HSE and Facilities Lead

We are thrilled to be working with a prestigious nationwide healthcare provider based in Hemel Hempstead. This role is an incredibly exciting opportunity that involves some field-based work at sites across the UK, with the ability for the successful candidate to manage their own diary.

The successful applicant will be responsible for maintaining the Health, Safety and environmental management systems at our clients' sites across England; ensuring all legal compliance is maintained, quality is maximised and also overseeing the on-going improvement of all the specified areas.

We are looking for Candidates from a HSE background, who have extensive experience in a role that has exposed them to maintaining the health and safety of multiple sites at once. It is also imperative that the successful individual is IOSH accredited.

This is a Monday to Friday role, with two days a week spent at our client's Hemel Hempstead offices. The remainder of the week will be field based across England at our clients various sites. The salary for this role is up to £34k (depending on experience), whilst all travel spend, food and drink and any overnight hotel costs will be covered by expenses. This is a unique opportunity that will put the successful candidate in control of their diary for the week, it would their responsibility to map out when certain sites are attended to.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Investigating accidents and ensuring all documentation is updated accordingly.
• Implementing of any new legislation relating to health and safety.
• Facilitating all forms of risk assessment (manual handling, fire risk assessments, fire prevention, COSHH).
• Completing occupational health and safety surveys.
• Completing prevention inspections on a regular basis, ensuring all records are maintained.
• Performing annual H&S audits and Quality Assurance.
• Ensuring suppliers perform in accordance with accreditations such as CHAS and Safe Contractor.
• Ensuring ISO standards are adhered to.
• Support HSE Manager in maintaining the environmental legal compliance register.
• Support the HSE Manager in maintaining NHSP ISO 14001 accreditation.
• Ensuring Trust services site risk assessments are complete each year.
• Ensure all First Aider and Fire Marshall responsibilities are carried out as per agreed policy and procedures.
• Environmental improvement: Taking the lead on ensuring our client's sites are greener, more efficient, improving the energy performance, as well as implementing a plan which ensures a more environmentally friendly and conscious approach to running their services.
• Work with Client sites to ensure our service staff feel supported on H&S audits.
• Ensure all risk assessments at corporate offices are up to date and reviewed as required.

Candidate Skills and Experience

• Must have a general management qualification.
• At least four years of Facilities management experience.
• At least two years' experience working in a Health and Safety role.
• Membership of a relevant professional body.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with people of all levels.
• Experience overseeing multiple sites.
• Experience of allocating work to team members in order to ensure all departmental tasks are completed within agreed SLA's is also desirable.

Looking to speak to people asap about this role so don't hesitate to apply and get in touch with us!

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Think Specialist Recruitment is an independent support staff recruitment agency based in Hemel Hempstead and working across the Herts, Beds and Bucks area. We specialise in permanent, temporary and contract recruitment with areas of expertise including administration, customer service/call centre, PA/secretarial, human resources, accountancy and finance, sales admin/sales support, marketing, and IT Helpdesk/IT support.