Health, Safety & Compliance Manager

Health, Safety & Compliance Manager  

Salary: £45,000 per annum 

Location: London (South) - Travel required to various services / areas 

Office in South Wimbledon/Croydon with routine working in all other sites in London 

Hours: 37.5, Full-time over 5 days 

Closing date: 6th May 2024

Interview Date: Ongoing throughout advertising and following 

If you are a qualified Health & Safety practitioner looking to develop your career or move to a very rewarding environment where you will see a direct link between your role and the provision of quality homes, then this may be the job for you. 

This is a key role in our client's Operations team conducting safety meetings, audits, and inspections to ensure compliance, evaluate performance, identify corrective action, and implement follow up assessments. In the role you will work with your Area Manager as a key business partner who plans and implements to optimise organisational performance in Health, Safety & Compliance. 

You will lead their small five-person in-house Building Safety / Maintenace team including three mobile maintenance operatives who provide reactive maintenance work and decorating etc over our eight hostels and some small satellite locations. You will work with your team, their service managers and their contractors/suppliers to ensure customers' needs are met and they provide safe welcoming homes for them. 

This is a hands-on operational Health & Safety management role where they need your expertise and experience to ensure the team meets or exceeds quality standards and regulatory requirements whilst at the same time ensuring the operational safety and fire safety of all sites and associated buildings. 

The job description and person specification for the role gives further information but if you have any specific questions then please get in touch. 

In return, our client can offer you:   

• Over 6 weeks holiday per annum (rising with service)   

• Ability to buy or sell additional one week holiday per annum   

• Employee paid DBS checks   

• Occupational sick pay    

• Employer contributory pension scheme   

• 4 x Life Assurance   

• Medical Cash Back Plan   

• Yulife Employee Assistance & Rewards Programme   

• Cycle to work scheme   

• Full training and induction programme    

Our client are an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including people who have experienced homelessness themselves. Equality, diversity and inclusion are key objectives for us, and they reflect this in their recruitment practices, actively seeking applications from all parts of the community regardless of race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or disability.    

You will need to have the correct right to work in the UK in place, as our client does not have a sponsorship license. 

Please ensure that your answers give a clear outline of how your application meets the criteria for this role using the included job description and person specification.   

You will need to be able to work office hours Monday to Friday and your normal work hours are 37.5 per week. 

About our client 

Our client are a leading homelessness charity in London, providing housing and support to over 1,300 people each year. 

Their aim is to help children, young people and adults who are homeless or at risk of homelessness to become independent and resilient. They believe in building on people’s strengths, aspirations and goals to help them break the cycle of homelessness. 

Our client offer a programme of support tailored to meet people’s individual needs, including housing, employment and skills training, mentoring and counselling. They work with young parents and children at risk of exclusion build the skills and resilience that can help prevent homelessness. They campaign to end street homelessness. They build affordable homes to help people move on to an independent life.