Health & Safety Advisor (Maternity Cover)

Health & Safety Advisor

Contract Type: Fixed Term, Full Time – Maternity cover for up to 12 months

Hours of Work: 35 hours per week

Location: Agile – Trafford House

Salary: £34,725 - £37,007

Closing date: Friday 8th May

Interviews: TBC – Mid May

At MSV Housing, we’re committed to giving our customers safe, secure homes and brilliant services - and our H&S Advisor plays a huge part in making that happen.

We’re looking for a confident, hands-on safety pro who can keep us on track with our statutory responsibilities, support colleagues, and help champion a strong health & safety culture across the whole organisation. Whether you’re already an experienced advisor or stepping up from an assistant role with the right skills and drive, we’d love to hear from you.

This is a maternity cover role for up to 12 months, and you’ll be working closely with our Health & Safety Manager, supporting everything from accident investigations to training, audits and compliance. If you’re practical, people focused and love seeing safe systems come to life, this role is for you. 

What our H&S Advisor does: 

Here’s what you can expect to get stuck into:

• Support the delivery of MSV’s Health & Safety arrangements and ensure our legal duties are always met. 

• Help drive a positive, proactive safety culture across all teams and contractors. 

• Contribute to risk assessments, safe systems of work, COSHH and other compliance checks. 

• Support and deliver H&S training where appropriate. 

• Monitor and report on H&S performance and support managers with follow up actions. 

• Oversee accident/incident management, guide low risk investigations and identify trends 

• Keep the lone worker system running smoothly and resolve any usage issues. 

• Manage PPE processes and occupational health surveillance activity. 

• Carry out workplace safety inspections and recommend improvements. 

• Support DSE assessments and other day to day safety processes. 

• Maintain statutory H&S records and support audit requirements. 

• Provide guidance to the H&S Assistant when needed. 

What we’re looking for:  

We’d love to hear from you if you have: 

• A NEBOSH Certificate in Health & Safety (or equivalent). 

• Commitment to working toward a NEBOSH Diploma or NVQ Level 5. 

• Experience working within a Health & Safety environment. 

• Strong knowledge of relevant H&S legislation and good practice. 

• Confident communication skills and able to influence, support and advise. 

• Brilliant organisation skills and great attention to detail. 

• Experience with risk assessments, accident investigations or audits. 

• A collaborative, supportive approach and the ability to work proactively. 

• A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel across the Northwest 

• If you’ve been involved in policy development, that’s a bonus but not essential. 

What we offer:

We’ll make sure you’re well supported and rewarded, including:

• Agile working with full home working kit provided

• 33 days holiday plus bank holidays (with a holiday buy scheme!)

• Up to 10% matched pension

• Company funded health cash plan

• Enhanced sick pay

• Mental health, wellbeing and counselling support

• Life assurance

• Ongoing learning & development

• Supportive, inclusive, community focused culture with thriving employee networks

We’re passionate about equality, inclusion and making MSV a brilliant place to work and we warmly welcome applicants from all backgrounds.  MSV are committed to Equality and Inclusion all applications are scored against the essential criteria of the role; however, we encourage candidates to submit an ammonised CV if they can do so.

MSV are also committed to supporting you to balance work and life, including with any caring or parental responsibilities you might have, and can discuss flexible working options and wellbeing support available facilitate this.

For more information about the role please visit our careers page where you will find a candidate pack and apply for the role.  https://www.msvhousing.co.uk/careers/job-vacancies/

If you want to chat informally about the role, feel free to reach out to Jo Shelley, H&S Manager at jo.shelley@msvhousing.co.uk

Interviews are expected to take place in mid-May; however, they may be conducted on a rolling basis throughout the recruitment period. The vacancy may close early if a suitable candidate is appointed, so we strongly encourage applicants to apply as soon as possible.

We’re passionate about inclusion and we’d love to hear from people from diverse backgrounds for this role.

If you are not sure whether you meet our requirements for this role but want to apply. Go ahead. We will decide whether you are what we are looking for.