Principal Health and Safety Adviser - Waverley Court - EDN28684

Job Description

Corporate Services

Principal Health and Safety Adviser
Waverley Court

Salary: £50,550 - £60,506
Hours: 36 per week

The City of Edinburgh Council’s Health and Safety Team provide professional health and safety advice, training and auditing for the City of Edinburgh. The experienced team produce clear policy, guidance, training and support across the wide range of Council Services. The team also audit the application of established health and safety arrangements to provide organisational assurance.

You will be joining this busy dynamic team of health and safety professionals at an exciting time, as the team seek to drive a new health and safety strategy and building on previous success. This role offers a unique opportunity to support the management of risk in our Capital city and be part of delivering further transformational change.

Successful candidates must have a recognised Health and Safety qualification and be a Chartered member of IOSH or equivalent. Management/supervisory experience is required along with significant experience working in a multidisciplinary organisation, such as local government.

To discuss this opportunity, please contact Head of Service, Chris Lawson chris.lawson@edinburgh.gov.uk

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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