Health & Safety Advisor

Annual salary: up to £50,000.00

Health + Safety Advisor

Location: North Lanarkshire

Contract: Permanent, Full Time, 40 hours per week

Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 per annum, plus car allowance

Mears Group is one of the UK's leading housing and care providers, committed to making a positive difference to the communities we serve. We provide and manage homes, deliver care services and support local communities through long-term partnerships. Our people are at the heart of everything we do, and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where colleagues can thrive and develop.

About the Role:

As a Health + Safety Advisor, you will support branch management and operational teams to ensure the effective implementation of health, safety and environmental policies and procedures.

• Attend incident locations when required, including outside normal working hours, to support incident response provide health and safety advice to operational teams.
• Ensure employees and subcontractors carry out work safely and in compliance with legislation, company policies and contract requirements
• Carry out and record site inspections, identifying areas for improvement and supporting corrective actions
• Support branch management with all health and safety matters
• Attend monthly health and safety meetings with branch management teams
• Promote and develop a strong safety culture throughout the business
• Monitor and support health and safety training requirements across the branch
• Ensure adequate first aid provision is maintained
• Review and support the completion of risk assessments and safe systems of work
• Investigate accidents and incidents, producing detailed reports and recommendations
• Provide ongoing guidance and support to operational teams on health and safety best practice

Key Criteria:

• Full UK Manual Driving Licence
• NEBOSH General Certificate
• Comprehensive knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation
• Understanding of health and safety issues within the building and construction industry
• Knowledge of safe working practices and safe systems of work
• Strong IT skills including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Preferred:

• Working towards Grad IOSH

Benefits:

• Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more.
• Generous Pension Scheme
• Sick Pay
• Refer a friend scheme (total award £1000)
• Share saver scheme
• Eye test vouchers
• Employee Assistance Programme (Access to Free counselling service)
• Wellbeing service (Access to trained mental health & wellbeing advisors)
• Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Blair Drummond Safari Park, M&Ds Theme park, fully paid for including lunch
• Mears Rewards - A performance recognition platform whereby you can be rewarded in high street vouchers
• Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment
• Excellent training and development opportunities and 25 days holiday entitlement along with bank holidays.

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.

To drive a Mears vehicle, you must be aged over 21 have held your licence over 3 months and have less than 9 points.

Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant Background, Identity & Security checks before commencement of employment.

Apply below or to discuss your application further; contact:

Grace Harris (grace.harris@mearsgroup.co.uk)

If you need any help with your application process, we are here to support you. We will be accessible every step of the way.

At Mears Group, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, we are a Disability Confident employer, valuing individuality and ensuring equal opportunities for all.

We proudly support the Armed Forces Covenant and are honoured to have achieved the Gold Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) to coincide with this, we hold an Endorser Award for the Career Transition Partnership, recognising our commitment to veterans transitioning into civilian careers.

In our continued effort to promote social mobility, we invite applicants to voluntarily share their background information during the application stages to help us better understand the diverse experiences of our candidates. This is to ensure we are committed to improving social mobility. We use the Social Mobility Index to assess and enhance opportunities for individuals from diverse backgrounds. These questions are optional and will not impact your ability to apply.