Health and Safety Manager

Good health and safety is not about adding more paperwork.

It is about having effective systems, understanding where the real risks are and giving people the confidence and capability to manage them well.

As our Health & Safety Compliance Manager, you'll have the opportunity to shape and strengthen how health and safety works across the College.

You'll act as our competent source of health and safety advice, developing and embedding practical management systems, helping managers take ownership of the risks in their areas and providing leaders and governors with clear assurance that our controls are working.

We're continuing to strengthen our health and safety arrangements, so we're looking for someone who can assess what we have, recognise what works, identify where we need to improve and turn that into sustainable change.

You'll work across a varied, multi-site estate and a wide range of activities, including classrooms, workshops, laboratories, construction environments, public spaces, contractors, events and new projects. The risks are different, so your approach will need to be practical, proportionate and grounded in how people actually work.

This isn't a role where health and safety sits with one specialist. Managers remain responsible for managing the risks in their areas. Your job is to give them the framework, knowledge, confidence, support and professional challenge to do that well.

Alongside developing our systems and people, you'll lead risk-based audits and assurance activity, investigate significant incidents, oversee key safety arrangements and ensure significant risks and actions remain visible and are followed through.

This role would suit an experienced health and safety professional who combines technical credibility with strong systems thinking, judgement and coaching skills. Someone who can constructively challenge at all levels, explain complex requirements simply and bring people with them as the organisation improves.