About us
UCL is a world leading University comprising over 16,000 employees and 50,000 students living, working and studying in over 200 buildings across multiple sites. UCL is at the heart of the community and many of its buildings and open places are open and used by the public. The UCL estate comprises buildings of historical significance through to the latest new build, with laboratories and facilities safely undertaking world leading research. The scale, variety and complexity of UCL is unparalleled within the sector and provides a rich and complex health and safety environment.
The UCL Safety Service provides competent advice and assistance to the university to empower our UCL community to deliver world-class health, safety and wellbeing management and systems because there is nothing we do that is so important that we can't do it safely, it's the right thing to do and people matter.
About the role
We are recruiting for a Health and Safety Advisor to join our team on a 9 month Fixed-Term Contract or a 9 month Internal Secondment.
The Health and Safety Advisor will assist in the successful delivery in Safety Service projects through providing competent health and safety advice and assistance to the Senior Leadership Team and subject matter experts.
The successful candidate will support with the review of UCL's health and safety policies, standards and guidance improve the health and safety processes and procedures to ensure they are current, correct and meaningful for service users. They will take on responsibility for continuing the development of the Safety Service audit function to ensure it is effectively implemented and maintained and will develop the processes and procedures to plan, establish, implement and maintain the audit programme(s).
Additionally, they will assist with the smooth transfer from the shared drive to a SharePoint site, aligning with the Staff Intranet health and safety sites and Teams Channel and will assist with the development of a Safety Service standard operating procedure for data and reporting for the weekly and monthly senior meetings.
About you
To be successful in this role, you need to have a professional qualification at degree level in Health and Safety, this could be a NEBOSH Level 6 National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety or equivalent L6 occupational health and safety qualification. You should also hold CertIOSH membership and be working towards CMIOSH, or CMIOSH membership.
You should have experience of planning, delivering and reporting on project progress, working in small teams and engaging with stakeholders. You will have excellent IT skills including use of Microsoft applications, including Excel, Teams, SharePoint and Power BI.
The attached JD covers the criteria for the role so if you meet these criteria we would love to hear from you. Equally, if you do not meet all of these criteria, or you are a recent graduate/H&S professional who does not have much experience of working in this field as long as you hold the necessary qualifications and are proactive and have a hunger to learn, then we would also love to hear from you.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
- 41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
- Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
- On-Site nursery
- On-site gym
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
- Discounted medical insurance