Are you passionate about driving health and safety excellence in a dynamic and forward-thinking organisation? Are you ready to drive and deliver safe working practices, a safer workplace, and behaviours where people feel protected and valued? Then this could be the role for you!

We truly care about our people, and we aim to be an exemplar housing association when it comes to health, safety, and wellbeing. We’re on the lookout for an exceptional new Health and Safety Manager to drive, innovate, inspire, and deliver excellence across our diverse portfolio, with a focus on our repairs, maintenance, and construction teams.

About Yorkshire Housing 

You can probably already tell that we’re not your typical housing provider! With around 20,000 homes (and more in the pipeline), we’re on track with our growth plan to build 8,000 new homes across Yorkshire.

We’re dedicated to creating exceptional customer experiences along the way and are on a mission to build a culture that prioritises excellence, innovation, and customer obsession. You’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of health and safety, working alongside a passionate team to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people and communities. If you’re looking for a role where you can deliver the highest standards, build great behaviours and cultures and you want to make a difference, this is it.

What will I be doing? 

Reporting to the Head of Health, Safety and Compliance, you’ll be at the forefront of fostering a strong health and safety culture, working collaboratively with our repairs, maintenance and construction teams initially to ensure the highest standards of safety for our colleagues, contractors, and customers. Whether it’s through developing safety systems, running training sessions, promoting accident/incident prevention, behavioural safety or investigating incidents, you’ll be the go-to person for all things health and safety. We’ve broken down some key responsibilities here:

Lead and Innovate: Develop and implement industry-leading health and safety management systems, ensuring safe systems of work, risk assessments, and compliance are in place and actively understood and monitored.

Collaborate and Coach: Work closely with teams across Yorkshire Housing, providing expert guidance on health and safety best practices, while shaping a proactive safety culture through training, coaching, and engagement.

Audit and Assure: Create and deliver a robust audit and assurance programme, driving continuous improvement and ensuring compliance across the Group.

Investigate and Prevent: Lead investigations into accidents, incidents, and safety concerns, while working with teams to develop prevention programmes and minimise risks.

Drive Culture Change: Champion health and safety excellence, engaging staff at all levels to cultivate positive behaviours and attitudes towards safety.

What do you need from me?

• Proven experience in health and safety management within technical environments such as social housing, residential property, construction, or maintenance.
• Strong knowledge of CDM regulations, contractor management, and health, safety, and environmental management systems (ISO45001, ISO14001).
• Exceptional communication, problem-solving skills, and project management skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience in developing and delivering health and safety training, inspections, and risk management processes.
• A ‘can-do’ attitude with attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.

It would also be great if you hold a Health and Safety degree, NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent with CMIOSH and even more of a bonus if you have a Level 4 Certificate in Housing or the willingness to work towards it. Take a look at the Role Profile which has lots more details!  

What’s in it for you… 

This a full-time permanent role with a salary of £54,792 plus a £2,000 car allowance per annum, 25 days annual leave (rising annually to 30 days) plus Bank Holidays. 

We offer a reward package to suit everyone. At YH, you can claim back for prescriptions, eye tests and more with our cash plan, make the most of a variety of retail discounts and take advantage of our pension scheme where we’ll match your contributions up to 9%, just to name a few.

Our people’s health and wellbeing are one of our top priorities, and you can make the most of our readily available wellbeing support package. This includes access to a library of free fitness classes, as well as an instant My GP service and free counselling sessions with a trained professional.

Now you’re really interested?

At YH, we’re actively building a working environment that’s inclusive as well as diverse, where everyone can contribute their best work and be themselves. We believe difference is what makes us stronger and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting communities we serve, so we welcome and encourage candidates from all backgrounds for this role. 

We know that not all candidates will meet every single requirement. If you’re experience looks a little different from what we’re looking for and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you so please apply!

If you require any additional support with your application, or have any further questions please contact our fab recruitment team via email at recruitment@yorkshirehousing.co.uk 

The fine print  

The closing date for applications will be the 30^th of September 2024, but we might close it early if we get lots of great candidates, so don’t hang around.