Health and Safety Manager
This is a Permanent, Full time - 4 Day working week trial vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
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About You
Our ideal candidate is committed to providing the highest standard of Health and Safety support to our colleagues, tenants, and partners. You will have well rounded and relevant experience in Corporate and Landlord Health and Safety and a track record of embedding a safety first culture.
You enjoy collaborating with others to ensure success and think strategically, taking a corporate view. You’re someone who champions their team’s successes and possesses strong leadership skills, with the ability to support and coach the team where necessary.
What You’ll Do
In this role, you’ll play a large part in ensuring that we have robust and best practice risk management and safety procedures and precautions in-place and complied with across MVH. You will take the lead in managing our Occupational Health & Safety Management System (OHSMS) and our ISO45001 accreditation.
You’ll be a dedicated port-of-call for all H&S matters within MVH and will provide a range of support including compliance with all H&S legislation and regulations, investigations, and will be responsible for taking appropriate action on adverse events, accidents and near misses.
You’ll conduct and review routine audits, inspections and be responsible for implementing all appropriate changes to support MVH to keep our workplace, colleagues and homes as safe as possible.
As a strong leader, you’ll embed H&S practices, policies & procedures across the teams in a range of methods including designing H&S training programmes, communicating changes in legislation, and lead and facilitate effective H&S committees, tenant safety forums and any other safety related groups.
You’ll be an active member of our Strategic Leadership Team and will be required to contribute to the constructive management of our mutual.
How to Apply?
You will need to submit your CV and provide a supporting statement (maximum of 2 pages) as to why you are the person we would want to work with and what you can bring to the role, organisation and most importantly the difference you can make for our tenants. Please ensure you email this through to recruitment@mvhomes.org.uk
Please review the appropriate job description to ensure that you can tailor your CV and supporting statement accordingly.
Closing date for applications is 14th May 2024 at 14:00.
We are not looking to work with recruitment agencies in regards to this role, and politely request that all agencies do not make contact at this time.
Our Mutual
As well as having a great culture, we offer a range of excellent benefits. These include generous annual leave and pension contributions, family friendly working arrangements, exciting career progression opportunities, 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme and Happy Me, our very own initiative to support your wellbeing and help you to thrive.
There’s more – we’re trialling a 4 day working week exploring the possibility of balancing a shorter working week with higher productivity and improved services to tenants. So, 100% of our services, in 80% of the hours, for 100% of the salary.
You can be proud to be part of an organisation who’s passionate about giving back in every aspect of what we do. We’re an anchor investor, proudly supporting our communities and the people who live in them.
We are committed to our responsibilities as a landlord, business and mutual in every way. We are passionate about playing our part in tackling the climate emergency, and our new Climate Strategy clearly sets our commitments, actions and goals to do this.
Joining our mutual will give you the opportunity to become a member and have your say. Our Chief Executive, Michelle Reid, is hugely committed to tenants and employees working together to grow and shape our mutual. To meet our CEO and to get a better sense of who we are, grab yourself a cuppa and click here.
Diversity & Inclusion
We don’t like to complicate things at MVH. If you are driven to perform, you’ll fit right in, it’s as simple as that really! We believe people’s differences are what make them great and actively seek out multiple approaches and perspectives. We’re passionate about building a culture where everyone feels comfortable bringing their authentic, whole self to work.
We’re committed to the principles of equality and diversity, and we want to be a mutual for everyone. We have been awarded the prestigious Tai Pawb “Quality in Equality and Diversity” accreditation, but we know that we still have work to do. People from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities are currently under-represented in our mutual. We actively encourage people from these communities to apply for this and other roles within the organisation. We operate the Rooney rule and guarantee to interview all under-represented people who meet our essential criteria.
About Us
We are all about people, communities and delivering high quality affordable services. We are the first tenant and employee mutual housing association in Wales. The principles of mutuality guide what we do, from being a living wage employer and living rent landlord, to the mixed representation from tenants and employees we have within our uniquely designed governance structure. We are a successful organisation with great housing services, we have sound finances and believe in being efficient. You can read our latest Annual Report, Democratic Body Report to Members, and Value for Money statement by clicking here.
Our Benefits
Merthyr Valleys Homes is a great place to be! Find out about all our great benefits by clicking here.
Working at MVH
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