Health and Safety Lead

• Job title: Health and Safety Lead
• Location: Office based in Ringwood, Hampshire, with frequent travel to sites
• Hours: 37 per week, Monday to Friday
• Package: Competitive, plus Company car or cash for car allowance and excellent Colleague benefits

Churchill Estates Management (CEM) is a leading property management company specialising in independent retirement living. Under the direction of our new Property Services Director, we are now recruiting for an experienced Health and Safety Lead to join the team.

About the role

The Health and Safety Lead is responsible for providing direction, leadership and guidance on all health & safety matters across the Churchill Estates Management portfolio, ensuring that colleagues understand their accountabilities and are supported in delivering all works and tasks safely.

Alongside the Property Services team, the Health & Safety Lead is accountable for the property management of the CEM portfolio, and will ensure health and safety strategies, policies and procedures are in place, compliant with legislation, well communicated and understood.

The main responsibilities of the Health & Safety Lead include:

• Providing expert advice and support on the management of health and safety, both legislative and best practice, to colleagues, contractors and customers where required.
• Ensuring that health & safety policies, procedures and targets are in place and well communicated to colleagues.
• Ensure a proactive health & safety culture is embedded and maintained across the Company, whilst supporting changes to policy and procedure.
• Producing robust management information including regular reporting and contributing to Board reports.
• Developing and implementing training matrices and supporting with training.
• Delivering high quality proactive communications to relevant stakeholders on changes to health & safety legislation.
• Ensuring systems and procedures are in place to meet legal compliance.
• Implement and maintain accident, incident and RIDDOR escalation process, identifying corrective actions and continually driving down issues.
• Working with the Property Services team to ensure that works are risk assessed, undertaken correctly, and any disruption on site is kept to a minimum

Hours of work are Monday to Thursday 9.00am to 5.30pm and Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm.

The role requires frequent travel to our retirement developments across England and regional offices.

About you

Your experience will demonstrate a proven track record in developing, communicating and leading a health and safety strategy and associated procedures across a multi-site organisation. You will have comprehensive knowledge and understanding of current legislation with experience of working in a complex, fast paced business.

You will be professionally qualified with membership of IOSH, NEBOSH and / or advanced Health and Safety qualifications. In addition, you will be educated to a high standard in Maths and English with outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal.

As a professional ‘self-starter’, you’ll be highly motivated with the drive to make a positive difference, championing Health & Safety with Colleagues, Customers and Stakeholders. You will liaise at all levels with ease and integrity, with the ability to influence, including Board level.

Your personal qualities will evidence excellent organisational skills combined with a strategic, collaborative and pragmatic approach which will help drive our business forward.

A valid UK driving licence is essential.

Your rewards

• Competitive salary
• Cash for car or company car
• Mileage reimbursed
• Annual holiday entitlement – 25 days, plus Bank Holidays
• Day off on your birthday
• Group Personal Pension Plan
• Private medical cover for yourself and partner
• Health Screening
• Life Assurance
• Eye Care vouchers
• £200 John Lewis vouchers for expectant parents
• Colleague, Client and Land Introduction incentives
• Charity fund matching through Churchill Foundation

More about us

Churchill Estates Management is a wholly owned subsidiary of Churchill Retirement Plc. The business has grown year on year since launching in 2006 and we now manage more than 220 retirement developments, 9,000 apartments, supporting over 11,000 retired people nationally.

Our Head Office, based in Ringwood, provides vital centralised services in support of our retirement developments who in turn are supported by a team of experienced Regional and Area Managers, right across the UK.

Our service is about so much more than simply buildings and facilities management, we provide an enhanced lifestyle for our homeowners in their retirement. You will find all Colleagues of CEM extremely passionate about this, and we go above and beyond to ensure our customers enjoy their retirement, and their loved ones have peace of mind.

We are an ambitious and innovative company who have a clear growth strategy for the years ahead. Our Vision is to be the best property management company in the UK.