Health & Safety Business Partner - Fixed Term

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About Us

Highways England is the new government company charged with driving forward our motorways and major A roads. Building on the successful 21 year heritage of the Highways Agency, we maintain and enhance the most important communications network in the country, the Strategic Roads Network. A network valued at just over 104 billion, which carries approximately one-third of all road traffic in England and nearly two-thirds of all heavy freight traffic.

We are responsible for modernising and maintaining the highways, running the network and keeping traffic moving. Over recent years investment in our highways has increased. This has led to advances in technology, such as smart motorways; enabling traffic to flow better. However even more is planned to be done.

Our vision is to be the worlds leading road operator which means that we need to become a high performing organisation. It`s an exciting time to start a Highways England career. With 11 billion to invest in major road improvements over the next 5 years, theres an opportunity for you to be part of something special.

For further information on Highways England, please visit our website.

Job Description

Are you a forward thinking Health and Safety Business Partner and interested in joining a dynamic new organisation? Can you work at a senior level, collaboratively, to innovate and drive improvement in safety performance?

Role purpose:

- As Health & Safety Business Partner you will be required to inspire business leaders to delivery ways of working to create a high performance health and safety culture.

- You will be required to work collaboratively with the business to ensure the organisational approach to Health and Safety is managed to a consistent high quality standard.

- You will be leveraging your key Health and Safety knowledge and understanding to partner and provide strategic and insightful challenge to business leaders and the Health and Safety team on all related matters.

- You will be shaping and influencing the health and safety strategy and agenda, partnering with senior business leaders to translate business priorities into health and safety activity which can be implemented by operational and line managers.

Responsibilities:

- Work with leadership teams to advise on health and safety matters and give health and safety a resounding and positively constructive voice in operational matters.

- Support and influence senior business leaders on health and safety matters affecting delivery of organisational targets.

- Translate business strategy and requirements into Highways Englands health and safety plans and ensure that the relevant key objectives of the 5 year Health and Safety plan are appropriately represented in the business area strategy/ plan

- Attend business unit/directorate senior leadership meetings and events and be an integral part of that team`s specialist advice and support.

- Represent the full divisional needs for health, safety, and wellbeing when attending such meetings and events.

- Concentrate on strategic issues and complex and high-risk cases, considering risks and determining solutions and initiatives.

- Broker solutions and challenge the business as appropriate to put health, safety, and wellbeing at the forefront of the business.

- Engage business leaders to advocate and demonstrate compliance with the appropriate health and safety policy and champion sustainable interventions.

You will have:

- A degree in a science or engineering discipline (Desirable)

- Relevant post graduate qualification (Desirable)

- Demonstrable experience of working at a senior management level and Directing health and safety teams (Essential)

- Demonstrable experience in managing and assuring health and safety in design or construction, preferably working for a major infrastructure asset owner or developer (Essential)

- Demonstrable experience in aligning health and safety strategy and services with business strategy and needs (Essential)

- A degree or NEBOSH Diploma in health and safety (Essential)

- Membership of a recognised professional body, e.g. CMIOSH (Essential)

- Contributing to the development of health and safety strategies and internal policy (Essential)

As part of the application process all applications must be accompanied with a current CV which will be used to assess your suitability for the role. Your CV should clearly demonstrate the required skills, experience and qualifications requested within the body of the vacancy advert.

Please note that Highways England reserve the right to close the advert before the advertised closing date should a sufficient response have been received. Therefore, please complete your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.