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About the Role

As a Health & Safety Standards Development Lead, you will play a key role in embedding consistent health and safety standards across the Council, fostering a culture where safety, wellbeing, and accountability are paramount. You will design and implement strategies aligned with ISO 45001 principles, review management systems, develop new standards and policies, and ensure occupational safety and health approaches are compliant and forward-thinking. This role involves working with teams across all directorates to build capability and ownership of health and safety, upskilling managers and leaders. You will drive consistency, quality, and assurance across corporate frameworks, lead on performance monitoring and audits, and champion collaboration and continuous improvement. This is an opportunity to influence corporate strategy, represent the Council, and make a tangible difference to the wellbeing of colleagues and the community.

Responsibilities

Design and implement strategies aligned with ISO 45001 principles and other best practice frameworks.
Review and enhance existing health and safety management systems.
Develop new health and safety standards and policies.
Ensure the approach to occupational safety and health is compliant and forward-looking.
Work with teams across all directorates to identify needs, build capability, and embed ownership of health and safety.
Upskill managers, supervisors, and team leaders on their responsibilities and safe systems of work.
Drive consistency, quality, and assurance across corporate health and safety frameworks.
Lead on monitoring health and safety management performance and audits.
Develop key objectives and performance measures for health and safety.
Champion collaboration and continuous improvement to share best practices and encourage innovation.
Drive change, shape corporate strategy, and represent the Council on health and safety matters.
Implement ISO 45001 and other Organisational Health and Safety Standards within the organisation.

Requirements

Extensive experience implementing ISO 45001 and other occupational health and safety management standards.
Strong track record of embedding integrated safety frameworks that drive consistency, engagement, and continuous improvement.
Substantial experience implementing these standards within large and complex organizations, ideally in the public sector.
Qualified ISO 45001 Lead Auditor with experience leading audits, producing detailed reports, and supporting services to implement recommendations.
Analytical and detail-focused with the ability to assess and prioritize health and safety risks.
Strong Health and Safety management system review experience.
Forward-thinking approach with an interest in how technology can enhance safety management.
Integrity, professionalism, and commitment to high standards.
Ability to build trust, coach others, and foster a culture where health, safety, and wellbeing are shared priorities.

Skills

ISO 45001 implementation
Occupational health and safety management standards
Integrated safety frameworks
ISO 45001 Lead Auditing
Risk assessment and prioritization
Health and safety management system review
Stakeholder influence and engagement
Coaching and mentoring
Technology integration in safety management

Location

Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6PQ

Work Type

Permanent
36 hours per week

Experience Level

Extensive experience
Substantial experience

Education Level

Occupational Health & Safety qualification at EQF Level 6 or higher (e.g., NEBOSH or NCRQ Diploma, or NVQ/SVQ Level 6)
Chartered Member of IOSH or Full Member of IIRSM

Salary/Compensations

£56,436 - £76,872 per annum
Salary negotiable depending upon experience

Benefits

Flexible working patterns
Agile working

About the Company

Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories where people use their optimism and talent to achieve more than anyone thought possible.
Westminster is home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster.
Westminster City Council is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future.
By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice.
We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve.
We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is Our Westminster Way.
As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer.

Equal Opportunity

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.
The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce.
We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM), people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities' (formally known as B.A.M.E, Black, Asian and multiple ethnic) background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit.
If you are from a Global Majority background you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job.
If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.