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About the Role

To provide health and safety advice and support for housing services, ensuring the London Borough of Lewisham meets its legal obligations across all relevant statutory health and safety legislation and guidance. The Housing Health & Safety Manager will provide strategic leadership and operational oversight, acting as a subject matter advisor and driving risk assessments within the housing directorate.

Responsibilities

• Provide health and safety advice and support to deliver housing services.
• Ensure compliance with legal obligations across statutory health and safety legislation and guidance.
• Provide strategic leadership and operational oversight for housing-related health and safety functions.
• Contribute to a process-based best practice approach to health & safety.
• Act as a subject matter advisor for managers within the housing directorate.
• Drive and enable suitable and sufficient risk assessment of tasks and activities within the Council housing directorate.
• Foresee requirements for developments in Health, Safety, Statutory Compliance and Welfare practices.
• Meet changing needs within the Council or in response to legal and legislative changes.
• Work collaboratively with other Health & Safety Business Partners and the Council’s Corporate Health & Safety Team.

Requirements

• Understanding of the Health, Safety and Welfare Legal and Statutory requirements, responsibilities and obligations of a large, diverse and complex organisation.
• Understanding of the Health, Safety and Welfare policies, strategies, practices, systems, audits, reviews, performance standards and targets needed to ensure compliance.
• Understanding of Local Government structures.
• Must read the applicant handbook and complete the application fully.
• Supporting statement must cover how each person specification criterion is met.

Location

• Lewisham
• Laurence House

Work Type

• Hybrid

Education Level

• Nebosh national diploma
• Graduate Member of IOSH

Salary/Compensations

• £60,633 - £62,742 per annum (P07)

Benefits

• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Generous holiday allowance
• Local Government Pension scheme
• Flexible working and family friendly policies
• Season ticket and bicycle loans
• A range of staff discounts including local subsidised gym memberships
• Supportive staff networks

About the Company

• Discover yourself in Lewisham where what you do makes a difference to our vibrant and culturally diverse communities!
• We have a rich history of welcoming people from all over the world and are proud to be recognised as the UK’s first Borough of Sanctuary, for our work in championing the rights of refugees and migrants.

Equal Opportunity

• Lewisham Council is a Disability Confident employer.
• We welcome and encourage job applications of all abilities.
• If you require any reasonable adjustments in the application or interview, please contact the lead contact on this advert.
• We will make reasonable adjustments to make sure our disabled applicants and those with health conditions are supported throughout our recruitment process.
• We support the access to work scheme.