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Senior Health & Safety Adviser
Job type: Permanent
Location: Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service GMFRS Headquarters, 146 Bolton Road,
Swinton
Interviews: W/C 6th Oct 2025, and will take place face to face at Greater Manchester Fire Service Headquarters.
An exciting opportunity to join a forward thinking and pro-active health and safety team within Greater Manchester. This position is tasked with working closely and reporting into the Health and Safety Manager across the organisation and ensuring the Best in Class health and safety standards are in place. The role is predominantly focused with The Greater Manchester Fire Rescue Service (and with some wider scope across GMCA). It is an excellent opportunity for an established, Chartered health and safety professional to continue developing their career.
Your Role
Responsibilities for the Senior Health and Safety Advisor will include:
- Providing expert practical and technical leadership and advice in health, safety, and risk management measures across a multidisciplinary organisation
- Delivering new initiatives across health, safety, and wellbeing and understanding the statutory requirements to any wellbeing-related impacts.
- Assisting with the implementation and development of safety management systems, such as ISO45001
- Investigating serious health and safety related incidents, preparing reports and recommendations on corrective action and ensure compliance
- Contributing and leading on projects covering compliance and best practice across health & safety legislation
The successful Senior Health and Safety Advisor will have:
- Educated to a minimum Diploma Level 6 or Degree in Occupational Health and Safety or equivalent qualification.
- Chartered Health & Safety Practitioner with up-to-date membership and evidence of CPD. ( Or working towards completion of chartered membership).
- Significant experience of providing technical health and safety advice in a practical user-friendly manner to senior colleagues to assist with risk analysis and risk mitigation.
- Being able to manage your own workloads whilst operating in a dynamic environment, delivering multiple tasks, with regularly changing circumstances.
- Experienced in writing and implementing health and safety management systems in multi-functional organisations that are bespoke and relevant to the organisation.
- Experienced in reviewing legislation and advising on its impact across a multi-functional organisation.
- Developing and delivering H&S related training courses in a innovating and user friendly manner.
- Experienced in conducting accident investigations and reviewing accident statistics to identify pro-active interventions.
- Experience of delivering medium sized projects through to completion.
- Willingness and ability to travel across the county as and when required, within a reasonable time to meet the role demands (individuals providing their own vehicle for use will be eligible for casual car user rate.
- Holds a recognised train the trainer qualification with a dynamic and engaging approach to training delivery.
- Experienced in managing projects from inception through to completion.
- Coaching qualification
- ISO 45001/OHSAS 18001 Lead or internal auditor qualification
- Experienced in writing and implementing OHSAS 18001 Management Systems in multi-functional organisations.
- Experienced in developing and coaching less experienced safety practitioners, or people embarking on a new profession as a safety practitioner
- Local Government or related experience would be ideal.
As an employer, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is made up of a number of key Greater Manchester strategic functions and service providers including; Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS); Waste and Resources; Environment; Work and Skills; Research; Public Sector Reform; Police, Crime and Criminal Justice; Homelessness; the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub and the Commissioning Hub.
We value the diversity of our employees, and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities across Greater Manchester. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified individuals, irrespective of people's age, disability, Trans status and Non-binary identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.
To find out more about working for us please click here: https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/
Our Offer
In return for your hard work, we offer our employees a competitive package as part of our offer that you can find out more about here:
Greater Manchester Combined Authority - Home | greater.jobs
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For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licenced sponsor.
Hybrid working
This role is part of GMCAs hybrid working scheme. As part of our commitment to Build Back Fairer in Greater Manchester following the Covid-19 pandemic, we have evolved our management methods by trusting and empowering staff to deliver their work in the best way that suits the business and their individual needs, and supports health and wellbeing. Our hybrid working policy sets out a flexible approach, combining attendance at our GMP Force Head Quarters with remote working, typically from home; the location of work is primarily dictated by the needs of the business: Do what is right for you and the business on that day. If appointed to the role you will work with your manager to agree and regularly review the best working pattern for you, your team and your work.
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