Health & Safety Officer

Job Title:

Health & Safety Officer

Location:

Buckfast Abbey

Contract Type:

Permanent full-time

Pay:

Competitive salary

Hours of Work:

40 hours per week, normally worked Monday to Friday

To Apply.:

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A self-supporting, single post holder, responsible for the provision of clear, consistent and quality Health & Safety support and operational activities at all levels of our organisation; thereby ensuring a safe working environment for colleagues, safe visitor experience for our visitors and guests to the site and safe environment for our monastic community.A practical and professional advisory service embracing all areas of Health & Safety management including risk assessment, workplace inspections/audits, investigation, recording and reporting, training and site security.As important as your knowledge and experience will be your style. Our organisation is diverse and complex so a flexible, creative, collaborative, solutions-focused approach, with the ability to educate, influence and challenge respectfully, will be essential. Working as a trusted advisor to our management and leadership teams, you will be positive, communicative, reactive and proactive, visible, dependable, resilient and a role model for ‘what good looks like’.

If you:

Are as a minimum IOSH and NEBOSH general certificate qualified
Have at least 3 years’ post qualification experience, preferably from a complex and diverse organisation
Have sound knowledge and understanding of Health & Safety and associated legislation relevant to Buckfast Abbey
Can evidence taking the lead in developing and maintaining Health & Safety process, procedure and systems
Can evidence promoting a positive Health & Safety culture
Can establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues at all levels and across different disciplines
Have the ability to manage technical consultants and subcontractors and our site security contractor
Have good IT skills that include expertise in Excel, Powerpoint and databases
Have integrity that aligns to our values and an empathy with the Catholic ethos of our site
Have a valid driving licence and flexibility to occasionally travel to Staffordshire to provide Health &
Safety advice to another area of the Buckfast Group that includes a care home

We want to hear from you! For more information, or to request an informal discussion about the role, please contact us: recruitment@buckfast.org.uk

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Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS)

Buckfast Abbey is committed to our responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We strive to recruit colleagues who share this commitment to safeguarding and therefore apply robust procedures to support this. All new employees are required to obtain a DBS check, at no cost to themselves.

The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, some convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.

‘Protected’ refers to convictions and cautions that will not be included on a DBS Disclosure Certificate. Guidance and criterion for filtering cautions and convictions can be found at gov.uk/government/collections/dbs-filtering-guidance

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Criminal Record

The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provides that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website. Please note any criminal convictions except those 'spent', or otherwise ‘protected’, under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. If none, please state.

Data Protection Statement

All the information collected in this form is necessary and relevant to the performance of the job applied for. We will use the information provided by you on this form for recruitment purposes only.

The Company will treat all personal information confidentially and in line with current data protection legislation. We rely on the lawful basis of the Data Protection Act 2018 (General Data Protection Regulation) to process the information provided by you in this form.

Should you be successful in your application, the information provided, and further information which will be gathered at the relevant time, will be subsequently used for the administration of your employment and in relation to any legal challenge which may be made regarding our recruitment practices.

If you require more information on how we use the information you have provided, please email recruitment@buckfast.org.uk to ask to see our privacy notice.

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I confirm that the above information is complete and correct and that any untrue or misleading information will give my employer the right to terminate any employment contract offered.
I understand that any offer of employment is subject to the organisation being satisfied with the results of series of relevant checks including references, eligibility to work in the UK, criminal convictions, probationary period, and a medical report (in line with the operation of the Equality Act 2010).
I agree that the organisation reserves the right to require me to undergo a medical examination. (Should we require further information and wish to contact your doctor with a view to obtaining a medical report, the law requires us to inform you of our intention and obtain your permission prior to contacting your doctor).

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