Health and Safety Officer

We are recruiting for a Health and Safety Officer who will be responsible for providing support and assistance to the Estates, Health and Safety Manager in the delivery of all health and safety and estates activities. This will include advising managers and employees on health and safety issues, administration, completion and review of health and safety risk assessments, management reporting and records management.

The successful candidate will assist in the provision of professional advice and guidance to employees on managing Health and Safety and discharging their responsibilities to ensure safe working environment and practice. In addition, deliver an excellent estate maintenance service to our internal and external customers.

You will have considerable experience in a similar role and have a NEBOSH Certificate for Occupational Safety and Health.

The ideal candidate will have experience in a similar role including maintaining maintenance records, statutory Health and Safety information, raising purchase orders and receipting when the goods / service has been received. Completion of DSE assessments, risk assessments and initial incident investigation.

You should have a full UK driving licence with less than six penalty points.

We are a unique Estates, Health and Safety team who provides shared services to the Care Inspectorate and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) at the Compass and Quadrant Houses, Dundee.

We are the national regulator and scrutiny body responsible for providing assurance and protection for people who experience care services, their families, carers and the wider public, as well as supporting delivery partners to improve the quality of care for people in Scotland. Our vision is that people across Scotland experience high quality care that meets their needs, rights and choices.

We are a scrutiny body that supports improvement. We inspect individual care services and we also work with other scrutiny bodies to inspect the social care and social work services people are experiencing in their local areas.

Our desire is to achieve an effective and balanced way of working, that enables us to meet organisational needs and achieve a work-life balance that promotes wellbeing and collaboration opportunities. Our hybrid working policy gives you the flexibility to mix working from home with attendance at your base office and other work locations, spending no more than 60% of your working time working from home, measured over a 4-week period.

Starting Salary

Please bear in mind that new entrants start on the grade minimum for the role. However, we have a generous benefits package which you will find on our website.