ensuring that all legal compliance, corporate and certifications are managed and continually improved and that our Social Value performance is evidenced.

Responsibilities:

  • Investigating of accidents and ensure all documentation is updated.
  • Implementing of any new legislation relating to health and safety.
  • Facilitating all forms of risk assessment - manual handling, fire risk assessments / fire prevention, COSHH.
  • Completing occupational health and safety surveys.
  • Providing health and safety awareness training.
  • Managing the site inspection programme for both NHSP properties and Trust Services offices
  • Performing annual H&S, Environmental, Quality Assurance, Physical Security and Social Value audits
  • Be the operational lead for monthly Internal audits relating to Environmental
  • Be the point of contact for all necessary reviews of supplier submissions to our Contracts & Supplier Relationship Management system
  • Ensuring ISO standards are adhered to
  • Responsible for delivering ISO 14001 route to compliance program
  • Responsible for our Social Value data & reporting programme
  • Lead on regular Quality, Environmental and Social Value reviews
  • To support the Bids team with the development of all ESG and H&S bid submissions.
  • To be the Facilities lead on all property projects and be responsible for the management of ongoing supplier relationships for these properties

Accountabilities:

  • To maintain NHSP ISO 14001 accreditation
  • Operational ownership of NHSPs Property Estate and the relating strategy
  • To further develop our Social Value reporting programme
  • To ensure Trust services site risk assessments are complete each year
  • Ensure all First Aider and Fire Marshall responsibilities are carried out as per agreed policy and procedures.
  • Compliance: Achieve Health and Safety audit scores of 100% across our corporate offices
  • Environmental improvement: Taking the lead at NHSP towards a greener, more efficient estate including energy performance improvements as well as implementing a plan which ensures a more environmentally friendly and conscious approach to running our services.
  • Manage the development and implementation of environmental management systems within the organisation by identifying, solving and alleviating environmental issues, such as pollution and waste treatment, in compliance with environmental legislation.
Please note - This role is a hybrid role, based at either our Hemel Hempstead or Leeds office. 

About The Candidate

We are looking for someone with the following skills and experience:

Qualifications and Knowledge:

Essential

  • NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety
  • NEBOSH Environmental Awareness or equivalent
  • IOSH Managing Safely

Desirable

  • NEBOSH Environmental Certificate or equivalent (or working towards)
  • Environmental Management System/ISO 14001 Auditor qualification
  • NEBOSH HSE Introduction to Incident Investigation

Experience:

  • Health, Safety & Environmental Management experience
  • Facilities &/or Property Management experience
  • Experience of having driven the process for successfully achieving NHSP ISO 14001 accreditation in your organisation
  • Membership of a relevant professional body

About Us

In return for your commitment, we will offer you some fantastic benefits:

  • Generous annual leave allowance - 27 days per year, plus bank holidays
  • A commitment to talent management & development
  • Values Star of the Month! -  Our star of the month award enables you to recognise colleagues or teams that have gone the extra mile and they could win £100 worth of shopping vouchers
  • Pension – We’ll contribute up to 10% towards your pension if you join our stakeholder pension scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Group Income Protection
  • Wellbeing Programme
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Employee Engagement & discounts platform

About Us:

NHS Professionals (NHSP) run the largest NHS flexible staff bank, placing highly skilled temporary workers in NHS Trusts to meet their short, medium and long-term needs. Uniquely we are owned by the Department of Health and Social Care and we therefore reinvest any surplus we make directly back into the NHS.

NHSP is committed to being an inclusive employer of choice, working with a variety of partner organisations which provide valuable insights and best practice. We are accredited as a Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute and recognised as one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work. As part of our ongoing commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, we have been awarded the  Race Equality Code Quality Mark and are a Disability Confident Employer alongside being signatories of the Menopause Pledge and Mental Health at Work Commitment.


Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)

As part of our commitment to EDI, as well as having a number of related staff support networks and calendar of activities, NHS professionals is also working to the following aims:
  • To ensure we become an inclusive recruiter of choice, encompassing a fully diverse workforce, which truly reflects society
  • To proactively embed the EDI agenda, in a meaningful way, in all that it does 
  • To ensure we create a psychological safe environment in which everyone can thrive and be at their best 
  • To actively support and Include disabled people as part of our commitment to the Disability Confident scheme, including offering an interview to applicants to meet the minimum criteria and choose to apply under the scheme.
We particularly welcome applications from people from minority groups and will provide support to ensure an equitable process.
 
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