Employer: Guide Dogs
Job Title: Health & Safety Officer
Job Location: Guide Dogs National Centre, Midlands
Salary: Starting at £31,000 per annum + benefits
Hours: 35 per week
Job Description:
The Health & Safety Officer known at Guide Dogs as a Health, Safety and Business Continuity Officer helps people with sight loss to live the life they choose by supporting the day-to-day work of the Health, Safety and Business Continuity Team by providing training, support, compliance reviews and guidance for the organisation in related subjects.
For this role you’ll be working 35 hours per week, worked 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday with some hybrid working. This role has a national remit which means you will be required to travel regularly to Guide Dogs sites across the UK.
We offer a generous pension scheme, annual leave, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.
We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.
Diversity
Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity, and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality.
We encourage applications from people with disabilities as they are currently under-represented in the organisation and guarantee an invitation to interview for all applicants with disabilities who demonstrate, within their application form, sufficient evidence to meet the essential criteria for the job.
Safeguarding
Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.
Candidate requirements
To be able to fulfil this role, the skills and experience we are looking for in a potential candidate include;
Essential
For the complete list of essential and desirable criteria necessary to be successful in this role please use the website link at the bottom of this listing.
If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK. We cannot provide sponsorship for this role.
How to apply
If you have any accessibility issues, please contact our Recruitment Team on 0118 3540345 or recruitment@guidedogs.org.uk
Applications need to be made using the online application form. As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description.
The system has a one-hour time limit. We would advise you to prepare your answers separately and then copy and paste into the online form once finalised.
If any mandatory fields are missed, a pop-up box will appear at the top of the page advising which sections require completion.
Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If there is not enough space in your application form to provide this information, please ensure you upload additional documentation containing the additional detail.
Please contact our Recruitment Team on 0118 3540345 or recruitment@guidedogs.org.uk if you require any support with your application.
Application Deadline: 13 October 2024
Application Details: Please apply via the website link below
Website Link: The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association – Health & Safety Officer (talent-soft.com)