Health And Safety Business Partner

#BelongWithUs

Come and join us as a focused and results driven Health and Safety Business Partner and be part of a hugely successful and friendly team.

The Role:

As a Health & Safety Business Partner, you’ll be responsible for supporting our Regional management team across the South to create and deliver Safe strategies to improve safety, health, and well-being across the business.

You’ll provide a clear understanding of our Key Safe issues for our branch network and develop a “stay safe” culture across our businesses, embedding our behaviour of "Make it Safe For Everyone"

Key Responsibilities

• Be a visible presence for the business promoting a stay safe culture
• Carry out on-site Safety assurance checks across the South whilst providing face to face coaching on safety leadership
• Advise senior stakeholders within the business in every aspect of Health & Safety - these areas include business operations, leadership behaviours, accident investigation, risk management, preventative actions & stay safe committees
• Delivering a variety of health & safety training
• Using performance measures to identify trends to improve health, safety & well-being
• Work alongside the Head of Health & Safety to develop the safety strategy and annual delivery plan

This is a remote-based Regional role, however you need to be based in the Southern Region.

You:

You’ll live and breathe our customer-first ethos, with a creative and proactive approach. You’ll enjoy working collaboratively with the wider team and you’ll be committed to acting with integrity and honesty in everything you do.

Skills and competencies

• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent or working towards
• Experience of working in a Health & Safety role where you have experienced safety culture and behavioural change programs
• Excellent communications skills in order to train and inform
• Full legal & technical understanding of Health & Safety procedures
• Continuous improvement approach
• Be able to work remotely whilst engaging with the wider team and business networks. 

It is likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Health & Safety Business Partner, Health & Safety Manager, H&S Coordinator, Regional H&S Manager, Senior H&S Manager, Environmental Health & Safety Manager - Retail, Manufacturing, Building Products, FMCG.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs if they feel they don’t have every one of the required skills. All Highbourne Group companies are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. So if you’re interested in this role but think that your previous experience doesn’t completely match - apply anyway. You could be just the person we’re looking for!

Us:

From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! We’re proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we’re super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.

Benefits Package and Cultural Environment:

• Bonus
• Enhanced Pension
• Company Car
• Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
• Life assurance
• Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
• Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each other
• Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
• Financial education and loans
• Flexible working options
• A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
• And more!

#BelongWithUs

We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it. 

We are committed to best practices in recruitment and undertake Basic Criminal Record Disclosures for candidates that are offered employment within our branches that undertake deliveries for British Gas. This check will only be undertaken after the acceptance of an offer of employment.